Hi All,

I have a quick run down on the comment sections and I have some points to add also.
First it's better for you to change the whole arms reasons being.
1) Lower arm L/R might not be in good shape after some mileage. The arms most probably bend in a way you don't notice and this slight misalignment can cause your tires to wear out faster.
2) Lower arms that are slightly out of shape were due to uneven bumpy road, pot holes, speed breaker, accident, and your driving habit.
3) It's not worth to change just the bushing regardless of the labor cost. When your arms misaligned/ dented/ crooked you won't get good alignment with new bushing. It's forever out of shape/ not within stock tolerance specification. Imperfect arms alignment in regards to bushing will cause your bushing to die faster.
4) It's not worth to change just the bushing knowing the poor quality job any local workshops could provide. Most often they do not have the right tool to do the right job. They use their own way and that aggravate the misalignment severity.
5) DO NOT BUY aftermarket/ imitation/ fake parts and stick with only genuine parts (OEM we called it, original equipment mfr.). You will be grateful with your decision when the after market parts last you only couple of months to a year while the genuine part that cost maybe 2 to 3 folds last you for 6 years and above or maybe more. You don't want the "krok krok" noise to play again in your lower arms in couple of months time.
6) All mechanics will offer you after market/ imitation parts simply due to dirt cheap unit price and the much higher profit they reap from selling you those. They can't make good profit out of genuine parts because genuine parts unit price are fixed by dealers (most time) and they can't play with the figure. The genuine price is known publicly.
7) Stop wasting your time asking around mechanics whether the parts they offer are genuine. Go to any local dealer and get the 100% genuine parts for the dumbass mechanics to install. You can never go wrong with genuine parts.
8) Get your stabilizer link inspected and replaced too if you can afford it. Most probably it is due too when your lower arms give way + change the bushing.
9) Do not listen to what bush material is superior to what bush material, go get a genuine bush or better still the whole arm.
10) 10 times you ask a mechanics how is the quality of the aftermarket parts 10x they will answer "OK, not bad, i receive no complain so far so it must be good." Go screw them cuz my results proven 10x wrong otherwise with imitation.

I used to drive Proton Waja couple of years back, and my Waja basically half of it made in China/ Taiwan already because i went for cheap imitation parts without considering the damage whenever parts give way and at the end it gave me more problems (all the problems you name it) and an endless money pit. I could have save tonne of money if i go for genuine.

This post has been edited by kennethhoo: Sep 15 2020, 04:09 PM