I'm looking for some advice. Posted are 2 pics the first one is the driver's side rear lower control arm. Looks straight.





2nd pic is the passenger side rear lower control arm. It seems a bit bowed. My question is how bad does it look and do you think it needs replacing?

 

did you hit a curb? Mine is about the same condition as yours.. and I had it rebent

 

Put a straight edge on it and check. It does look bent. Its gonna throw off your toe in the rear on that side. You could just adjust the toe to compensate but I would get a new arm.

 

i didn't hit anything that woulda caused the arm to bend like that. No curbs or nothing either. ...just the occasional curb rash from parrallel parking errors

 

Did you have it rebent and it looks like mine, or did it look like mine, then you had it re-bent?

 

actually it would throw off camber but important either way.


Judging by the rust, could someone have jacked the car up by that control arm?

 

Body shop could have possibly done it, but happened so long ago, that I can't prove it was them.

Anyone got a spare one laying around?

 

^why was it at a body shop? where you hit? what kind of damange?

 

the paint is missing off the bottom side so something definitely pushed a bend in it, the bend is at the endlink mounting point and it's likely pre-loading the rear swaybar

it needs to be replaced, you could try Mazmart in the Vendor section for a used one