blu_fuz
New Member Classroom vulture
My brother's (Danny SLVRFRST) '99 T-RED has needed some suspension and misc work done to keep it from eating up front tires. He got a quote to 'replace' one pair of control arm bushings, and 'replace' the ball joint on the other front control arm for like $350. Shops around here are doing pretty shotty work, very expensive, and often it seems like the work doesn't last. There has been work done on these parts once already over a year ago so it's frustrating to have these issues linger......
Danny wanted me to work on it because he knows he will get the best parts and someone to work on it that doesn't have their head up their a$$. The money is better spent on getting the right parts, and the most best parts he could.
Its been a busy summer for me, but I said I would work on it. He brought the car over and left it for a couple weeks while he purchased and had all the parts shipped to my house.
While waiting for parts I had to move the cars around a few times and my mother-in-law didn't see that Danny's car was parked across the street from the end of our driveway and managed to crush the drivers door in when she backed out in her car.
Work hasn't even started on the car and now we have MORE work to do. We tracked down another '99 T-RED door 7 hours away in Ann Arbor Michigan.
John and Steve met up with us where we found the donor door and we stuck around and had lunch with them, had a great time! Excellent mini meet.
Got home late but managed to get the donor door on the car and lined up best we could. Still needs a little gap adjustment but otherwise its working good.
Here is the list of parts and work that needed to be done after the door incident:
-new front/rear sway bar endlinks
-new front/rear sway bar bushings
-new front OEM control arms with ball joints
-new idler pulley
-new tensioner pully
-used 30k mile Koni front/rear shocks
-used 30k mile Ground Control front/rear coilovers
-new front/rear strut mounts
-used BAER front brake kit
-used stainless brake lines
-new OEM rear calipers
-new 6mm front wheel spacers
-new 215/45/17 tires
Danny wanted me to work on it because he knows he will get the best parts and someone to work on it that doesn't have their head up their a$$. The money is better spent on getting the right parts, and the most best parts he could.
Its been a busy summer for me, but I said I would work on it. He brought the car over and left it for a couple weeks while he purchased and had all the parts shipped to my house.
While waiting for parts I had to move the cars around a few times and my mother-in-law didn't see that Danny's car was parked across the street from the end of our driveway and managed to crush the drivers door in when she backed out in her car.
Work hasn't even started on the car and now we have MORE work to do. We tracked down another '99 T-RED door 7 hours away in Ann Arbor Michigan.
John and Steve met up with us where we found the donor door and we stuck around and had lunch with them, had a great time! Excellent mini meet.
Got home late but managed to get the donor door on the car and lined up best we could. Still needs a little gap adjustment but otherwise its working good.
Here is the list of parts and work that needed to be done after the door incident:
-new front/rear sway bar endlinks
-new front/rear sway bar bushings
-new front OEM control arms with ball joints
-new idler pulley
-new tensioner pully
-used 30k mile Koni front/rear shocks
-used 30k mile Ground Control front/rear coilovers
-new front/rear strut mounts
-used BAER front brake kit
-used stainless brake lines
-new OEM rear calipers
-new 6mm front wheel spacers
-new 215/45/17 tires
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