My dealer quoted me $750 to replace right lower control arm due to bad bushing. Stumbled on it when trying to debug my stupid spring guard knock. Haynes says one side can be done w/o dropping subframe, the other can't. Left is the really bad one to do it yourself, but I imagine that the dealer was planning on dropping my subframe anyway (scam artits). Since they have to drop everything to do the left, and you apparently need both, you might need to bite the bullet and get them done.
BTW, the right lower control arm only runs about $50-$60 for my 98, so you are looking at about $700 in labor. And your control arms will run about $300. Sorry for the bad news.
