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I doubt he had his car in for regular service it looks like the ball joint and boot never saw any grease after it left the factory

for those of you that haven't been to pa heres a tip in a lot of places the roads are crap and durning the winter pa uses a mixture of salt cinders and mud which is basically like coating your car in gooie acidic cement it is murder on even the toughest of steel

Hell I have had ball joints go bad at 20k you expecting a major suspension part to last 140K sorry bud thats now how it works

@JRP3 LoLwat no ball joints usually are kaput at about 50k on modern vehicles about the only time you can see more then that is if you do nothing but steady highway driving as for the corriosion it simply looks like it wasn't greased regularly and I have seen far far worse ones

ok so I had to register and comment on this after reading it on ./ last I checked control arms and ball joints where a normal 'wear-item' on most vehicles I have worked on 70k on a stock part is pretty frigging good and as others have stated the op is a idiot he had plenty of warning that it...