I'm going to be tasked with some upper arms on a Q5 shortly, its a 2018 model but has been in the rust belt it entire life. Looks like instead of a normal A arm and a single ball joint, its 2 arms with ball joints that are held on by a pinch bolt. Germans...
Tons of people are saying either you get lucky and done with the job in 30 minutes or you are busy all day. That pinch bolt looks like it can be a pain. Not sure if heating up the aluminum spindle makes the most sense.
Has anyone here dealt with this? Any tips?
Also, do we do these as an entire set, like the driver side and passenger, or just the broken bushing side? They look fixed position so no alignment should be needed.
Tons of people are saying either you get lucky and done with the job in 30 minutes or you are busy all day. That pinch bolt looks like it can be a pain. Not sure if heating up the aluminum spindle makes the most sense.
Has anyone here dealt with this? Any tips?
Also, do we do these as an entire set, like the driver side and passenger, or just the broken bushing side? They look fixed position so no alignment should be needed.