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Part #s for rear spring control arms and track rods?
Terminologies for suspension parts are insanely varying which causes a lot of difficulties locating required parts. Anyway...
Car has regular [not airmatic] suspension. My question/issues/concerns lie only with the REAR suspension.
2043520027 - bushing for the rear spring control arm to wheel carrier/bearing. Here's a picture of the spring arm as a visual in case my terminology isn't correct:
2223520865 - Subframe bushing for inner spring control arm.
Lastly (hopefully) are bushings (inner and outer) for the "track rod" (seems the ambiguous terminology of "control arm" is also used). EPC doesn't show a part number for bushings, just the entire part. Here's the "track rod":
Are there posting guidelines? If you can flag down a moderator to consolidate then I'd be happy to post any follow-ups to that thread. As it is I'm thinking I'm out of questions (these parts are the only remaining ones I have questions on).
Back to what parts are and are not available (and what the terminologies are)...
Per the diagram you provided, item #92 in that drawing shows part number A 204 352 00 27 with this description:
*** BALL JOINT
SPRING CONTROL ARM TO WHEEL BEARING
And on the track rods (is that the proper name to use?), I can't see paying $630 for a set. There are others out there, some are likely ones I wouldn't touch. Meyle (a name I'm familiar with from my VW world) has some and they're roughly $180 for the two (one side appears to be on sale at/from ECS Tuning).
Last edited by RA030523; Feb 25, 2023 at 10:36 PM.
This is for steel -NOT ALUMINUM- rear spring control arms.
MB doc ar35.20-p-0118r specifically shows the procedure to replace the spring control arm bushing that goes to the wheel carrier. It specifically states that the bushing for the aluminum spring arms are NOT replaceable.
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