New ball joints needed at 30,000 miles?
We have a 2012 Ram 2500. Just turned 30,000 miles. Brought it in for a recall and oil change, and found that both upper and lower ball joints are shot. Does that seem right? We only haul our 5th w...
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2500 Grunt wrote:I agree. One local tire store chain here thinks everybody should get new ball joints. Bring it to a real front end shop and see what they say.
Find out what the allowable spec's are for the ball joints(on your own)and ask them what kind of reading they got on their dial indicator/gauge or whatever they use. You can't just use a pry bar and see them move 1mm up and down and say they are wore out. Also, ask them to show you if you still don't feel comfortable with it. I had a smaller shop in town tell me that mine were wore out then I took it to Dodge and they said no they are not.
B.O.
