I had this problem about two weeks ago and I need an urgent fix for it because I need the car to go on vacantion(I left home last week Monday and came back today).Since I live in Romania(Europe) and the shipping was more than 2 weeks time I removed the ball joint.Inside I found a lot of dirt and the conical upper bush of the ball joint was totally missing.I inspected the control arm - ok, I went to a specialized shop, made one and mounted it back.I had about 1k KM wit it and runs perfect
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