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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stephen" data-source="post: 1811" data-attributes="member: 120"><p>i began to worry when my friend's 3.5 yr old (only 39k kms) E46 318i 2.0 's control arm bushing was apparently so bad that it affected the lower control arm as well and those two things needed to be changed at AB ... the $ bill was astonishing!!Mine is less than 3 yrs old but 55k kms and the bushings have not been changed. Seems these original rubber bushing needed to be changed every 30k kms. True ah? Why didnt AB change for me then?In my friend's case, he does a lot of traffic jam driving and was told that this probably caused the heat from brakes and engine to wear out the rubber bushings.So can this Powerflex bushing of polyuretrane type (and not rubber) perform better? Heard some stories of this type cracking after only one week whilst generally it last very long. Probably this case was because of defect product.</p></blockquote><p></p>