Hi Gents, I started to suffer some weird handling on the front of my A6 so I ran the car down to the garage I use so I could borrow a ramp, soon saw the trouble it was the Banana arm bushes as named in the trade, A.K.A. front rear lower control arm, anyway managed to get a deal on Lemforder replacements they must be o.e. as someone had ground most of the VAG numbers off of the castings, I assumed that the whole arm and balljoint must be knackered so I butchered the balljoint boots with a forked joint splitter only to find the balljoints themselves were perfectly serviceable even after 150, 000 + miles, on reflection I could have got away with fitting power flex bushes on the inners, hey ho time is money, but I thought I would publish this as they reckon these are a weak point on Audis, so if some monkey MOT tester tells you they are gone make sure they look like this before you launch your wallet at them.

Steve

Thanks for sharing Steve. 

Think the bushes are a week spot on all A6 models. I know the bushes go in the arms of the c5 too. 

12 hours ago, Steve Q said:

Thanks for sharing Steve. 

Think the bushes are a week spot on all A6 models. I know the bushes go in the arms of the c5 too. 

Hi Steve, it was just a shame I trashed the balljoint rubber boots as they were spot on for 150, 000 miles but I now know that when these degrade that I can get away with poly bushes on the inner, just found out Audi do a repair kit, yep the inner bush although at £95 inc vat you might just as well pay the extra £20 and have a whole new arm, Audi price £220 per arm depressing their sense of humour.

Steve.

It sure is. The A6 eats the suspension arms and bushes I find. 

Hiya,

I have just had an advisory on these on my a6. Is it a big job to swap them? It's not a job I'd tackle myself but just wondering about rough costs. 

On 4/19/2023 at 9:20 PM, K3v said:

Hiya,

I have just had an advisory on these on my a6. Is it a big job to swap them? It's not a job I'd tackle myself but just wondering about rough costs. 

Hi its no real drama but you need a four poster ramp and a pretty comprehensive toolkit, probably about two hours labour.

Steve.