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JudoAnt

11-04-2002, 02:06 PM

Saterday my right ball joint snapped like a twig and sent my front end crashing to the ground. Lukily i was only going about 5mph through a parking lot. But anyways, I heard this was a common problem my the guy who towed my car. he said he's had about 3-5 accords on his truck from the same problem. Has anyone out there had there ball joint break??? I'm going to replace the side that broke and the other side. If there is any one out there w/ an accord w/ over 100k I would suggest replacement of front ball joints. I could'nt emagine how bad it would of been @ 80mph. :no:

Honda530

11-04-2002, 02:16 PM

dang thats not good. Well I havent had those replaced on my car. I has over 120k on it. Well I hopethings go okay for you.

JudoAnt

11-04-2002, 02:26 PM

It was pritty bad. The axil broke out of the transmission, and the wheel just caved-up into the wheel-well almost sideways. I also could not stop & I was only going 5mph.

ebpda9

11-04-2002, 03:36 PM

yeah that is a pretty common problem for the CB7 and the CD5/7 platform. they don't cost a lot but thay are a pain in the ass to replace.

gc43

11-05-2002, 07:42 PM

oh dang, sorry to hear that..

makes me wanna double check my suspension, since I installed it myself..

better to be safe than sorry huh

:eek:

94_AcCoRd_EX

11-05-2002, 07:54 PM

WTF, I didn't know that was a common problem :eek:

rakugaki

11-10-2002, 10:54 PM

... man, me and my friend was hella stressing it when i installed my springs a while back... how would you know its getting bad?

ebpda9

11-10-2002, 11:10 PM

excessive play

ShEaNy

11-11-2002, 04:57 PM

yea mine was about to go to..but i heard it(weird noise) before anything bad happen..got it fixed right away...