Mk5 R32 Golf Front Lower control arm bushes Replacement. 

Send me a link where you got those bushings

Car doesn't look safe , those stands are garbage , should have thrown a tire under there , car is sitting to low to the ground , and your working alone at least have your cell phone on you , big risk here mate✌️

1st, thanks for the video as it gave me a picture as I have to do mine. 2nd, this was scary to watch. You are very unsafe and if you do not rethink your safety habits you will end up badly hurt or even dead. You can not be exercising so much power on those nuts while being underneath the car over those - apparently- not too sturdy jack stands only. You can do one side at a time and the car will be a lot more stable on 3 wheels and a stand (and a wheel and else) and get a breaker bar and undo those from afar. You can never be too precautious when doing things like this on your own. Please be more careful and again thanks for the vid!

Thanks for the vid mate! It taught me of what to do, but most importantly, what not to do as far as safety is concerned. Always have a few safety backups in place. Cheers!

New 1's looked like they were polyurethane, that's always an upgrade. Thanks for sharing, - take care from USA.

Haha that intro was great. Awesome to see an Aussie do a vid on such a foreign car to maintain with.

One thumb up for your haircut and one for the job done.

You should have replaced the bolts as they're torque to yield (one time use only). Now that they're back in, the next time you come to remove them, they'll probably snap. Same happened to me; replaced bushes with oem and kept same bolts, 6 months later replaced the bushes for the superpro Antilift kit and snapped 3 of the 6 bolts when removing. Had to replace both subframe to chassis brackets and get a re-alignment done after. Nightmare.

My corner repair shop wanted $800 to do that, WTF. I just ordered them for $71, 1000 percent markup! Proper sloppy job bruh, f the hater comments!

Dude put your wheels under the car or have a fall back plan in case a jack stand gives way. Good vid

Pretty sure those bolts are 16mm and 18mm

Was this a good upgrade this style is cheaper than the anti lift

You might want to try 16mm & 18mm for those bolts.

Did you find any of the bolts had seized?

changed the front wishbones of my 2.0 tdi golf yesterday first one easy 2nd one for some strange reason the bolt snapped first time it had been took of too was moving the bolt back and forward and spraying wd40 on it and it snapped right at the head end aint a clue why it was so tight like it one of the 3 long bolts which hold the main bush in so just driving on 2 bolts till i get this fixed only about 5 mm of the bolt showing and the bolts are around 3, somethink inchs long what is the best way to go i was thinking of drilling the bolt then put a slighter longest bolt through and the a washed a nut of other side of steel plate as there is room to do this any advice would be great

Did u leave the wheels hanging free or was the ramps under them thnx

What brand bushing is this? Looks very close to the Whiteline version just a different colour

Nice one

Why did you replace the bushings? Were the previous ones wobbly and loose? How did it affect the steering handling?

I have a 2.0L FSI engine auto front wheel drive. The engine was shaking so I have replaced the front left and right motor mounts and replaced the dogbone mount and the subframe bushings. The engine still vibrates but not has bad. My question... I don’t think there are any other mounts on this engine that I can replace except for this bush mount on the control arms. I didn’t replace this yet because I thought this is suspension and it would have no causes to engine vibration is this correct?? If I need to replace this bush mount on the control arm is it better just to replace the bush mount as seen on this video or replace the control arm unit??

Is there a any way to replace just rubber inside bushes, is just pull out back and put new ones?

Being underneath with just those two jack stands looks unsafe mate. You should look at adding some further jacking, wheels or wooden blocks further support.

Nee aligned after that ?

Those 3 bolts broke my heart. Siezed to the point the heads were turning but the boltshafts didnt. Lots of heat and swearing and 3hrs later all 3 bolts removed. Poor setup..

Hi, I was wondering what are the signs that these control arms need to be replaced? Any particular sounds that I should be aware of? I’m hearing a clunking sound on my mk5 gti (dsg) when it downshifts from 3rd to 2nd. Some are saying it’s my dsg but the clunk could be heard from the left passenger side (I’m from the UK)

you can buy just the rubbers and Press out the old rubbers, why did you buy the whole unit ?.

Just curious was there any symptoms in the cars behaviour to make you change the bushes ??

Ok, so you've got rear bushings replaced..... Front ones? I understand that they may flex less and under lesser stress but do age and dry-up and deteriorate from elements... I am just saying... If you're getting your hands dirty anyway... Especially with your own car. I would not cut any corners and do the whole thing.

Don't know how much I should trust a guy who uses SAE sockets on a German vehicle...

Hi where you got the parts from because my Doughter car need to be replaced dealership wants $700. For to replace Thanks

Why didn’t you do the actual bushings. They are located in the LCA front connection. What you made look so hard is in fact the easy thing to replace. A Monkey to do the job you did. You should drop the entire LCA and replace EVERYTHING.

I don’t want to be a RU-vid mechanic.. but..... that car wasn’t jacked up high enough to start.. it was painful watching you struggle like that.. second.. vw use metric not imperial fasteners.. 3rd.. did you use a 3/8 ratchet and socket to undo a bolt that tight? Your tools won’t last long if you did...

5/8? Those are metric. So many bad things in this video.

You're lucky to be alive

In the uk they try charging £300 for this