I noticed some tears on my compliance bushing. In my mind, I’m thinking since I’m taking out the LCA just replace all the bushings/ball joints on the LCA. Then I might as well change out the struts and everything else in the front suspension. Then just get one alignment afterwards.

The front compliance bushing is the only part that has tears. All the other parts actually seem fine. No movement and no bad symptoms while driving. All original parts on 2010 accord, 200k miles.

my reasoning is it should be about time to change everything so I might as well while I’m in there. Am I wrong? Should I just change the compliance bushing and leave everything else alone? Do I need an alignment if I just change the bushing? Thanks!

 

I went Moog lower control arm. I read on other forums that compliance bushing in general on oem is weak point for this generation. I hear you don't want to go Moog knuckles. The compliance bushing has to be aligned up just right to and I don't have press and no shop that is a specialist in this. Moog had 1 yr warranty so figure I'd give it a shot. Some say it is stiffer than Honda oem but my suspension is nearly 300k old. Like you I did all struts at same time so I had 1 alignmemt required. I don't know for sure whether compliance bushing renders need for alignment but figured it is probably recommended.

 

thanks for the insights. I do have the tools to replace just the bushings, but I know it’d be a lot easier to just replace the whole control arm. I really like to stick to OEM but the costs start to get out of control if I try to replace everything OEM for this.