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Front or rear?
Fronts, I went and replaced the lower arms and control arm ball joints last year.
Definitely easier to acquire the complete arms.....replacing the bushes would not be a trivial exercise.
Rears?..while they look fragile, the lowers can have the bushes replaced with relative ease but the rear upper arms are far more labour intensive as the spring and shock absorber need to be unloaded and sway bar link disconnected to allow for the upper arm to be removed. The inner bush can be easily pressed out and in once the arm is on the bench. Upper bush/ball joint in rear hub assy is tricky to replace as the rubber booys acan be easily damaged while pressing in or out of the hub body.
The most under-rated improvement I found was replacing the steering rack tie rods - inners and outers.
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