John Pollman
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Hi all,
To those of you who own one of these vehicles I've just got a quick question concerning the front suspension.
I've got a 2003 Sonoma 4x4 Crew Cab and I bought it new in Aug. '03. It just turned 37,000 miles within the last week or so. I took it in today for some new rubber and to have the brakes checked. I had a feeling that I was due for breaks and I knew the tires were getting close so it was time. I've rotated these tires about every second or so oil change (3K). But the fronts were showing more wear than the rears. They called me back after a couple of hours with the bad news. I needed the tires which was planned, but I also needed front and rear brakes which I kind of suspected but I didn't plan on having to do rotors too. This truck has four wheel disc so it gets expensive when you need to buy rotors too. Also, my front shocks were leaking so they needed to be replaced and was told I needed lower ball joints and an idler arm! By the time I did tires, brakes on both axles with the ceramic pads and rotors, alignment, front shocks, idler arm, and lower ball joints I dropped $1840! On top of this, two days ago I just spent $470 on my wifes car so it was a TOUGH week for the Pollman bank account.
Please please please don't turn this into a HA HA HA you should have bought a Ford, Dodge, etc. type thread. We don't need that, it's been done a thousand times and gets old real fast. I'm just curious as to what other owners of these vehicles have experienced with the front end mechanicals on them. 37,000 seems a bit premature for most of those items. I could see shocks maybe but ball joints and idler arms should go longer than that!
Thanks for any input.
John
To those of you who own one of these vehicles I've just got a quick question concerning the front suspension.
I've got a 2003 Sonoma 4x4 Crew Cab and I bought it new in Aug. '03. It just turned 37,000 miles within the last week or so. I took it in today for some new rubber and to have the brakes checked. I had a feeling that I was due for breaks and I knew the tires were getting close so it was time. I've rotated these tires about every second or so oil change (3K). But the fronts were showing more wear than the rears. They called me back after a couple of hours with the bad news. I needed the tires which was planned, but I also needed front and rear brakes which I kind of suspected but I didn't plan on having to do rotors too. This truck has four wheel disc so it gets expensive when you need to buy rotors too. Also, my front shocks were leaking so they needed to be replaced and was told I needed lower ball joints and an idler arm! By the time I did tires, brakes on both axles with the ceramic pads and rotors, alignment, front shocks, idler arm, and lower ball joints I dropped $1840! On top of this, two days ago I just spent $470 on my wifes car so it was a TOUGH week for the Pollman bank account.
Please please please don't turn this into a HA HA HA you should have bought a Ford, Dodge, etc. type thread. We don't need that, it's been done a thousand times and gets old real fast. I'm just curious as to what other owners of these vehicles have experienced with the front end mechanicals on them. 37,000 seems a bit premature for most of those items. I could see shocks maybe but ball joints and idler arms should go longer than that!
Thanks for any input.
John