Tubular upper control arms Issue

skep419 said

I just noticed it while working under the car. I believe these are a capp upper control arms that were bought out by qa1. I sent them the pics with a shot in the dark warranty plea.
They have been rubbing on the brake pad hold downs for a solid 10+ years.
The picture of it rubbing is at ride height. The bump stops were replaced with the wedge style.

If they cant do anything for me I will probably just call up dr diff and order some factory style replacements. These will become wall art. expensive wall art.
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I think I bought them from mancini racing in 2003 or 4

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This is why I was asking about the brand, because they looked like CAP UCA’s. If they were made by CAP, they were garbage BEFORE they were damaged. If they had been made by someone else, I might have cautiously suggested repairing them.

But since they were made by CAP, which has a history of UCA and LCA failures, they’re junk. I had a set of their LCA’s fail on my Challenger.

QA1 did buy out CAP, but other than the general design of their LCA’s, K member, and strut rods there’s nothing in common with the QA1 parts and the CAP stuff. The build quality of the QA1 parts is top notch. I even run the LCA’s on my Duster, because it was the build quality (lousy welding) and not the design that caused the failure on my Challenger.

QA1 is a stand up company, but I doubt they’ll warranty the old CAP built stuff.