Just dropped a small fortune on new control arms and mounts, mechanic says it's the daily bumper to bumper grind doing it
Picked up the car from the workshop in Umm Ramool yesterday after finally addressing that annoying wobble and the rattling over uneven patches that I'd been pretending wasn't getting worse for the better part of six months, and while I'm relieved it drives properly again my wallet is still in a state of shock and I'm sat here replaying every single school run and commute in my head trying to figure out how it got to this point so quickly. The mechanic was pretty blunt about it and said the stop and go driving suspension damage he sees is mostly from people who spend ninety percent of their time in areas like Karama or Satwa where you're constantly on the brakes and then accelerating into a gap only to stop again for a crossing or a signal, and all that pitching motion just wears out the rubber components way ahead of schedule compared to someone who just cruises up and down the E11 all day. I ended up doing a bit of reading on that uaebalancecheck site while I was waiting for the final invoice to print and it kind of connected the dots on why my previous car back home lasted years longer on the same bushings even with similar mileage. Honestly just wondering if there's any point in buying a sportier setup next time or if I should just accept that in this traffic anything made of rubber is basically a consumable item like tyres and brake pads.
