Alright, short version, driving home from work last night, teenage girl yapping on her cell phone () wasn't paying attention to the damn road and ended up halfway into my lane during a left hand turn*. Evasive maneuvers followed, but unfortunately, I wasn't completely clear of the center median and clipped it. Curbed the wheel pretty nicely, took a chunk out of the wheel at the point of impact and damaged the Left Rear Lower Control Arm.

So.....looking for the aforementioned control arm and am trying to avoid paying the absolutely insane dealership pricing for it. Any suggestions and/or offers?


*Should have just let the idiot hit me. At least then she'd be the one paying for the damage. Er, correction, her parents would be paying, since they're the retards that gave their still in high school daughter an Escalade. Yeah, I'm not bitter or anything.....

 

Sorry to hear that happened. It's instinct to react to what other drivers do to avoid a collision. We try to avoid an accident with the other car.
But as it turns out the other idiot driver usually never see's what's happening. And it ends up being the defensive driver that gets the damage while they drive away ignorant to what they just did.
Many a time I just want to hit the idiots out there.

Again sorry that it happened.

 

Alright, now that I've done my little chant and rubbed my ears, I'm a little calmer about the situation. Granted, it is tempting to just hit them at full speed, total the car, get the insurance money, buy an FD.....

I've gotten a few good tips via pm and so far, mazmart is looking like the place to go.

 

http://www.partsgroup.com/ These guys are pretty good too.

 

I have one also. Just gotta go pull it off. Pm me to finalize a price.

 

70 shipped for left rear control arm. lmk

 

Hey everyone, just wanted to thank you for all the help and/or offers. Fortunately, I got a call earlier today from the local dismantler whom I had informed of my situation. Unfortunately, as of 1300 today, the world lays yet another RX-8 to rest. But the good news is that the part I need is undamaged as the vehicle was involved in a front end collision. Once again, thank you. All your help is just another reminder of why I'm glad to be part of the RX-8 community.

Alright, enough of the sappy (though sincere) stuff, when does AutoX start? :