[Jay eS Iye]

well i hit CarDoc today, they said the upper control arm on the passenger side is bent, and tie rod on the driver side is going bad (but said they didn't think it occured with this) and the wheel broke... The wheel is missing like a 6 inch by 1/2 inch section of the lip on the backside of the wheel, i'm gonna go get some pics of that later. Also with the control arm, my brother said he thinks it was already going bad, so I'm wondering if there is actually something else wrong that they couldn't catch in their visual inspection before. they did say that doing the alignment could show something else being wrong, but they wouldn't know until then.
But i was wondering how hard is it to change the upper control arm and tie rods on the 4 door? i know tie rods on the Ford Tempo is not hard at all, so i was hopin both projects i could do myself, since parts coming from CarDoc would be 158.10 for the arm and 71.78 for the tierod, and labor would be a total of 196.24 with an alignment (66.28). So total they are wanting 452.55, which is alot of money... Lemme know what you all think.