[Gus_Mahn]

GM only services the front swaybar bushing included with the swaybar. I can get one for $100, but does anybody have the part number for an aftermarket bushing that'll work on our front swaybar? Mine have almost 60,000 miles and I believe they're starting to make noise.

 

[tinman]

From another post on the internet as pertaining to the CTS-V Gen II. Maybe, just maybe, the ATS-V might.......

I know quite a few V owners that have seen failure of the upper control arm bushings within relatively low mileage. There may also be a link to lowering the vehicle and shortened lifespan. I suspect that because I did not loosen and then re-torque my upper control mounting bolts when I lowered the car, the bushings were placed in a constant state of strain. I am betting that many others have done this as well. GM only offers the upper control arm as a complete assembly which can be found for about $210 if you look around enough. Aftermarket polyurethane bushings are available but the horror stories of shaving them during install and not wanting to give up the ride quality of the Cadillac steered me away from them.

I am happy to report that I did locate OEM quality rubber bushings for all of the suspension members on the V2. Febest offers the items including the front upper control arm bushings. Febest24.com is the site you want to go to. They sell their bushings on Amazon but Amazon will not ship to the US because the warehouse is in Estonia from my understanding (although the company is German). They have a US distributor in Miami that receives containers once a month but when I spoke with them they had minimal hardware for the CTS / CTS-V. Therefore, I ordered a set of front upper control arm bushings (4) through Febest direct from eastern Europe. They honored the prices on the Amazon site and I think I paid about $90 for all (4) bushings. They took about a week to ship to me. I installed this past weekend and I am happy the report that the improvement is more than noticeable. The front suspension feels like a brand new car again. Install was pretty easy with pressing out old / pressing in new bushings only being one extra step beyond just replacing the entire control arm. Certainly worth the half day effort to save north of $300. Also, this time during install I was sure to torque everything down with the appropriate compression on the suspension which should give extra life to the bushings moving forward.

Hope this helps anyone else looking for suspension bushings on the V2!

 

[tta1456]

GM only services the front swaybar bushing included with the swaybar. I can get one for $100, but does anybody have the part number for an aftermarket bushing that'll work on our front swaybar? Mine have almost 60,000 miles and I believe they're starting to make noise.

At first I was going to say they're only $6, but you're right... they list bushings seperately for the non-V cars, but not for the V cars. For the V, the bushings are only included with the entire sway bar assembly. WTF, GM?

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If yours are just starting to make noise, they may still be solid but just in need of some lubrication. Use a rubber friendly silicone grease like Silglide, Shin-Etsu, Dow 55, etc.

I just looked at a Camaro SS as well to see if bushings were available for that since the cars share a platform and the SS or 1LE sway bar is probably very close in diameter to the bar on our cars, but they don't list sway bar bushings separately for the Camaro either-- only as part of the sway bar assembly.

Wonder if you can find some polyurethane sway bar bushings from Energy Suspension that would fit in the factory brackets.

 

[Gus_Mahn]

Next time I change the oil, I'll do some measuring and update this thread.