Control arm MEYLE or OEM Subaru

I’ve had meyle hd front control arms for a few years now and they’ve been fine but my e36 is just a summer daily so I don’t push it very hard.

Meyle HD lower control arms are better and longer lasting than OEM. They won't crack arms like the poly bushes.

But you have to make a differential between Meyle standard and Meyle HD, it's night and day difference in quality, all HD parts have a 4 year guarantee, I think the regular have 1 year. I have a few years of experience when it comes to quality of control arms

My CAs were replaced at around 50k km by my best guess (close to before I got my car). They are Meyle HDs, and no issues here (not that there should be any at this mileage).

I rebuilt my E46 suspension with Meyle HD control arms and they use ball joints at least as good if not better than ZHP ones.

I've put some Meyle control arms on a friend's BMW and they seemed pretty good, and I also fitted Meyle droplinks on mine, so they're probably fine for the upper wishbones.

I purchased from Ecstuning and elected to replace the whole control arm instead of just the bushings which I hear is a very tedious job. I went with the meyle lower control arms because a pair was as much as one of the oem. It is supposed to be more reinforced and heavy duty compared to the oem.

I fitted a couple of Meyle control arms on a friend's BMW a few months ago and was impressed with them, particularly for the price, they came with replaceable ball joints too.

I bought Meyle HD lower control arms, they seem to be ok quality wise. Clean welds, thick paint so should resist corrosion pretty well. They come with reinforced ball joints and both bushings in place.

I put Meyle HD lower arms on my Z3 two years ago, and this week I've noticed a slight clunking from the front. I've done around 6k in the last two years so perhaps the quality is deteriorating.