So I had a bunch of work done on the front suspension of my 2012 JKU after a nasty death wobble. This was about 8 months ago. I also had some upgrades done while it was in the shop. One of the components supposedly replaced were the upper and lower ball joints. After the work was completed I inspected everything but was so busy admiring my upgrades that I forgot to look at the ball joints. Today I was under my jeep and noticed the ball joints were really rusty. They don't look 8 months old. Does anybody have any idea if this is normal for ball joints to rust this bad after 8 months?

 

they look full and stock ones usually look flat they prob just replaced with new but china metal sucks here on east coat things rust in one winter those rusted items really arnt the joint its inside the rubber part that counts


but those are not synergy that's for sure . / also upper one dosent look new just lowers, but cant really see well in photo provided about uppers

I think 8 months later would be hard to prove to anyone there they didn't
anyway if they used oem parts

 

Did they say what brand they replaced them with? I run Synergy's in my jeep. A year and a half after install and they still look new...If you wipe off the mud

 

Here's a pic of my stock ball joints on my 2009.

 

Well they look totally different than your stock ball joints so they must have replaced them. Must have used cheap replacements.

 

The boots do look newer to me. The unpainted caps can rust quickly, depending on where you live. Within weeks of bringing my Jeep home surface rust was forming on the unprotected undercarriage items, like the drive shafts. I doubt they just replaced the boots so my guess is they did install new ones, although not necessarily quality ones since the caps were unpainted.

 

Just looked at the invoice and they are dana spicer.

 

Well that explains it. Even the new pics on Summit shows surface rust...lol

Spicers are good joints though, at least the u-joints, from what I've heard.

 

there is usually print on them (brand ) I think they were put in , the factory ones are flatter due to no grease lol