I would have to look at the ones on my sedona, but I have seen cracks forming on a four year old car I had awhile back, noticed it when I was doing brakes and decided to do a thorough inspection. I've only had one failure on a 14 year old buick resulting in a clunk when the brakes were applied and released.

 

I was a little quick on the reply, I hadn't realized you were in Au, should have known that from the carnival instead of sedona . I did find some replacement bushings on ebay over here for around 100us, would be worth a look and see if you can get the same thing over there. also, I did find a set of oem Kia control arms for around 330us on ebay

 

Mine were replaced at 70k.

 

I just had to have mine replaced at 73K, but then again NYC roads are notorious for potholes

 

We recently had our 120k/km service and it was noted that the lower control arm (LCA) bushes need replacing.

What were the symptoms?

 

Im approaching the 70k miles on mine. But already got a repair done twice in the front driver side suspension. Maybe Im being lucky and this part gets loose first on mine (I think is a tie rod) . symptom was a knocking noise in the front -left, both time