front conrol arm colours

cobraboy · March 16, 2009 at 3:17 AM

Silly question of the day -

My front suspension control arms are silver with black outer ends, one of the lowers is a recent replacement. Every underside shot I have seen of a restored car has black arms with silver outer ends. Does anyone know why mine appear to be reversed, ie aftermarket bits etc etc. Thanks

65Rangoon_old · March 16, 2009 at 8:36 AM

<font face='Comic Sans MS'>Probably someone dipped into the 'sauce' a bit to heavy that work day, and couldn't tell which end was which on the arms while paint dipping that day.[Blocked Image: http://s4.tinypic.com/30w2jyw_th.jpg]

cobraboy · March 16, 2009 at 4:46 PM

Thats a nice thought but as I say 1 new arm and 1 older. When these arms are bought new are they one colour and is it up to the owner / fitter to paint them and someone got these back to front ?. Just curious to know as it puzzled me when I first saw them.

J_Speegle_old · March 16, 2009 at 9:10 PM

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Thats a nice thought but as I say 1 new arm and 1 older.arms are bought new are they one colour and is it up to the owner / fitter to paint them and someone got these back to front ?.

Depends where and when they were purchased but today many of the reproductions are supplied with the complete arm black requiring the shop/owner to strip and redo if they want to get it closer to looking like an original

Edited by - J_Speegle on 03/17/2009 18:11:16

cobraboy · March 17, 2009 at 8:31 AM

Thanks Jeff. When i have to do any work round there I will strip and repaint. I dont see it as a big deal just wondered if there was an easy answer to my reversed colours. Cheers

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