Rattle in front suspension, only warm weather. End links?

[rejester]

What has developed, for my early Spring surprise, is a rattle or faint clunkly feeling and sound from what appears to be front left.

This only happens driving slow, like parking lots and so forth. What's odd is it only happens in 55-60 deg F or warmer weather. 70 F it's more pronounced.

So right now in the morning when it's cooler I don't hear it, going home tonight when it might get to 70 F I will hear it.

 

Not really a squeak and I ignorantly paid to have a left upper strut bushing/bearing replaced because the dealership though that was it. The dealership also re-lubed all the ball joints with grease, the needle trick since these don't have fittings. Big waste of money.

 

I really think this is a stabilizer end-link that needs to be replaced, I'd do both of them obviously. Has anyone else gone through this? This looks easy enough to do with proper tools. I'm done getting screwed by the dealership.

[FL-Kruzen]

Sounds similar to what I have. I hear some rattling noise from left on my 2013 Fusion. Dealer replaced lower control arm, stabilizer ends, ball joints. I just picked it up from the dealer for the second time and the noise is still there. I only hear it driving slow over rough spots or on grass. It goes back to the dealer Monday.

[megaspeed]

Sounds similar to what I have. I hear some rattling noise from left on my 2013 Fusion. Dealer replaced lower control arm, stabilizer ends, ball joints. I just picked it up from the dealer for the second time and the noise is still there. I only hear it driving slow over rough spots or on grass. It goes back to the dealer Monday.

Don't you love when you expect a car that is fixed, drive away listen for the noises just to find out that the issue is still there,they didn't fix anything but charged you everything? To mechanics: How about testing the car and making sure the problem is gone before releasing it to the customer? Oh I forgot, they don't care...