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Rough Country UCA's or worth the upgrade to Cognito?

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thewhitestallion Senior Enthusiast

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I just replaced my factory aluminum control arms with GM's updated cast steel LCA's and UCA's. And the new UCA's are a little different and my upper ball joint seems to be at more of an angle and some grease is already out of the boot. I went with GM because I have 136k on my stock arms and have had my truck leveled since about 8k miles so I figured I'd stay with quality GM parts... mistake I made. 

 

So my question is should I man up and save some more money for the cognito control arms to correct the ball joint angle or buy the rough country ones (or other brands I'm not dead set on Rough Country). I noticed the benefit to cognito is the ball joint is bolt in which is awesome where as rough country is either non-serviceable or is pressed in. Not that big of a deal if it's pressed in but definitely more of a hassle when the ball joint inevitably goes out. 

 

Rough County is about $250 for both control arms

Cognito is about $800 for both control arms... kind of a big price difference. I am about quality but that is just such a big difference!

 

Opinions? 

L86 All Terrain Senior Enthusiast

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I'd just go with the RC's, with 136k on the clock on OEM parts you should be beyond 270k by the time you need to replace the RC's ball joints. Probably wont even have the truck at that point realistically. 

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I’m not sure where you are looking but the Cognito UCA’s are running around $500 now. I am going with them when I level my truck for the very reason you stated as far as ease of replacing the ball joint as well as the fact that they look extremely well built.


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On 2/5/2020 at 7:44 PM, Fix29 said:

I’m not sure where you are looking but the Cognito UCA’s are running around $500 now. I am going with them when I level my truck for the very reason you stated as far as ease of replacing the ball joint as well as the fact that they look extremely well built.


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I saw that on their website, I didn’t do that much shopping around for them. But that’s because I figured the new factory UCA’s would give me another 100k but the updated arms seem to have an even worse ball joint angle than my factory aluminum UCA’s. I’m gonna see how long these last and then go with ones that adjust the ball joint angle to better suit a leveled truck. 

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53boy Enthusiast

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Can someone give me some insight on these rough country control arms for a 16 Silverado with 2.5” motofab level, would 275/70r18 on stock 18” rims rub on control arms?

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