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Originally Posted by FourPointEight-is
Is the ball joint being seized in place only an issue in places where they salt the road? They don't do that here and my X5 is very clean underneath (most I've got is some dust).
Asking since I need to do both my lower ball joints.
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It's entirely possible that you'll have no trouble at all. I had no real problems when doing this on my ~170k mile 2001 in about 2015, in good-climate, no-salt California its whole life.
I may have needed a good selection of pullers, etc. to get just the right pull in just the right spot, but generally try not to use a hammer on my cars, and did not have problems on this one.
So YMMV seems to be especially true for this job, since there are plenty of nightmare stories out there.