I Have a Mazda 3 hatchback 2.3. I bought the car used and noticed a hard pull to the right when making a right turn. After inspecting it, I noticed the left side lower ball joint had some wobble to it and so I replaced it with a control arm/ball joint assembly. Well, that didn't solve the problem and it looks as if the bore of the spindle is slightly larger than the ball joint stem. After tightening the punch bolt the ball joint stem still moves. Just to test if this was the problem I put a thin piece of metal to shim the stem and tightened the pinch bolt and took it for a test drive, it did solve the hard pull to the right. Now my question, are the spindles different in models. I find it hard to believe that the bore could have worn out where it created the looseness of the ball joint stem. I am going to look for a use LH side spindle and hub assembly and hope for the best. Sorry for the long post. Thanks.

 

Any front hub/spindle from a BK series 2004-2008 will fit, as long as it has ABS and is FWD.