A replacement arm for my Suzuki is also available as a stamped steel item of which a proper ball joint could get welded onto it. This following arm is for the later generation Wagon R and Opel Agila. Evidently, unlike my cast iron one, this arm can easilly be modified to accomodate a ball joint suitable for an L7’s hub:
Don’t forget the Copen :c
Yes we realize, since first photo.
It was only considered as more suitable for re-weld than cast iron. I’m more keen to modify ball joint seating rather hacksaw lca half.
But again- unremovable ball joints ends every consideration.
I did some cast iron re-welds, like using stock exh manifold flanges as ghetto turbo mani base, but suspension components are no place for this imo.
This is a bit too aggro for me…
Since I discovered M100 arms new spares available its not going anywhere. Dead end for me, we can chat about sidetopics mentioned along heh ![]()
But I notice that Butch have strong diy/ modify sense just like me ![]()
Edit: bonus pic from yesterday. M300 and few Materias are only Dais seen on the roads in poland ![]()
Second hand sellers advertise M300 as yaris clone, mentioned this earlier. Mostly chosen by eldery drivers.
This is a bit to sum this tread: wacky engenieering involved due to unpopular car chosen by OP ![]()
For now its EOT for me, but pleasure to talk with you guys, cheers!
It has gotten to be a necessity, as time goes by. 50 years ago, if I needed to rebuild a Volkswagen Beetle’s engine, for example, it would have taken me no more than an hour to go to a shop and arrive home with every item needed. Nowadays, even finding a plastic headlamp assembly for a 10 year old domestic vehicle has become near impossible, unless one gets lucky in finding a wreck which has been rear-ended.
Now I know what it’s like to be Cuban ![]()
By “cutting a Suzuki’s control arm”, I didn’t mean to cut it vertically across, as pictured in your most recent post. I meant cutting off excess thickness at its chassis end, so that it could be thin enough for mounting it into a Daihatsu subframe
Hi, I happen to own a matiz as my daily and a move that is standing in the driveway on stands, I recently redid the matiz control arms and cvs etc. So I had one lying around and decided to check if they match to the Moves….
Looks pretty close to me.
I have also discovered the matiz clutch disk should in theory also fit without any issues. Will test soon and let you guys know as I have the old matiz clutch somewhere.
That Matiz arm looks much more trustworthy than what I’ve seen offered on the internet for my Suzuki.
Supposedly, there are cross-over parts swap possibilities between Daewoo and Suzuki. Certain gearboxes, for example. Korean makes were known for producing Japanese designs under license and General Motors have owned and may still own shares of both Daewoo and Suzuki
To my understanding the daewoo 0.8 engine is a f8cv which was a suzuki engine originally.
Does anybody know if the front wheel hubs of a matiz will fit on the Move. If so the bearing availability will be so common as they share with the cherry qq, chevy spark mk1 and they don’t require a press to install.
When looking at the current daihatsu wheel hub bearing setup on the Move, it looks to be a total headache of availability and fitment vs the simple and commonly available matiz wheel hubs.
This will make sourcing parts very easy, relatively, tie rod ends and shocks and as can be seen the control arms will already fit, and I’m sure the outer cv will be able to fit on the Move shaft, yet to be confirmed but can be hopeful!
This also leads one to believe the Matiz gearbox should also just fit onto the Ed20 maybe just with some starter motor modifications.
Hello moveza
Our european matiz features oldshool, disc-behind-hub design. It was pita to work with… We dindt have 2nd gen, polish daewoo-fso venture went bankrupt. Cannot help with further fitting.
Thanks for control arm photo, but I decided to drop this trail, due diferent ball joint type.
To clear and stay with topic: these arms dont fit L700.





