Warning - Broken control arm bolt!

[brice1971]

Recently had this happen as well. Battled with Toyota to cover this and lost. decided to tackle it myself.
The bolt head had completely broken off. Got it up on a lift and tried to loosen on side of the cross member enough to be able to grab it with some vise grips. This did not work.
Grabbed a punch and stuck it in the hole. Couple of smacks with the hammer and it shot up into the inside and separated the tacked on nut from the floor board.
As you might be able to see from the pictures there would've been no way to grab this and try to turn it out.
Rebolted this with nut and lock washer and on my way. Saved myself about 2 hundred bucks (this is what the local shop wanted to drop the cross member).
Had about an hour in the job and that included re-tightening everything I loosened on the first attempt.

FYI if you have had this repair done at an independent shop (non-Toyota Dealer) they will not reimburse you.