My 2 cents: bearing - go with skf or Timken, definitely from eBay or a cheaper source, Price is about 60-70% than at an Autoparts store. If your cv axles are good (your mechanic should know - since he recommended you Suncoast
) don't change them, they are not that hard to change, if you'll have to, later. I replaced all my ball joints/tierod ends with moog (try getting greasable ones), but some people say moog doesn't have the quality they used to. I can't say if they are bad or not, I barely drove couple thousands since replacement. Advance auto has almost always coupons, and year round they have P20 coupon for 20% off, online only, free shipping over 75 bucks. The reason I replaced everything in the front suspension is that I didn't want to keep messing around replacing one ball joint after another. I saw one tierod end's boot cracked and that's how everything started, lol, but I had all the front end purchased throughout the time I owned the crd. The stabilizer bar linkage I got from mopar. What I did was to search eBay for used lower arms years before I replaced everything in the front end, proactively, got the Bushing and had them installed on the lower arms. You may be lucky and find lower arms brand new, for little more than 100, with all bushing installed, from eBay. I also got new clevis (eBay also has them used for about 20-30 bucks), got the steering knuckles for cheap, pretty much got all the expensive (as new) metallic parts as used and installed the new parts on them (bearings, shocks, bushing) and in one day I swapped them on the car. This alternative worked for me because I did stock all the parts in my garage and then just threw them up on the car. If you decide to replace the springs, I can look up the part numbers. Regarding brakes, I'd definitely go with oe brembo, there is nothing in the world better than what they do, but it is double or more than other good alternatives. I right now have the Wagner ceramic pads and cheap advance auto rotors, but the previous brakes were more efficient. Next set will definitely be brembo from eBay.
If tjkj sees your post, he can definitely recommend something better, since he's involved more with all kind of parts and manufacturers.
P. S. The hardest part for me was to install the upper arms, or A arms, the space in the crd is narrower than the 3.7, plus you need to remove half of the engine compartment to access them. I had to buy some special wrenches, this car has a ridiculous amount of metric 18 (most sets don't have metric 18s for some reason) and I needed a long metric 18 ratchet, preferably with a flexible/bending end.
), after removing it from the bracket. You don't need to bend a lot, just a tiny bit to fit the wrench. This is when a long metric 18 works better than a standard size, I got one for about 30-ish bucks from Sears online: