The arms are solid but the bushings will get tired. Meyle arms have replaceable joints, if you're changing shocks might as well do all the other consumables too. A new topic probably best.
Shocks are shot, Bilsteins time?
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Hi Scooba_SteveScooba_Steve said:
I was going to poly bush the wishbone control arm rears, but hadn't factored in the addition of the actual wishbone itself. If I replace the relevant bushes then, assuming my wishbones aren't in any way damaged, that should be sufficient ? Or would you recommend changing out ? My car is 70,000 miles up and I had the control arm bushes changed at 55,000 with OE, not poly.
Cheers
I don't think you can get the arm joints separately and those are what go. Could be wrong, I just swapped mine out for Meyle arms, those are replaceable.
Scooba_Steve said:
How did the fact that you needed to replace the original wishbones manifest itself? Was there a vagueness in the steering or just general sloppiness in the suspension?
My car has 70000 miles and is still on the original dampers, I've gone down the route of control arm bushes, 18" Non RFT, wheel alignment and now I am looking to further improve the feel of the car, as I have never fully eliminated the "tramlining vagueness" kind of feeling entirely. That's why I was contemplating the B12 + polybush route. But if you are saying that the wishbone replacement gives an improvement then that's just added an additional £200 to my ever expanding bill!!!
There was just general slop but once everything was swapped out it transformed the feel. I made the decision to refresh everything perishable, it's expensive but worth it if you plan on keeping. There's no reason why you couldn't do the arms at a later date though.
ScoobyR1 said:Scooba_Steve said:
Cheers for that Scooba_Steve
When I'm under the car this weekend I'll maybe just unbolt the wishbones and check the ball/rose joints for play and see if they are all okay. It's like opening a can of worms this suspension stuff :roll:
Dont forget the rear trailing arm bushes can upset things as well. You might want to check them while your at it.
MACK said:ScoobyR1 said:Scooba_Steve said:
Cheers for that Scooba_Steve
When I'm under the car this weekend I'll maybe just unbolt the wishbones and check the ball/rose joints for play and see if they are all okay. It's like opening a can of worms this suspension stuff :roll:
Dont forget the rear trailing arm bushes can upset things as well. You might want to check them while your at it.
Ye thanks for that Mack,
I had these changed out shortly after getting the car in January 2015 as they were shot. I see that the Meyle HD Wishbones come fitted with the RTAB already attached, so If I need these I'll go that route.
You're right, start digging and it gets expensive! At 10 years+ though it's sort of to be expected.
You can get the wishbones without the lollipops if you already have some which saves a few quid. Think you may have the RTABs confused though.
You can get the wishbones without the lollipops if you already have some which saves a few quid. Think you may have the RTABs confused though.
Yip 
Those are probably the best value handling mod you can do. Makes the rear so much more stable.
Poly RTABs, £45 
Sure was, from CarPart4Less with performance discount promo. There is debate about them vs OE bushings with limiters, worth a search as I don't want to appear biased
As above, they didn't feel worn until I changed them; the difference in steering precision was stunning after. I had also noticed that with the old wishbones, the top mount positions were very different with equal camber, so suspected the wishbones on their may not have been a good match. I had to review it after and now is almost the same.Scooba_Steve said:
