Poly bushes

[pfhc]

Having just had my first mot, yes the car is over 3years old. My very nice mot man gave me a Advisory notice, he could have failed it, with the play on the lower front suspension bushes. Any one know where I can get a replacement set and what the correct part number should be?

7,200 miles on the clock, does this seem like these bushes should have gone in that time?

Peter D Smith

[stylussprinter]

Having just had my first mot, yes the car is over 3years old. My very nice mot man gave me a Advisory notice, he could have failed it, with the play on the lower front suspension bushes. Any one know where I can get a replacement set and what the correct part number should be?

7,200 miles on the clock, does this seem like these bushes should have gone in that time?

Peter D Smith

I can't be certain why yours might be worn so soon but it could be that the poly's extend behond the inner metal tube i.e. weren't trimmed at fitting and/or the bolts are not tight enough to grip the metal tube so that they work as intended . My car's done nearly 7000 hard miles mostly on track and the poly's are fine . I've got a Stylus here now that I'm renovating which needs many new bits but not poly's . It's 2001 and 17,000 miles.
If the bolts are not tight then the pick up 's will wear too , allowing slop . Just chatting to Andy B. and his car's 1998 and all his poly's are o.k.
SSC Tim's the place to get them , then there's no hastle over correct sizes Peter.

Rob.

[alecmartin19]

under normal road use and even most track use a poly bush of the sort and composition fitted to the stylus should last between 8 to 10 times as long as a normal metalastic bush. sounds like they weren't fitted correctly. may be worth checking the hole size in the brackets on the chassis for wear while you've got the bushes out!

[pfhc]

Rob

Turned out no to be the bushes. With the car jacked up and no weight on the front wheels, there was a couple o mm's of slack between the spring seat and the spring. Adjusting the spring seat on the damper by a turn stopped the movement.

Peter

[stylussprinter]

Rob

Turned out no to be the bushes. With the car jacked up and no weight on the front wheels, there was a couple o mm's of slack between the spring seat and the spring. Adjusting the spring seat on the damper by a turn stopped the movement.

Peter

Peter , now I'm confused (no change there then ) Why did the mot guy detect play in the lower wishbone bushes --------- loose springs cause no play and are only apparent if the car's jacked up . My rear springs are loose if the car's jacked up , simply because I lowered the car behond the open spring length -------- not a problem unless you go over speed bumps at 60mph I think your guy was just trying to be ' knowledgeable ' and looking for trouble

Anyway , you're happy you've got the mot Rob.