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4 hours ago, Bencs said:

I don’t suppose you ordered and installed these did you? Will need to do mine in the next few months as the bushes are looking a little worse for wear.

 

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Ben

Hi Ben,

 

See the Dorman or Moog arms here:

 

https://www.torqen.uk/53-arms-links

 

Tried and tested from top manufacturers:

 

https://www.dormanproducts.com/Pages/corporate/history.aspx

 

http://www.moogparts.com/about.html

 

Always in stock, ready to ship for next working day delivery.

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Thanks Adrian!

Is there a consensus on which is the preferred manufacturer?

Pretty sure guys on the other side of the pond don’t rate the dorman ones and just go for OEM w/ whiteline bushes.

 

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If it helps I bought the moog ones as they were slightly cheaper and they were fine. I did need to use the cones from the existing arms but that was easy to do. Did it all myself with now issues and purchased from Adrian above! Car feels noticably nicer and no nasty clunk, this was a year ago now :)

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I'm having terrible trouble with my Energy bushings on the compression arm. Reading up on them there seems to be a mixed bag of reviews on the Energy compression arm bushing. Logically a single piece bushing would be much better as what seems to happen with the 2 part bushing is they separate due to the angle the compression arm operates at, combined with the fact they don't bolt up snug to the underside of the car naturally the 2 part bushing separates (can't believe they can sell them like this; they're not fit for purpose at all).

 

I've reinstalled my compression arm bushing several times and no matter what it separates. Yes I've used plenty of grease, and bolted the cross brace up fully. Yes it feels much better when driving however I wouldn't recommend the Energy polyurethane bushings (or a 2 part bushing) for the compression arm (elsewhere I would but not the compression arm).

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