"Old Squeeky"
 

Hi -

For some reason my car has taken to squeeking in the last week - there have always been a couple of bushings in the back that complained, and now the front-end too! I think it is the upper control-arm bushings, but it also squeeks when I turn the wheel.

I have all new poly bushings, and I think I greased them all, so what's up with that, and what can I do about it? I was going to go out with a can of WD-40, but figure I could ask on here first. Kind-of embarassing.

WD-40 will make it worse. It will just clean the grease out of the bushes.

I take it it has been raining a lot where you are, or you have been driving through rivers.

I would just apply lots of grease around the bushes and go for a bumpy twisty drive to feed it inside. Other than that its probably going to require pulling the bushes out to grease them.

I'm by no means an expert on this, but I've just started to fit poly bushes to the front suspension on my Spitfire. I was following these instructions:

http://www.polybush.co.uk/instructions

I don't see any mention of grease?

Ed

Ive done my Range Rover and quite a few Minis. All the kits came with a little tube of moly grease and instructions to use it.

I was lazy and paid to have my Volvo front ones done, so dont know if they are greased or not. I kind of just assumed that grease was normal based on my experience.

Hi, and thanks for that - yes there was grease, so I used it, but may have forgotten once or twice. I'm guessing the poly is pretty durable, so may try some oil, but I was hoping it might be something I had overlooked, like squeeking originating from where the crossmember bolts onto the frame - it just seems odd to have started rather suddenly.

Oh - not a lot of rain here at all, been very dry, although it was wet before xmas.

Hah - I remember the trouble I had getting some of the bolts out, and applied the grease to the bolt. I'm not sure if I did the outside of the sleeve. That must be it.

James

Hi - yes, it is interesting the instructions do not mention grease, just soapy water.

In the meantime, the squeek is almost gone!! I think there must have been a small stone which worked its way in there somewhere, and has ground itself to bits.