Rear inner arm Bushes

Hi,

Can any one please advise on what's involved with changing the "rear inner arm bushes" on a V40.
Advised by a dealer that the bushes are beginning to crack. The dealer also advised that the cost of replacement is £100 per side + labour.

[GorgeousGeorge]

phil

have you got the haynes manual, that should help....

if you havnt shout and i will sort out the destructions for you..

cheers

scott

[gnhuk]

Had a similar problem with my S40 and it was a pain in the wallet! Why do these things give up at so low milages? Don't go near a main stealer - it will only hurt more!

Hi ya
Had my osr bush replaced on my 1998 V40 T4 last year. Cost for spare was about £170 (from main dealer) and labour on top. It was fitted by my local garage who normally do my servicing (main dealer to expensive and cr*p).
There are two types if I recall correctly, from late 1998 on it is a large arm and bush assy which is why it is expensive and earlier ones were a smaller rubber bush which can be pressed out and a new one pressed in. However my car is an earlier 98 but had the later bushes fitted. lt maybe because I bought mine in France whilst I was living there. So check and make sure which type you have as it is a big difference in price. Main dealer doing the work would be expensive I guess.

My (early) R reg T4 has the smaller bushes fitted.

It failed the MOT back in November because of them. I had them changed at a Main Dealer (both sides) and it cost approx £200 all in.

[Rooster]

Which bush's we talking about here the main big trailing arm bush or the little camber contol are bush halfway down the arm,

On 96-99 model cars the main big trailing arm bush splits and when you change them you put the later spec bush in and they are a complete t**t to change.

On later cars 01 on its the little camber control arm bush's that split, seen them split on cars with 20k on and they cos a fortune for what they are. I have an 01 s40 and have had to replace these arms but i've looked into getting a stronger set but nobody only dealers do them and i carn't find anywhere that will make me a set up. Would be ideal if the arms could have rose joints instead of bushs in.

Originally Posted by Rooster

Which bush's we talking about here the main big trailing arm bush or the little camber contol are bush halfway down the arm,

The one I had changed was the osr big trailing arm. If memory serves me correctly, the garage had ordered the smaller one, my car is a Jan 1998 car but built for the French market as I said in an earlier post. But the arm fitted to mine is late 98 model. Now this may well be because the big arm type was fitted to European models before UK ones (does this make any sense)
It may well be that these bushes can be changed seperately but I hadn't had the time to investigate this. As I said in my previous post it cost about £170 compared to abut £20 to £30 for the smaller earlier type.