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Jan 10th, 2006, 12:54 | #1 |
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Rear inner arm Bushes
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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. |
Jan 10th, 2006, 14:57 | #2 |
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have you got the haynes manual, that should help.... if you havnt shout and i will sort out the destructions for you.. cheers scott |
Jan 10th, 2006, 23:05 | #3 |
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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!
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Jan 11th, 2006, 12:00 | #4 |
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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. |
Jan 12th, 2006, 12:36 | #5 |
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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. |
Jan 13th, 2006, 01:12 | #6 |
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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. |
Jan 13th, 2006, 13:29 | #7 | |
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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. |
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