V70 Suspension: Lower Wishbone bushes

[BobS]

Looks like I need to change the lower wishbone bushes on my 2002 V70. Can anyone give an indication of the cost for a garage to change both sides? Can this be done by any garage or should I look for a good independant Volvo garage?
Thanks
Bob

[GED-S60]

Originally Posted by BobS

Looks like I need to change the lower wishbone bushes on my 2002 V70. Can anyone give an indication of the cost for a garage to change both sides? Can this be done by any garage or should I look for a good independant Volvo garage?
Thanks
Bob

at the end of the day theres "ANY" garage and "ANY" garage ,take it to a recommended independant,,,rather than volvo do a search im sure youll find the info yiu neeed

[piggy]

Any decent garage should be able to to the job.I did mine myself without any problems.I bought the control arms from pfv online,i think they were £78 each.I dont know what sort of cost a main dealer would charge,but i should think they would probably charge 3hrs + for labour.

piggy

[DieselDoNicely]

Originally Posted by BobS

Looks like I need to change the lower wishbone bushes on my 2002 V70. Can anyone give an indication of the cost for a garage to change both sides? Can this be done by any garage or should I look for a good independant Volvo garage?
Thanks
Bob

Im in the process of doing the job with the purple poly bush jobbies. Its cheaper if you take the arms off get the parts and just get the garage to press the new bush in.

[BobS]

Thanks everyone for the replies. I think I will get the wishbones complete with the bushes and then I can fit them without needing any presses.

Have looked at the procedure on VADIS and it looks straight forward (famous last words!!!).

Will order the parts and wait for a nice weekend.

Thanks,
Bob

[lanciak69]

Originally Posted by piggy

Any decent garage should be able to to the job.I did mine myself without any problems.I bought the control arms from pfv online,i think they were £78 each.I dont know what sort of cost a main dealer would charge,but i should think they would probably charge 3hrs + for labour.

piggy

only cost me £93 for a pair of wishbones + 2 droplinks all the way from the usa

[piggy]

Be careful when you've undone the bottom ball joint NOT to extend the driveshaft as it comes out of the cv housing really easily, letting the ball bearings fall into the cv gaiter. It's not the end of the world if it does,but its a messy and fiddly job to get back together.

piggy

Hi,
I'm new to the forum and was wondering if anyone had put together a guide on how to change the front bushes on the V70? Are there any special tools involved either?
What is the best thing to do - get new bushes or get complete wishbones? If the latter does anyone know where to get them from as the main dealers chanrge a small fortune (Just had oil service to keep up history and they told me the bushes had perished...).
The car is a V70 Sept '03 D5 SE model.
Thanks,
Dee

[piggy]

You can get them complete from pfv online,i think i paid £78 each.

piggy

[timh30]

Originally Posted by lanciak69

only cost me £93 for a pair of wishbones + 2 droplinks all the way from the usa

Where did you order them from? With such a good exchange rate at the moment its certainly worth considering getting them from the states. (I too am looking to get some new lower arms).