Wishbone bushes check yours!

[MATT RILEY]

Put my car on the ramp at work and found the front wishbone rear bush collapsed on the o/s and split on the n/s. Now if my car was 10 years old and had 80k on the clock fair enough but its only 4 years old and 36k on the clock!

I gather that seat have modded the bushes to solid ones from reading on here.

Has anyone on here had this problem? and if so did they get any good will from seat? Bearing in mind my car has been out of warrenty for a year now.

 

[Sisson]

the PD160 cupra has solid wishbone rear bushes, my car has done 35k in 3 years and i have worn bushes aswell, you can get inserts from powerflex that fit into the voided bushes that the lesser ibiza's have or you can upgrade to the cupra bushes (like im going to)

 

[MATT RILEY]

I dont realy want to go the powerflex route as suspension needs a bit of give to work properly.The solid bushes sound the way to go.

Am not very impressed with the knackered bushes,this would be a Mot fail and is tharefore a safety issue.I think that seat C/S will get a call.

Anyone else?

 

[techie]

Get some Cupra bushes in there, an excellent mod

And the tool to put em in

 

[MATT RILEY]

Wow cheers Techie! Have you got the tool number looks like i will need it.

 

[techie]

The tool comes part of the kit supplied to dealers, the whole lot is around £250 iirc.

But I should think one could be made easy enough.

 

[MATT RILEY]

Yer i can "borrow" one from a dealer whats the number.

 

[jamesmckelvie]

the more I read of the problems I read with these cars, coupled I have with mine, it makes me realise how crap they are. I have had Honda's in the past that never ever needed any work doing to them. As soon as can afford to I will be buying another Honda. One the other hand great mpg from the Ibiza Tdi, however this must be offset at the cost of replacing parts.

 

[Chri5B]

Techie, do you know the part number for the Cupra bushes?

 

[andythom]

Techie, do you know the part number for the Cupra bushes?

Here you go mate

2nd or 3rd post

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=86334&highlight=cupra+bushes

 

[Chri5B]

Ah ha, thank you - I hadn't tried that combination of words when searching.

 

[andythom]

no probs.....

going to speak to my dealer and see if they will put the cupra bushes in under warranty