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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: stiffmysteruk on 30 March 2012, 19:12
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HI PEEPS GOT A MK3 ON 104,000 MILES AND WAS WONDERING WHAT MILES YOU WOULD CHANGE THE WISBONES AND ALL THE BUSHES
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Kind of hard to tell mate based just on mileage. Best bet is to check them all or get them checked at a garage. My Mk3 only had 80k on it but sat for a year and all the bushes perished.
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Get them checked, if you have any play then you need new bushes.
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Its not something i would just replace.
The rear compliance bush should have slight movement up and down on the rubber, no excessive movement. side to side or in and out, fully inspect the bush for cracks or splitting around where the rubber joins the metal, minor perishing of the rubber doesn't mean they need replacing unless its excessive or causes excessive play, the front bush is very similar, using a bar, check for excessive movement in and out
Check the lower ball joint for any play, and condition of the rubber boot (dust cap).
Also inspect the anti foll bar bushes while your in there, again, slight splitting of rubber is not a failure or necessary an issue as long as there is not excessive up and down play.
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cheers peeps think one of the ball joints leaking that withh be done,ill check the rest.