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Offline Col5632

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Re: Rear Axle bushes shot!
« Reply #20 on: 06 June 2012, 10:04 »
VW quoted me £250 to do mine  :huh:

Anybody fancy doing mine?  :wink:

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Re: Rear Axle bushes shot!
« Reply #21 on: 06 June 2012, 14:32 »
i'll do em for 150

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Re: Rear Axle bushes shot!
« Reply #22 on: 06 June 2012, 16:54 »
Just recently I fitted one piece polybush's to a mk4 and I had everything ready to use to "press" the new bush in the axle but honestly after cleaning the inside of the axle an applied copper grease the polybush literally pushed with very little resistance, it came with a solid metal piece that goes straight through the polybush that crushes the polybush tight into the axle. This was tapped in using a hammer.

I suppose it all boils down to what you buy and where you buy it from really as with everything you buy these days. Sometimes the saying right you get what you pay for.

But what dave have said is right its what set up you want as everyone is different.

Yeah I ended up pressing mine in, 10ton..

As you say all items are different, and tolerances in the beam could even be different.

My experience was a ball ache, which ended up removing the whole rear beam.

They were cheap and maybe this was the sacrifice I made.

Certainly don't let me put you off, poly bushes are great at what they do, just sometimes too good.
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Re: Rear Axle bushes shot!
« Reply #23 on: 06 June 2012, 17:16 »
we gotta try and get the buggers out yet  :lipsrsealed:


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Re: Rear Axle bushes shot!
« Reply #24 on: 06 June 2012, 17:25 »
we gotta try and get the buggers out yet  :lipsrsealed:

The first challenge is actually making it out to WRHQ  :rolleyes:
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Re: Rear Axle bushes shot!
« Reply #25 on: 06 June 2012, 18:24 »
hmmm well i see what your saying now, if i go for polly i'll get a stiffer ride but they last longer. if i go for VW ones the ride will be nicer but they wont last as long as pollys so.... to be honest id rather the nicer ride if im honest  :cool:

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Re: Rear Axle bushes shot!
« Reply #26 on: 06 June 2012, 18:31 »
hmmm well i see what your saying now, if i go for polly i'll get a stiffer ride but they last longer. if i go for VW ones the ride will be nicer but they wont last as long as pollys so.... to be honest id rather the nicer ride if im honest  :cool:

How many miles has your car done now til they needed doing? Do you see yourself owning the car for that same amount of miles again?
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Re: Rear Axle bushes shot!
« Reply #27 on: 07 June 2012, 09:19 »
hmmm well i see what your saying now, if i go for polly i'll get a stiffer ride but they last longer. if i go for VW ones the ride will be nicer but they wont last as long as pollys so.... to be honest id rather the nicer ride if im honest  :cool:

How many miles has your car done now til they needed doing? Do you see yourself owning the car for that same amount of miles again?

its on 117k and i doubt i'll have this car more than 3-5 years and i only doing about 2-3k per year

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Re: Rear Axle bushes shot!
« Reply #28 on: 07 June 2012, 09:43 »
Maybe its worth doing it cheap then but im sure youl need a press to put a standard bush back in.
The link above is the wrong link for the bush we bought my apoligies.
The below link is what we used and descripes exactly how we managed to push in the new polybush so easily without any special tools  :cool:

http://www.psituning.com/product.php/19258/polybush_pack_rear_beam__axle_to_chassis_bush___golf_mk4__bora_2wd_etc
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Re: Rear Axle bushes shot!
« Reply #29 on: 07 June 2012, 15:41 »
polybushes are an awful ride. I would stick with standard.