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Offline GTi_James

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Re: Powerflex dogbone bushes
« Reply #10 on: 27 September 2012, 11:02 »
not bad a price if you ask me but thats just me  :lipsrsealed:


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Re: Powerflex dogbone bushes
« Reply #11 on: 27 September 2012, 11:28 »
£80s not that bad to be fair ive ordered the red bush from awesome for £17 which will be here tomorrow with my coilovers wooooooooo :laugh: :laugh: :grin: :grin: so il give them a try first with both for abit then 1 if after a couple of hundred miles its still crap then i can get the r one as a last resort

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Re: Powerflex dogbone bushes
« Reply #12 on: 27 September 2012, 13:43 »
£80s not that bad to be fair ive ordered the red bush from awesome for £17 which will be here tomorrow with my coilovers wooooooooo :laugh: :laugh: :grin: :grin: so il give them a try first with both for abit then 1 if after a couple of hundred miles its still crap then i can get the r one as a last resort

let us know how you get on  :wink:


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Re: Powerflex dogbone bushes
« Reply #13 on: 27 September 2012, 13:49 »
The yellow ones are perfect for my diesel, and those engines move like a mother f**k*r under load. You won't notice too much vibration if I haven't! :smiley:

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Re: Powerflex dogbone bushes
« Reply #14 on: 27 September 2012, 15:43 »
Like me and mike from awesome were saying if you go from a completely foobard bush which will be uber soft then going to something rock solid its obviously going to feel like sh!te my tt bushes felt like crap at first cause they had no give in them at all but yhere fine now il report back once fit then again in a month or so 

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Re: Powerflex dogbone bushes first impressions
« Reply #15 on: 29 September 2012, 14:07 »
So yeah my bushes were shot ! Ive put both red ones in first start of the engine and it does vibrate like mad, havnt driven it yet but its quite massaging on your back on idle

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Re: Powerflex dogbone bushes first impressions
« Reply #16 on: 29 September 2012, 14:10 »
Wait till you pull off on a hill with not quite enough revs  :grin:

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Re: Powerflex dogbone bushes first impressions
« Reply #17 on: 29 September 2012, 16:45 »
I hate them already  :cry: 70 on the motorway it just drones with vibrations !! I will be putting the small one on tomoz with a standard one

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Re: Powerflex dogbone bushes first impressions
« Reply #18 on: 29 September 2012, 17:21 »
R32 for me, no vibrations and hard enough IMO


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Re: Powerflex dogbone bushes first impressions
« Reply #19 on: 30 September 2012, 00:21 »
done this mod on my 99 agu as the bushes were worn and needed doing, so i bought both bushes, small and big, put them both on which solved my issues with a slumpy rolly engine.,,, but at the same time gave the most horendous vibration in the car! it did improve the response time slightly and made it feel more direct but in short i have a new born baby and i hate rattles.... so it had to go, ordered myself a used perfect condition mount complete with buses and its lovely! i stil have the original bushes as i was going to replase the upright round (small) one as i think just this alone would give a happy medium.

i still have the whole mount together ready to bolt on for sale if anyone wants it tho.. i only changed it back for comfort reasons, 3 years ago and i wouldnt have cared!