Wishbone - a little advice please

[Rmachines]

Hey!  I have a problem here,  When i rock my passenger side wheel it will rock back and forth as if the car is rolling with it, but its not, theres also a clunk noise as it do it.  As far as i can see its the rear wishbone bush totaly knackerd!  theres LOADS of play in it!   so this is my question.  Should i replace the whole wishbone or can you get the bushes seperatly.   If you can, Are they hard to fit or will i need a press etc.. ?

 

[boneybradley]

you can buy the bushes seperate but they are pressed in!! its worth replacing the front bush while your at it. or buy the full wishbone (my choice)

[Rmachines]

Yea for the price of the wishbone i think i will just replace the whole thing!  I think the ball joint has a bit of play aswell.   I have seen them for £17 on ebay would they be any good or just cheep crap?  I dont want to spend to much on them if i can help but.

Im not sure if i should replace both either,  I guess the other one will go soon aswell as this one totaly GONE!! lol  They aslo say you need to replace the bolts?  Where would i get these from?   

[Pete Taylor]

VW

[jamrox]

Not sure if i'm right in thinking you mean the front wishbones but i replaced just one and it was a bad move, replace both if you can it makes a hell of a difference, much tighter now! They aren't very expensive, i got mine from Eurocarparts with new ball joints, fairly easy to fit yourself as long as you don't have rounded off bolts like mine!

[boneybradley]

i bought some febi bilstein ones for my old 1.8 and they cost £28 each but german quality.. gti ones are different and much more expensive otherwise I would swap both of mine

[jamrox]

Mines a 95 8v gti and both wishbones and 2 new ball joints came in at under 100 quid which i thought was quite reasonable, i think the later model wishbones are more expensive

[patch900]

I had both my front ones replaced recently and they cost about 40 quid each, if memory serves

[boneybradley]

Mines a 95 8v gti and both wishbones and 2 new ball joints came in at under 100 quid which i thought was quite reasonable, i think the later model wishbones are more expensive

I hope that was fitted??

[Rmachines]

I have a confession to make ..... I went to the scrap yard and got a wishbone! LOL  I planed to fit new bushes to it and to a swap as i cant realy have the car off the road for more than a day!

I payed £3 for the wishbone and turned out to have almost new bushes! and they realy were spot on so i did a swap which took me about half an hour and its sorted!  As long as it gets through the MOT its ok!  I plan to take the car off the road in a year or so for a full rebuild and upgrade engine etc so it will all go polly then no doubt.