For sale: Powerflex bushes

[Lee]

I have 2 sets of brand new Polyurethane Powerflex bushes for the S2 and Rs2 wishbones. Both types are avilable, one set for forged and one for pressed wishbones.
Both kits are as supplied by Powerflex, are brand new and have never been used. Yours for £45 per set delivered. PM me if interested.

Thanks

Lee

[Rob W]

How easy are these to fit Lee?
And do they make much difference to the ride quality?

[Lee]

They don't adversely affect ride but handling is improved especially if your old bushes have perished or aged. There have been other threads about changing wishbone bushes and most notably recently form S2driveruk...have a quick search. I did mine on a very relaxed saturday morning. I was enjoying the weather and drinking too much tea but it didn't take that long. Assembly is quick and the hardest job is getting the old bushes out. I have heard of a few people that have changed them with the wishbone on the car but this requires a tool to extract the old bushes from th ewishbone. I drifted my old bushes out with a hammer in about 2 minutes taking care not to damage the wishbone itself. It's not rocket science but there are 5 main points as far as I'm concerned...
1. you need a deep offset ring spanner to access the retaining bolts which are inside the subframe..access is easy with teh car jacked up.
2. Poly bushes freely rotate so these are bushes that you can tighten without requiring the weight of the car on the wheels
3. Note the location of the camber plates on each side so that you don't screw the geometry during reassembly
4. Lubricate the components with some copper grease before assembly.
5. Refit using new bolts for the bush to subframe mountings and new nuts on the camber plates if you undo those. This is probably not essential but good practice for structural fasteners.

Its only 5 fasteners each side and its a doddle to do.

HTH, Lee

I think these kits retail at about £60 plus ostage from most vendors. Note that pressed and forged wishbones require a different bush size but I have both.

[Markus]

Are these for the front? Four bushes per kit (two per side?)?

[Lee]

Yep. Each kit has 4 bushes so enough to do a complete axle. You have an avant so you can only do the fronts.

[Beetie]

Lee, will these help handling even with standard suspension? Ill have to have a look at mine when i get my car back next week....

[martinjs]

Will these only fit the coupe front lee?

i have pressed fronts and forged rears.


martin

[Lee]

Forged ones gone. Pressed ones are still here although someone has experessed an interest. The fit Coupe and Avant Front, and possibly Coupe rears too. I will bring them to GTi if someone hasn't bought them by then. Must have the pressed wishbones for the smaller bush. The available pair is the latest generation with the black (hardest) material and the extra spiral groove on the pin to aid lubrication. Fnar fnar. These will improve ride and handling if your exisitng bushes are shot without adverse effects. The older, purple ones were softer and unable to take abuse.

[martinjs]

got it wrong, my fronts are forged, so these will fit the my pressed rears wont they are they still for sale? i'll take them lee. can pay you at gti.

cheers
martin

[Ski]

let me know if u still got em lee.. im interested.. im never on this site no more due to addiction to a certain online game..

send me a email : cl@gamebashers.net : if you still have them... im not sure which type i need (pressed or other) but im sure u will. please advise

[Lee]

Sorry dude, last set spoken for.