odd wishbones

[Dobby84]

Can you run a cast wishbone and a pressed wishbone together?
I currently have cast ones but one is bent and I found a spare pressed one in the shed so I was thinking maybe I can use this but I unlikely.
Worth the question.

If anyone has a cast N/S front wishbone please let me know.

[Bowie69]

I can't see it being an issue at all, all they do is hold the wheel in place

[Dobby84]

Geometry should be the same right?

[piotr]

Yes(if all bushes are ok)

[Bowie69]

Exactly, yes, but only as good as your bushes.

[rxl]

what side is bent ? i maby have one... maby its the same side that you need.

[Dobby84]

Passenger side is likely to be bent. I haven't actually taken the suspension apart yet to confirm this but the wheel isn't sitting straight so I am guessing this is the reason. I have a similar problem with my old 205GTI in the past.

[ColonialNomad]

I'm running both. The pressed is on the offside front. It was suggested on my refurb thread that there might be slight differences in the bushing locations...but there are a whole load of other issues with that wheel so can't comment yet.

[Kieron20V]

Quick note, the balljoints are different between the cast ones and the pressed ones so you need to matching ball joint with the pressed arm.

[david1980]

I had one cast on the passenger side and one pressed on the drivers due to a garage bending my cast when they pressed in bushes, the pressed side made the side sit slightly lower and rub the tyre on the arch.

[Dobby84]

Okay well all those comments are useful so thank you.
May look out for a cast one or failing that go for the cheaper opting and get 2 pressed ones and sell the cast one.

[speeding-g60]

The FORGED (not cast) arms have different ball joints than do the stamped ones. Stamped should be a two-hole setup while forged are 3-hole .

[Bowie69]

Erm, my stamped ones have 3 holes in them.....?

[Kieron20V]

Yeah it's other way round, forged are 2 hole. Stamped there are 2 versions, early ones had 2 holes but balljoints are not compatible with the forged ones, and later ones were 3 holes.

[Bowie69]

For the time you are going to be running it, while waiting for a replacement, none of the above issues will cause you any trouble

That is assuming you have a ball joint in your pressed arm