Wishbone Bushes

[rasputin]

Excuse the rust and muck, but well we do get the odd wet patch on the roads here .

 

The car is a 1999 Mondeo 2.5 V6 Hatchback with 90,000 miles

 

This is how my bushes look with the car jacked up, all "peeling away" from their holes:

 

 

 

 

 

This is how they look with car lowered onto ground - looks fine to me:

 

 

 

 

So is this normal behaviour for wishbone bushes or are mine buggered?

The car steers in a straight line even under heavy braking, there are no bumps or knocks, and as far as I can tell the front tyres are wearing evenly. But I am getting more road feedback than normal which is making the steering wheel a bit wobbly - it feels like dodgy wheel balancing but all balancing has been checked and is fine (and the "wobble" is worst at around 30mph anyway)...

[Tony]

Their a goner mate.... The bushing shouldn't detach from the centre core jacked up or not.

 

E55EX RACER did a good pictorial on how to change them here> http://www.wheels-inmotion.co.uk/forum/ind...ic=2844&hl=

[rasputin]

Thanks . Hopefully replacing these will sort out the wobble.

 

Have you got any recommendations for 3rd party wishbone manufacturers? I would rather not stretch to the cost of genuine Ford parts, but the only alternatives I can find are unbranded el-cheapo parts on eBay (don't think so...) or Quinton Hazell, who I believe have a decent reputation?

[Rich]

Yep as Tony said they need changing...are they the original Ford arms?

 

I've used pattern arms which can last a few months or a couple of years, all depends on what you get. I've just fitted these ones I bought from ebay - link, worth a try at 30 quid a pair, delivered