has anyone fitted superpro wishbone bushes to an octy tdi? I recently changed both front wishbones complete and tbh the bushes in them are like jelly. The car feels like it is wandering and when i brake, there is quite a lot of movement from the rear bush. I bought these brand new from fleabay and now realise they may not have been a good investment:thumbdwn:. Istill have the old wishbones and hopefully plan to fit the superpro bushes to them after giving them a tidy up and repaint .I ve read that the superpro ones are good but are they easy to fit and do you get increased noise due to them being harder ? :confused:

No extra noise mate, just a bit more feel through the wheel!

Well worth it!!!

Steve:)

Hi!

Just fitted SuperPro bushes to my Octy 1.6i.

I experience no extra noise, but they definately are a lot firmer.

The dogbone bushes transfer some vibration/noise thou.

Olit.

Big improvement and very easy DIY I thoroughly recommend them

I thought that on some cars you need a press to change the mounts, or an I thinking of something totally different?

On my last MOT I got the following comment:

"Offside front suspension arm rubber bush deteriorated but not resulting excess movement [2.4.G.3]" Is this refering to the one and the same thing?

I have super pro bushes fitted, like others said no extra noise but you can tell there alot firmer but worth doing.

Thanks guys, just ordered set of wishbone bushes from superpro , so hopefully that will stiffen up front end:thumbup:

does anyone have a guide to changing the wishbones or how to press the bushes out and then replace with new ones?

cheers

andrew

its a simple job if you have a press mate, little more of a pain if you don't.

basically:

jack the car up and remove the wheel

undo and remove the tree 13mm bolts attatching the wishbone to tthe balljoint at the hub

remove the bolt at the front of the wishbone, 18mm i think

and remove the nut and bolt from the rear, nut and bolt both 18mm

then its just a case of fiddling about a bit to get the wishbone pulled out.

once its out, (if you haven't got a press)

remove the rubber part of the bush any way you can, either burning, cutting etc.

once the rubber parts out, get a punch or chizel etc and try to kink the outer race of the bush (the metal bit thats left)

your basically trying to fold it in on itself to make it smaller.

and you could press the new one in with a vice, although this is for a standard replacement, i don't know what the superpro etc are like.

do it very gradually concentrating on getting it in straight, obviously DONT push on the rubber part or the inner race where the bolt goes through as you will just destroy the bush, try doing it in quarter i'e push on the outer race at 12, then 6,3,9o'clock then repeat untill the bush is sitting flush.

fitting is just the reverse of removal!

and then take it to get the tracking done, as it WILL be out

job done.

one last thing, dont buy the standard replacements, they are crap, and you'll be doing this again in 6 months. i'd reccomend the audi TT ones myself.

cheers

Alan

thanks alan - do you have the part number for the TT bushes?

cheers

andrew

no mate sorry, just went in and asked for them i'm afraid

Here you go, from another post on here:

Audi TT front wshbone - rear bush - 8N0 407 181B

Re - Suspension Bushes 2WD - uk-mkivs

amh - brilliant source of how to do the job - thanks very much