Hello everyone,

Recently I have seen several sets of cheap wishbones £40 a pair on ebay.. seeing as both my rear wishbone bushes are shot I am looking at replacing them and thought I could get a set of the new arms and then polybush them, replace bushes in my old set with normal bushes, give them a lick of paint and sell them for a bit of money back.. Are these wishbones £40 for a reason?

I'm not bothered about the grade of the bushes as I want to polybush both bushes with the wishbone kit from superpro but are the arms going to be soft as cheese? lol

Any help would be great

Edited 2 November, 201114 yr by Lew_VRS

Should be OK if replacing bushes but what about the quality of the balljoint too?

I would be very careful with "cheap" Ebay arms as ive seen these fail before,thankfully at slow speeds so no one was hurt,ive seen them crack,bend & in some cases seperate around the welds,id only fit genuine or a well known pattern part.If the arm fails at speed you could end up having a bad accident,stuff is cheap for a reason.

I've read about them snapping aswell

Thought that this might be the case hence posting this thread!

Many thanks, will stick to decent stuff..

I will have a pair of original wishbones soon, just need to get my finger out and finish swapping them over lol

You can buy a wishbone which is genuine quality for £25 with bushes.

Don't touch that ebay tat.

You can buy a wishbone which is genuine quality for £25 with bushes.

Don't touch that ebay tat.

From where?

Ill post a linky when I get home in front of a PC.

I was £2 out as they are £27 each.

vwspares.co.uk/octaviasuspension.php

I have a pair of genuine ones that i took off at the weekend which had decent bushes if you want them? no ball joints though.

I have a pair of genuine ones that i took off at the weekend which had decent bushes if you want them? no ball joints though.

How much mate? PM me.