What would people say is better lemforder or fai for these parts. Lemforder works out £20 more expensive. Also could people link me to a tool for the tie rods

Thanks

Why do you need a new wishbone? The balljoint unbolts and is an easy replacement, the main wishbone bush is mounted in the console, not the wishbone and the front bush is cheap and easy to do as well.

Also do you mean the track rod, since there is no tie rod on a Fabia?

The three bolt holding the ball joint to the hub snapped a couple of weeks ago and I don't know if it damaged wishbone at the time so was going to change it just incase as I'm havin issues gettin my tracking right. Yeah I'm changing track rod an track rod end so wanting to try and find the right tool

You need a small ball joint splitter to remove the TRE from the hub carrier, the rest just uses spanners.

How did you snap all three bolts retaining the ball joint, did you crash it?

The three bolt holding the ball joint to the hub snapped a couple of weeks ago and I don't know if it damaged wishbone at the time so was going to change it just incase as I'm havin issues gettin my tracking right. Yeah I'm changing track rod an track rod end so wanting to try and find the right tool

 

Snapped ball joint bolts won't damage the wishbone. They frequently snap while trying to undo them when they've been on there ages.

 

Part number for the plate with the three captive nuts is 6N0407175A

 

Bolts N10127707

 

 

NB: Some pattern ball joints already come with nuts and bolts.

Edited 7 September, 20169 yr by TMB

Slammed breaks on due to a female motorist pulling out in front of me and two snapped and I had to drive at off road with only one attached and the wheel tucked up inside arch

Slammed breaks on due to a female motorist pulling out in front of me and two snapped and I had to drive at off road with only one attached and the wheel tucked up inside arch

 

Oh dear, that's different then.

Slammed breaks on due to a female motorist pulling out in front of me and two snapped and I had to drive at off road with only one attached and the wheel tucked up inside arch

 

That sounds like crash damage to me, you must have hit the kerb when doing e-stop to break those bolts and tuck the wheel like that, you should get the that front corner looked at professionally in case there is damage you haven't spotted.

Yeah Ive had it into the garage and he sad there's nothing noticibly wrong so said I've probably damaged the track rod end or ball joint but just going to swap the lot just incase. Just not sure which wishbone to go for

Yeah Ive had it into the garage and he sad there's nothing noticibly wrong so said I've probably damaged the track rod end or ball joint but just going to swap the lot just incase. Just not sure which wishbone to go for

 

It doesn't matter which wishbone you get, just buy the cheapest one.

Mine rotted out...