I was going to replace the bushings and expected a fairly easy access as most cars have them very easy to access.

But on the 2008 GP 1.2 8v, if I didn't miss something, it appears you would have to remove the entire subframe to replace the stabilizer bar bushing?

The bushing clamp has two downward-facing bolts of unknown size (hard to see), and only one appears to even be accessible from below the car. It is really deep in, and for example my 13 mm deep socket was too thick to clear the hole in the subframe below the clamp bolt. And the second bolt does not seem to have any kind of clearing for it?

After some Haynes browsing, it doesn't seem to have anything related to the bushing?

According to this, it should be an M8 with two holes below them... but I only saw one? And the bolt was anyway unreachable by a long 13 mm


http://4cardata.info/elearn/199/2/199000000/199000000/199000001/199000977

Strange ... looking at this picture of a Grande Punto subframe there ought to be 4 holes to access the bolts (circled in red):



A first-hand account of the procedure here ...

https://www.fiatforum.com/grande-punto/301953-powerflex.html?p=3036172

I'll have to look again. Maybe something was blocking the view