Technical Wishone replacement...why???

[martyc5674]

Guys
I notice from this forum that quite a few of you have replaced wishbones.
I am curious as to why???
A wishbone as far as I'm concerned holds a hub steady at the bottom of the suspension whilst facilitating vertical movement as the suspension travels.
I find it hard to see how anything other than bushings should go on these unless you hit a Kerb etc pretty hard.
Just curious really!!!
Cheers
Marty.

 

[kev78]

Hi Marty,

My reasoning for replacing the whole wishbone would be price, time and peace of mind. Even doing the job myself i would rather pay a little more and have a bolt on item than change potentially the 2 bushes and the ball joint( if the balljoint can be changed - never looked hard enough to notice). If you are paying for a garage to do the work it would be an hours labour to change both wishbones or an hourish each side to recon with new bush / bushes / balljoint (potentially longer if the original balljoints are rivetted on)
The wishbones are available complete for about £50 a side on average.

If you have 1 bush worn then you could rplace that one but the other on that arm is likely to follow soon and you have to do the whole job again.

If a car failed an mot and i was going to sell it i would do the bush that failed but on a car i am keeping the peace of mind knowing all is well for the next 70-80k far outweighs saving a couple of tenners and probably revisiting wishbone removal in the near future.

Kev

 

[umberto]

Why does anything thing go wrong on a Multipla, our 05 model recently failed it's MOT as a result of bush failure. So i had both wishbones replaced!!