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Old 4th March 2018, 08:32 PM
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I used the Strongflex bushes MJ, I had just found out about them at the time and decided to give their bushes a try, I've tried other brands on other cars with good results from all suppliers and price ranges. I decided to use the Stronglex basically on price, cheap as chips! To do the whole front end was about half the price of the regularly seen brands. They have been on the car for over 2 years now with no sign of wear/slop/ degradation, I have even changed numerous arms and reused the bushes with no sign of movement. Part of the reason to swap to poly was that I found that it wasnt the balljoints on the arms were wearing out but it was the bushes, particularly the top rear ones as they get quite a hammering on either side on full lock and as we all know when parking these cars, the steering does a lot of work lol

Driving wise, I feel they have made the steering a tad sharper/positive as they have taken out some of the movement of the bushes in such a complex multilink suspension setup. Doesnt seem to have made the suspension any harder/harsher (and mine is a sport version) and cabin noise does not seem to be affected. I drive in a "spirited" fashion most of the time lol (cant help it lol thats why I wanted a V8 lol) and do like the feedback and feel I get from the car now compared to when I first got the car and cant fairly say if they have made "that" much of a difference over standard/fresh bushes as when I put all the new arms on I replaced the new bushes with the poly ones so have no really benchmark to compare with, like that feeling you get from our cars when you put a full set of new tyres on our cars, if you see what I mean HTH and YMMV again lol
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