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Originally Posted by CrozA8
Hi all,
I am at the point where I need to replace all of my control arms (scrubbing tyres big time) and have found this thread very interesting.
Two questions I hope you may be able to help me with.
1-Are Meyle products any good. I hear that they may not be of german quality??
2- Bushings were mentioned earlier. Can anyone let me know where I can source these, other than Audi. I'm told that Lemforder is the place to go but in Aus it's a little difficult as they seem to deal with the trade only.
Any advise greatly appreciated.
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I don't know anything about Meyle, I bought TRW even though I'd usually buy Lemforder parts. I still have the TRW bushes I bought (JBU138) as I wasn't able to remove the arms without damaging the ball-joints, so my complete arms needed replacing. There's a video of a guy on YT doing the bushings, but the video skips the part where he removes the ball-joints. If you don't have much galvanic corrosion and you can get movement on the ball-joints then maybe you'll fair better than I did - mine were seized solid and took a lot of brute force to get any movement at all. With corrosion, I think the only way to get them out without damaging them would be to have the whole assembly on the bench and be able to drive them out from underneath.