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[Mike2530]

Has anyone had any experience of the polyflex bushes as i am just going to fit them to my car. I have only been hassling Powerflex for 8 years to produce them and at last they do.

[feeutfo]

Has anyone had any experience of the polyflex bushes as i am just going to fit them to my car. I have only been hassling Powerflex for 8 years to produce them and at last they do.

Do you have a link, or contact details for them?

And which bushes do they produce?

[RobG]

Has anyone had any experience of the polyflex bushes as i am just going to fit them to my car. I have only been hassling Powerflex for 8 years to produce them and at last they do.

Do you have a link, or contact details for them?

And which bushes do they produce?

http://www.powerflex.co.uk/products/Omega+B+1994-2003-2658/1.html

[Martin_1962]

I have the front wishbone and they are good

[Kneepad]

I wonder why they only do the front bush for the wishbone. Is it under more stress ?

[Kevin Wood]

I wonder why they only do the front bush for the wishbone. Is it under more stress ?

I can't see how you'd do the other one as it forms the bottom pivot of the wishbone and pivots in the "wrong" axis. Guess you'd have to use a spherical bearing.

Kevin

[Kneepad]

I wonder why they only do the front bush for the wishbone. Is it under more stress ?

I can't see how you'd do the other one as it forms the bottom pivot of the wishbone and pivots in the "wrong" axis. Guess you'd have to use a spherical bearing.

Kevin

That clears up that little dilemna.  Why didn't I think of that.   

[aaronjb]

I wonder why they only do the front bush for the wishbone. Is it under more stress ?

I can't see how you'd do the other one as it forms the bottom pivot of the wishbone and pivots in the "wrong" axis. Guess you'd have to use a spherical bearing.

A really big spherical bearing..

Hmm.. there's an idea Not sure how you'd secure it to the wishbone, though.

[TestOmega]

Has anyone had any experience of the polyflex bushes as i am just going to fit them to my car. I have only been hassling Powerflex for 8 years to produce them and at last they do.

Sorry, but why are these pieces of plastic so expensive?  I can see that they don't sell millions of pieces but still.  I would love to change mine just not sure about the price.  Kevin Wood's clarification on the Wishbone rear spherical bushing greatly helps as I was wondering too if things will mess up with one hard bushing the others OEM.

Regards.

[Turk]

Has anyone had any experience of the polyflex bushes as i am just going to fit them to my car. I have only been hassling Powerflex for 8 years to produce them and at last they do.

 :-? I fitted Powerflex polybushes almost two years ago. 

They did have a major fire in the last year, which destroyed all their stock and manufacturing equipment, but the data for the specs on the various bushes was recovered undamaged.

No need to remove wishbones. I fitted mine on the car.

Front Wishbone kit:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OMEGA-B-POWERFLEX-BUSHES-FRONT-WISHBONE-FRONT-BUSH-/360303540159?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item53e3c3b7bf

Wishbone & Anti-Roll bar kit:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/POWERFLEX-SUSPENSION-BUSHES-FRONT-KIT-VAUXHALL-OMEGA-B-/310239139505?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item483bb196b1

The front anti-roll bar bushes are well worth fitting too. 

If it helps, I made a 'how to..' video for the wishbones:
http://s696.photobucket.com/albums/vv327/Turkpix/?action=view&current=HowtofitFrontPoly-Bush.flv

[Kevin Wood]

A really big spherical bearing..

True.

Hmm.. there's an idea Not sure how you'd secure it to the wishbone, though.

I guess it would have to press in. Leading us back to square one.

Then again, the rear bushes seem to outlast the front ones by quite a margin so just replacing the fronts would be a significant improvement.

Kevin

[feeutfo]

Is it the rear bush merle do in heavy duty? Seems to be the most hard wearing?

[Mike2530]

They are not expensive compared to replacing the front arm bushes every couple of years or even the arms come to think of that. The Polyflex bushes outlast their rubber counterparts by years and improve the handling massively. I fitted them to my Sierra about 10 years ago and they were incredible in what they did to the handling of the car and that is why i have been on at Powerflex to produce them for the Omega for over 8 years.

[Mike2530]

Powerflex do bushes for most of the ford escort and fiestas which have the bottom arm bushes just like the rear bushes for the Omega arm so in time they may eventually do them for the rear of the arms too if enough pressure is applied to the manufacturers.

I wonder why they only do the front bush for the wishbone. Is it under more stress ?

I can't see how you'd do the other one as it forms the bottom pivot of the wishbone and pivots in the "wrong" axis. Guess you'd have to use a spherical bearing.

A really big spherical bearing..

Hmm.. there's an idea Not sure how you'd secure it to the wishbone, though.

[Teebee]

I'm curious, is it just the one bush that wears badly on the wishbone?

I ask because I had mine replaced by Vx with genuine parts about 25k ago and they are just starting to feel wooly again. If it's only that bush that wears i'll just replace then with powerflex rather than get full arms.