Omega Owners Forum
Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: cnj on 25 September 2014, 17:38:37
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the time has come to replace the front wishbones, can somebody enlighten me as to who supplied the original parts and also the best place to purchase them please!
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ATP on ebay.de :y about £85-95 for both sides/drop links/trackrods...
Plenty of info if you search for it :y
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Original Wishbones were made by Lemforder for Opel. You can buy the Lemforder wishbones from AllGermanParts, they are still a good product but Lemforder's quality has slipped a little from the days they supplied Opel.
I have Lemforders on both of mine with Polyflex front bushes fitted which is a good solution in my opinion, As above Al seems to have located a decent supplier from Germany, any other supplier is luck of the draw and more often cheap tat than good quality.
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many thanks for your replies guys, methinks that in view of last years mot comments I shall invest in a set of lemforders and pray that things don't go downhill pretty quick come mot date !
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After appalling life from the last set of Lemforder wishbones I fitted, Ive ordered the Meyle from Allgerman today.
Ive a set of polybushes in stock which will get fitted before they go on, and will see how they go.
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that's a very interesting comment, just what I was hoping for, getting fed up with cheap aftermarket bits !
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After appalling life from the last set of Lemforder wishbones I fitted, Ive ordered the Meyle from Allgerman today.
Ive a set of polybushes in stock which will get fitted before they go on, and will see how they go.
Ah it was you on the phone to them at the same time as me then!
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no, my time is yet to come. first problem is to get it running again, had to tow it home from school yesterday after it died (obviously it didn't like school ) after meeting the granddaughter. had stopped and started several times without incident until then. new fuel pump relay coming tomorrow which will hopefully solve the problem.
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After appalling life from the last set of Lemforder wishbones I fitted, Ive ordered the Meyle from Allgerman today.
Ive a set of polybushes in stock which will get fitted before they go on, and will see how they go.
Ah it was you on the phone to them at the same time as me then!
Small World Innit!
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Can also confirm that the ATP items are good value for money, all three of my cars have had the kits fitted in the last few months and perform well :y
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I had Lemforder ones fitted few months ago and full 4 wheel geo set up and 4 new tyres and no complaints. :y
Performs like new, better I would say as convinced VX never got the geo set up right ! Goes like on rails now :y
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I can confirm that ATP wishbones are good value. All my six Omegas are now running on them. Daughter has just brought her 2.5 home for MOT. I see I fitted 2 ATP wishbones to it four years (25000 miles) ago, and they are still good. I bought a new set last week using Al's German e-bay reference, the set cost me 90 euros, inc. carriage.
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After appalling life from the last set of Lemforder wishbones I fitted, Ive ordered the Meyle from Allgerman today.
Ive a set of polybushes in stock which will get fitted before they go on, and will see how they go.
Ah it was you on the phone to them at the same time as me then!
Small World Innit!
Rear shocks and droplinks for Mrs VXL's Alhambra this time!
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For chaps' and chapesses' future reference the ebay seller is
atp-spareparts
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erm... kit of wishbones and drop links / tie rods = £94.50.... order the wishbones and then drop links and tie rods separate it comes to ... £93.60!! :D
odd!!
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The combined single listing has been as low as £80, and prices are usually a touch lower on the ebay.de site :y
As ever, it pays to have a rummage :y I wouldn't buy budget wishbones from anywhere else though...
Not even for a 90p saving ;D
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I recently bought and fitted ATP wishbones and so far so good! :y
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I recently bought and fitted ATP wishbones and so far so good! :y
They have consistently lasted 20 times longer than the last pair of Delphi ones I bought :y
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The combined single listing has been as low as £80, and prices are usually a touch lower on the ebay.de site :y
As ever, it pays to have a rummage :y I wouldn't buy budget wishbones from anywhere else though...
Not even for a 90p saving ;D
Haha, no, very true. That 90p saving I quoted does come from their own listings, by the way, that wasn't from Halfrauds or similar.
I'll hunt around for a cheaper combined amount. At my local Unipart I'm sure wishbones had gone up to about £60 a side, or similar (and they last 1-2 years :( )
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Uni part ones are as shocking as Delphi if the owner of the car I had on my drive has remembered the name if his supplier correctly.
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Yeah... I'm not having them on the V6... the fact that you pay what is a fair whack for a geometry set up (and it's worth it and not knocking the guys that do it, its a fine art when done well) and in a year you've got rubbery, spongy suspension that's already wearing and not 'tight' like it was. I can confirm from 1 week being in a PFL on Unipart...everything, to a FL which was at the time probably still on original VX items all round, the tightness and solidity was like going from a Citroen to a Volvo.
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no, my time is yet to come. first problem is to get it running again, had to tow it home from school yesterday after it died (obviously it didn't like school ) after meeting the granddaughter. had stopped and started several times without incident until then. new fuel pump relay coming tomorrow which will hopefully solve the problem.
On a 2.2 I would be looking more towards cam sensor, I don't recall fuel pump relays causing any issues on Omegas. :y
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thank you sir for your words of wisdom, relay changed to no avail. current symptoms are cranks but not firing but every now and again it almost tries to start, but then reverts to cranking only until you have flatten the battery. I seem to remember having a problem with a fuel pump many years ago on a 2.0lr, can you advise whether it should whir/tick when the ignition is on ?