Thread: To Meyle or not to Meyle, that is the question

EOK, so perhaps I was too harsh, the hydrobush set up IS great for these cars, especially considering NVH and the degree of articulation from the independent suspension.

Thinking about it some more, the current arms, including top and front bushes, plus the ball joint have also done 100,000km since last replacement, and I agree that’s good going for a 3t 4WD. So will most likely change out both arms complete with the Meyle HD bushes. Might also try the Meyle HD front sway bar tie rods, the originals have done 213,000kms.

I’ve been pretty happy with the Superpro rear adjustable sway bar links, wish they’d make similar for the front sway bar, have not seen any to date. Meyle are the only HD units I’ve seen, thicker rods over oem.

will check the rear upper and lower arms with a pry bar as suggested, have not had any issues with those as yet.

thanks for the comments so far.

Eric

My control arms front, and I think the back, have been rattling for a while but have not been too bad. Checked my tyre pressures on the weekend and all were down to 19psi so I pumped them up to 40psi.

While the LCAs were not too bad at 19psi, at 40 psi what a difference - they are really, really, really bad now - the tyres must have been absorbing a bit of the shock in the suspension system.

I always had Meyle on my list as they seem to be the best compromise between the good ride of the originals to the harsh ride of poly bushes.

I am not going to do these myself, so I enquired locally and no one can just replace the bushes but I know it can be done if they had the right gear - so just how hard it is to just replace the bushes or should I just go and get the arms etc.

This time around with 200,000km I will just get the front LCAs done, the front ball joints and the steering tie rods and get a report on the rest.

Open to any other thoughts.

Garry

Im at 270k and 1 of my rear arms has done a Bush, I ordered the whole lot to do, all bushes in the rear and front. I just went with OEM for the bush. No upgrades but not bear Mach etc.

I use lemforder in my front LCA and normally get a good 80k out of them

I have rebushed a set of arms and unless you have a very good set up press or the Bush removal tool to do it in situ then they are a pain to do. Very easy to bend or more distort the arm as they are not that simple to align up due to the size / length of them.
Its doable but it's not as straight forward as some will think using a standard type press.

Just my observation on having done it with the ar.s off the vehicle
Bulletman

Originally Posted by 101RRS

My control arms front, and I think the back, have been rattling for a while but have not been too bad. Checked my tyre pressures on the weekend and all were down to 19psi so I pumped them up to 40psi.

While the LCAs were not too bad at 19psi, at 40 psi what a difference - they are really, really, really bad now - the tyres must have been absorbing a bit of the shock in the suspension system.

I always had Meyle on my list as they seem to be the best compromise between the good ride of the originals to the harsh ride of poly bushes.

I am not going to do these myself, so I enquired locally and no one can just replace the bushes but I know it can be done if they had the right gear - so just how hard it is to just replace the bushes or should I just go and get the arms etc.

This time around with 200,000km I will just get the front LCAs done, the front ball joints and the steering tie rods and get a report on the rest.

Open to any other thoughts.

Garry

Not an easy job by any stretch but with the right tools its doable at home. You'll need some bush dies and something like a large bearing puller plate as there isn't much metal on the arms to get a grip of.