4KQ rear control arm bushing HELP!!!!

[Huw Powell]

Per Lindgren wrote:
>
> The bushings I removed from her car, which must have been the factory
> installed bushings, were of the rubber type. Her car had only covered
> 160k kms at the time so I do not think they had been replaced at an
> earlier time. This car did not have powersteering.

but it was a *VW*.  we're more concerned with memorizing everything we
have ever seen on Audis... throw the parent company into the mix as well
and the combinations get vastly more complex!

> >Yes, you are incorrect, they are just the early style bushings which were
> >updated in about '84 or so.

> ><<  sisters 1987 VW Passat (aka Quantum) and found through a little bit of
> > > research that the bushings you've described as the older type, is for
> > > cars without power steering and the later steel sleeved type is for cars
> > > with power steering. Any comments from the list, am I completely wrong
> >here >>

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