bushings / durability

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <199609241253.AA10720@gpo.cc.bellcore.com> gfl@cc.bellcore.com (grant f lenahan) writes:

> Many aftermarket ("standard") bushings have very poor
> dureability.  Two mechanics I know insist that you MUST
> get OEM (audi) bushings.  One of them, in his own car,
> got 7 months from a set of aftermarket bushings.  Furious.

Our local QOC area coordinator fitted polyurethane bushings.  They squeak.

They sqeak so loud, you can hear them when you overtake him.

Which is very easy to do on bends in the road.

Stay Audi. 

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 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club