In the last month I have suffered two failures of the P-bush spindle on my car, at first I assumed the clonk was engine mount or ball joint related but it soon worsened to the extent that the steering wheel snatches in your hand as you come on and off the throttle or when you brake. I'll get some pics up when I figure how to do that from an iPhone but just be warned. The spindles are 18/19mm where they enter the bush but they are machined down to about 14mm where they enter the wishbone forming a nice sharp diameter change and a weak spot next to the heat affected zone where they are welded, basicly they were designed by dangerous c*nts! If any of the previous owners of my China 6 know where these awful pieces of s**te came from I'd be very keen to take up my complaint with the manufacturer (Although to be understood I would probably first have to learn Chineese )

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R H Davey Welding Supplies. I sell new and used welding equipment in the Hampshire area. I take on welding jobs in the evenings, ally casting repairs are one of my specialities but I can weld pretty much anything. PM me with your requirements.

Some of my services: (See my for sale threads)
Engine mount/chassis repair
Solid Beam Mounts BACK IN PRODUCTION
Harness bars

I've used cheap wishbones before lasted about 2 months

Up my way d and a parts are the worst cheapest parts as there shite, I've maybe just been lucky but I've used dingbro parts and have been fine, we rarely have any come back about parts from dingbro or partco, but most times from d an a!!

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In my garage just now

2003 BMW M3 & 2009 L200 Raging Bull
& Audi Q5 S Line
AX stock rod & Saxo Stock rod
Sold the bike an charged rallye an bought a caravan, midlife crisis or what!

Wishbones came from GSF

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Cheers Dan, I expect the reciept is in the pile of paperwork that came with the car, just haven't had a chance to sift through it.

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R H Davey Welding Supplies. I sell new and used welding equipment in the Hampshire area. I take on welding jobs in the evenings, ally casting repairs are one of my specialities but I can weld pretty much anything. PM me with your requirements.

Some of my services: (See my for sale threads)
Engine mount/chassis repair
Solid Beam Mounts BACK IN PRODUCTION
Harness bars

I thought they made kids toys

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andrew315rawson@live.co.uk
Moonstone phase 7 gti6
My Project thread: http://www.306gti6.com/forum/showthread.php?id=119992&page=1

I had a wishbone snap on me last weekend.
The 4 places the arm is welded to the bushes that attach to the cradle had all snapped. By the looks of it, 2 weren't even joined to start with (there was paint coating where they should have been welded) The penultimate weld went as I came off the motorway from a 70mile trip, and about 1mile later the last weld went and the wheel locked underneath my wheel arch, even at about 15 it caused damage.
Could have been very nasty if it had gone any number of minutes earlier at 80mph!!!

The wishbone was from Unipart.

It had been on my car for only 9 months and it is not abused at all.
Checked the other ide and the ball joint is so worn it needs replacing too, so off they come.

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Currently undergoing the knife!