A welsh bird's guide to suspension bushes??

My defender 90 needs the suspension bushes replacing as it shakes itself to pieces when you reverse off a curb or go over a speed hump.

Is this a big job?? How much will I expect to pay for parts labour etc at a local garage.

Any info greatly appreciated

ask Yella - he can be helpful (sometimes)

boz, a local garage will charge you a rortune after ;lots of sharp intakes of breath. its not that big a job to do and bushes dont cost that much to buy. if you want poly bushes then go for deflex. they are as good as actual polybush but half the pice and are made locally in north wales. a full bush kit will cost you about 70 quid and the its just fitting them. you just burn the old ones out then remove the metal sleeves, fit the new uns and robert's yer mother's brother

Cheers Yella.......... will avoid local garage for now then and definately a certain 4x4 garage off the dark moggy roundabout do you think??

aye deffo, keep away from the one in pentraeth as well

wossrong wif the one in Pentraeth then? thas where I go...

Right you are!

Well come on then tell me why I shouldnt go there. PM me if its sensitive

i dint care about sensitive ffs, all i can say is, yer must have some money if yer can afford ter go ter holdsworthy, i bet he always finds something else wrong when it goes in there. i'll tell yer how bad he ios, the lad i had my series off took it to him for an mot. he told him it needed 700 quids worth of welding on the chassis alone. 2 plates and a pair of outriggers later, the chassis is like brand new.he also tried to tell me that my 200tdi needed tappet cups as they were rattling, there was nowt wrong with it.

BOZ said:

Cheers Yella.......... will avoid local garage for now then and definately a certain 4x4 garage off the dark moggy roundabout do you think??

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Feck you don't wanna be going to Conwy LandRover They're right expensive ripoffs they are.

well, I went for a 36000 mile service, he fitted new cambelt, new brakes all round, de catted and full exhaust system and a few other little jobs and it was £500 which I didnt think was excessive. More recently he fixed my difflock which was seized for £20.

revjames said:

well, I went for a 36000 mile service, he fitted new cambelt, new brakes all round, de catted and full exhaust system and a few other little jobs and it was £500 which I didnt think was excessive. More recently he fixed my difflock which was seized for £20.

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So about £100 parts and £400 labour. I wish some one would pay me £400 a day.

yeah, and 20 quid fer squirting wd40 ond tapping the operating pin back and to, i bet he even got the kid on minimum wage to do it

I watched him fix it himself. Took 20 mins and involved a new switch. No WD40. As for the rest of it I still reckon it was good service and a good job done. How many of you have actually been there and dealt with him or are you all basing his business on what others might have said. I am a believer in making my own mind up about people in an unbiased way. So far I dont have a problem. I dont think the £500 would have gone very far at Conwy.

revjames said:

I watched him fix it himself. Took 20 mins and involved a new switch. No WD40. As for the rest of it I still reckon it was good service and a good job done. How many of you have actually been there and dealt with him or are you all basing his business on what others might have said. I am a believer in making my own mind up about people in an unbiased way. So far I dont have a problem. I dont think the £500 would have gone very far at Conwy.

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Switch what switch Difflock dunt have a switch it's operated by a lever and linkage. There's a switch to operate the dash light but it don't stop the diff from working.

Fortunately I've never had the dilemma of which garage to go to as I can't afford any of em Went into Conwy LR for a look round one day and they looked at us like we were there to pinch something so **** them. To me the beauty of owning Land Rovers is that I can generally fix the bloody things meself, and if I can't I'll ask somebody here how to do it

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Switch what switch Difflock dunt have a switch it's operated by a lever and linkage. There's a switch to operate the dash light but it don't stop the diff from working.

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Quite true, But there is a switch for the light and if the CDL hasnt been used for a long time the plunger on it can seize which prevents the levers going all the way. I watched him change it, he showed me the old seized one and it worked afterwards so it was not blarney!

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Quite true, But there is a switch for the light and if the CDL hasnt been used for a long time the plunger on it can seize which prevents the levers going all the way. I watched him change it, he showed me the old seized one and it worked afterwards so it was not blarney!

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I think I said there was a switch for the light already.

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I think I said there was a switch for the light already.

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You did mention the switch but you implied that this switch couldnt possibly have anything to do with the operation of the CDL. In fact you were wrong.

well im going off personal experience and i dont like the fat tit, he also told me the clutch was shagged on my series and there's nothing wrong with it.