the_wolf · Saturday at 21:18

Anaconda said:
If you fit polybushes then buy good ones, cheaper ones are crap.
Not all bolts are the same, some are metric some are not.

They are the correct bolts but failing that I'll have some spares kicking around somewhere. ill go have a look just now for some decent bushes, I'm not bothered about whether or not they're poly but hopefully there's a bit less to go wrong with those

Anaconda said:
I have used Britpart oem with no problem.
Since you have now learned a valuable lesson you would do well to replace your other aftermarket with oem. You can buy a kit for not a great deal of money.

I've never have had issue even fitting cheap stuff before (and I usually do). This is the first time I've had parts consistently fail

Hicap phill · Saturday at 21:20

Anaconda said:
If you fit polybushes then buy good ones, cheaper ones are crap.
Not all bolts are the same, some are metric some are not.

Sounds mad for me but I do have blue bag panard poly bushes on mine. Could not get any others at the time. Do have super flex for for other bushes.

Anaconda · Saturday at 21:23

Hicap phill said:
Sounds mad for me but I do have blue bag panard poly bushes on mine. Could not get any others at the time. Do have super flex for for other bushes.

Luck of the draw I guess. The first bushes we fitted were Britpart poly bushes to the panard rod, failed in less than a week.
Replaced with Britpart OEM and have been good since.

dag019 · Monday at 14:21

Hicap phill said:
Sounds mad for me but I do have blue bag panard poly bushes on mine. Could not get any others at the time. Do have super flex for for other bushes.

I ran britpart poly on my panrod for a while, when they fail you know about it instantly, and being poly they are only about 10 min to swap over so I was not too worried about fitting them. They lasted me a couple of year a set with the mileage I do so did not do badly. I am currently running a superpro set which again have no complaints and have been in for a couple of years now.
I have a mix of poly and oem on mine!

meego · Monday at 15:52

Have you jacked it up with the weight off the wheels and got someone with a large bar or plank to move the wheels up and down while you examine everything ?? I’m sure @miktdish suggested this early on and that would be my first attack at this. If it’s as bad as you say, something must be showing an obvious fault. Be thorough and go over everything carefully.
Is that yours in the Panhard video or just an example ? If that’s yours then surely that’s the problem

the_wolf · Tuesday at 16:00

meego said:
Have you jacked it up with the weight off the wheels and got someone with a large bar or plank to move the wheels up and down while you examine everything ?? I’m sure @miktdish suggested this early on and that would be my first attack at this. If it’s as bad as you say, something must be showing an obvious fault. Be thorough and go over everything carefully.
Is that yours in the Panhard video or just an example ? If that’s yours then surely that’s the problem

Yeah that's mine in the video. Everything else is solid besides that and when id taken it off the rubber had become detached. No idea what's going on but I've ordered a poly set and I've also managed to get a febi set from my local motor place. I'll fit the Febi ones first and see how they go, I've got the drop arm balljoint to do in the meantime anyway as my old one was absolutely packed with crap and dirt, I'm surprised it still worked at all

meego · Tuesday at 16:15

the_wolf said:
Yeah that's mine in the video. Everything else is solid besides that and when id taken it off the rubber had become detached. No idea what's going on but I've ordered a poly set and I've also managed to get a febi set from my local motor place. I'll fit the Febi ones first and see how they go, I've got the drop arm balljoint to do in the meantime anyway as my old one was absolutely packed with crap and dirt, I'm surprised it still worked at all

I hope you get there mate. Sounds like a proper nightmare.

the_wolf · 2025-07-09T22:55:56+0100

Drop arm balljoint done. Absolute piece of cake of a job, especially when you've got the right tools. Dunno what all the faff is about lol. New panhard rod bushes pressed in and that'll be going on tonight. The Febi ones are great quality and just look at the difference between those and the sleeve of the supposedly good quality aftermarket one i just removed. Also helps that my local motor place gives me a hefty discount so those Febi ones cost me a fiver each.

Chalky. · 2025-07-10T07:48:13+0100

I had almost this exact same issue not so long ago, exacerbated when towing.

I replaced my drop arm ball joint, which impoved it, but was still getting a strange feeling through the steering going into corners hard or towing, I checked everything you have and re adjusted both front wheel bearings which had very little play tbh.
Although my rear a frame bush seemed set like concrete and had no clicks or knocks when pulling off I decided to change it, as it was the only joint on the whole vehicle that I never had! I fitted a genuine lemforder unit with greasenipple and honestly, my steering is back to being like on rails!!
Weird that it can show hardly any signs of wear, even under a big breaker bar, but it completely solved all my issues!
I run polybushs' all round, on both rear trailing arms, front radius, pan hard, steering damper and shock, they've been on for nearly 9 years and show no signs of wear, I rate them highly!

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