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The handling on my 944 Turbo is becoming very poor with some banging and crashing. I suspect its all down to worn bushes so I figure I might as well try and get the whole lot replaced, front and rear. Any ideas on prices? I was also thinking it might be worth upgrading them to poly bushes, something like Powerflex. Does anyone have any experience of these?

Cheers.

I discussed it with Barry Hart when I was doing my wishbones & his comment was the replacements have an uprated bush in anyway, but worth doing if the wishbones are OK.

Banging & crashing is normally shocks & possibly a broken spring, rattles & knocks are generally knackered anti roll bar links & bushes.

Hi,

I changed the front ARB & drop link bushes to Powerflex ones on my 87 myr N/A 944 (the stud had sheared on the o/s drop link so i got some new ones fabricated at work and it obviously made a huge difference ).

If you are interested we get a discount at work from, came to 28 pounds incl vat for the whole 6 bushes (incl the washers for the drop links).



Let me know and get you quote.

Cheers

It is very common for the droplinks to the ARB to rust and snap which coud be your banging and crashing - both my cars have had this over the years, they don't cost much.

Personally I would replace bushes with standard rubber on a road car, you will notice a night and day difference with new ones compared to 15-20 year old worn ones

I need to replace some bushes on my 944. I can find lots of poly bushes that are fairly expensive...if you wnat to replace a few it would be £100 +. Does anyone know of a good supplier for standard rubber bushes ?

I did and I did

The past few weeks have been really mad and I'd forgotten that I'd posted this. I still haven't got round to replacing the bushes and the handling is still poor. I've had the rear drop links replaced previously thinking they might be the problem and the shocks were replaced 2 years ago for Koni adjustables so it shouldn't be these. The clonking is coming from the rear of the car so it won't be a spring so it sort of comes down to the bushes. I'm hoping its not the trailing arm bushes as I've been told they're expensive to replace but I'm getting what feels like rear wheel steer so it could be the problem.

The main reason I asked about is I found these on eBay:

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Might have to put all of this off as the cars going in to be checked for a blown head gasket. If that's the case it could be going, the wife doesn't think its worth the expense anymore.