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19th June 2010, 14:46
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New Drop Links?
hey, i bought a VTR a week ago on the spur of the moment and kinda wished id waited :< Anyways since ive been driving it i've always thought that the steering wasnt quite right, jacked her up and took the wheels off to have a gander this morning and this is what i saw;
Also when i'm driving there seems to be some sort of grinding/scraping sound coming from the wheels is this because of the droplinks or something completely different? I tend to hear the noise most when going in a straight line at about 20mph
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19th June 2010, 15:33
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hi there you need to get 2 new droplinks, 1 for each side that will help
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19th June 2010, 15:40
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It may be the cause of the noise, cheap replacement so simple to rule it out
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19th June 2010, 15:41
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Any play in the hub?
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19th June 2010, 15:44
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new ones are in order.
everything seems to wear out so quick with saxos iv just had to order x2wishbones, droplinks, new track rod ends and anti roll bar bushes.
all standard items as iv found the powerflex bushes to be a load of turd!
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19th June 2010, 15:46
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Originally Posted by PETE-VTR
new ones are in order.
everything seems to wear out so quick with saxos iv just had to order x2wishbones, droplinks, new track rod ends and anti roll bar bushes.
all standard items as iv found the powerflex bushes to be a load of turd!
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Should research before buying, floflex are good bushes, a little stiffer than powerflex and cheaper 
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19th June 2010, 15:48
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Cheers on the replies guys I'll get onto it asap
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Any play in the hub?
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Nope not at all 
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20th June 2010, 00:59
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Should research before buying, floflex are good bushes, a little stiffer than powerflex and cheaper |
i do reserch before i buy things, never even heard of 'floflex' and at the time id bought powerflex i bet you didnt either.
a little stiffer? they are both made from the same material
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20th June 2010, 13:25
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Originally Posted by PETE-VTR
i do reserch before i buy things, never even heard of 'floflex' and at the time id bought powerflex i bet you didnt either.
a little stiffer? they are both made from the same material |
Yeah i bought them over powerflex as heard nothing really that positive them.
Same material to a point yeah but different levels of flexilibty, the same way powerflex black are different ot their blue
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20th June 2010, 13:33
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Probably same way tyres are made from the same material (rubber) but perform differently.
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20th June 2010, 13:34
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Originally Posted by Bickerton
Same material to a point yeah but different levels of flexilibty, the same way powerflex black are different ot their blue
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both bushes are made from same material and same size/fitment. theres no physical difference so on what grounds can you state that one is stiffer then the other???
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20th June 2010, 13:35
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You can get blacks. Might not be on their website since they had the fire, but i thought they got everything back to normal now. Might be redseigning the blacks or somthing, but they do do them.
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20th June 2010, 13:35
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Where sells these floflex bushes bic?
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20th June 2010, 13:44
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Originally Posted by VTSTomE
Where sells these floflex bushes bic?
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http://www.floflex.co.uk/
They also trade on ebay, is sometimes cheaper goin through their ebay store
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20th June 2010, 13:44
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Originally Posted by VTSTomE
Where sells these floflex bushes bic?
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here; http://www.floflex.co.uk/
just interested tbh bickerton, if theres solid proof they are better ill get some ordered
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20th June 2010, 20:11
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Pete the FloFlex ones do appear to be stiffer items than the purple powerflex ones (not to mention much cheaper)
They havn't been around long enough to confirm how well they compare once theyve had a good bit of use though
However, if you're looking for something much stiffer than the purple powerflex, then you'd be much better looking at the Red Polyrace ones as theyre very very good value for money compared to powerflex items and certainly compared to the powerflex black ones which are similar in stiffness terms
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20th June 2010, 21:31
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wish i bought these lol i fitted powerflex arb bushes and polyrace wishbone bushes, only bought the polyrace ones because they were cheaper, i still need to do my lower g/box mount and rear beam mounts so i think ill be purchasing these 
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20th June 2010, 21:39
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Mine used to make a whining noise when free rolling but since i changed the drop links it doesnt do it no more .
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