Peninsula tubular wishbones
Peninsula tubular wishbones
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pupp

Original Poster:

12,948 posts

301 months

Monday 9th May 2005
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Anyone know if they are still available? Any views?

spend

12,581 posts

280 months

Monday 9th May 2005
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Like mine, but a bugger to grind off to get clearance past the steering upper UJ + still fouls when jacked up!

Dave

Marco

1,727 posts

313 months

Tuesday 10th May 2005
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Just a thought - aren't the wishbones designed to be sacrificial and bend instead of the chassis in the case of non serious impact? If you replace them with strong tubular versions do you have to be prepared for a knock that could have resulted in a grand's worth of damage possibly writing off the car?


Marco

MajorClanger

749 posts

299 months

Tuesday 10th May 2005
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Marco said:
Just a thought - aren't the wishbones designed to be sacrificial and bend instead of the chassis in the case of non serious impact? If you replace them with strong tubular versions do you have to be prepared for a knock that could have resulted in a grand's worth of damage possibly writing off the car?


Marco
You may have a point there. Although I didn't think they were intended to be stronger, just less prone to corrosion, the tubular design may well prove to be 'stronger' in some orientations than the original design... certainly their characteristics are bound to be different.

I haven't heard anything about these for a while. Last I heard (July 2003) was that they were having to rethink the design to get around a fouling problem. Has anyone spoken to them to get it from the horses mouth!?

MC