Rear LH lower wishbone

[Debonair V12]

Hi Guys, would anybody have a used rear LH lower wishbone for sale for a 1999 Chimaera?

[drive2tractors]

I have a fairly rough one that might just clean up ok:


happy for you to have it for a minor 'consideration'.
I'll take some better pics later if you're interested. It would need blasting and recoating.
d2t

[drive2tractors]

Better pictures:

[Debonair V12]

Thanks Drive2 but I decided to buy a new wishbone in the end. My old one was perfect until I left it with a local Garage to 'remove' the bushes as I was out of the country. They burnt out the rubber and cut through the outer sleeves of the bushes and right into the wishbone!!

[S7Paul]

Debonair V12 said:

Thanks Drive2 but I decided to buy a new wishbone in the end. My old one was perfect until I left it with a local Garage to 'remove' the bushes as I was out of the country. They burnt out the rubber and cut through the outer sleeves of the bushes and right into the wishbone!!

Shouldn't they be paying for it then?

[Debonair V12]

In a perfect world you would expect them to pay for it but as I took the wishbones to them to remove the bushes for a small cash fee I fear it would be like trying to get blood from a stone! However they have been made aware of their mistake....

[Else]

You shouldn't need to replace them just for that, probably went a bit too deep with the saw blade. Any decent metal fabricating company could weld up the damage and grind/file the area back to shape. Then get them sandblasted and powder coated.

Where are you based, I can help if you're not too far from me..

Andy

[Debonair V12]

Cheers Andy and yes this is the case and I did weld them and hone them to size but as an aircraft engineer I am just being over cautious as I'm getting very hard to please in my old age;) Could have even cut the bush carrier off and replaced that. The old guy doing the job was very competent back in the day but really needs to visit specsavers as the deepest cut was 2.5mm!

[drive2tractors]

Debonair V12 said:

Thanks Drive2 but I decided to buy a new wishbone in the end. My old one was perfect until I left it with a local Garage to 'remove' the bushes as I was out of the country. They burnt out the rubber and cut through the outer sleeves of the bushes and right into the wishbone!!

No probs, shout if things don't work out.
d2t

[Warwick67]

ooo, I've got a full set that needs replacing
Winter job, get them blasted and see if they are worth saving, exhibit a)...

[S7Paul]

Warwick67 said:

ooo, I've got a full set that needs replacing
Winter job, get them blasted and see if they are worth saving

I hope they're more solid than they look! Mine looked like that when I replaced them, and it was only once I'd got them off the car that I realised how bad they really were, and how little strength was left in them (due to the rust). The cross-member could virtually be pulled away from the wishbone by hand.

[Warwick67]

Paul

I hope so too! I've been round the car prodding it, hitting it and trying to pull bits off, I have a background as an Airframe structural engineer so i'm fairly conservative in these things by nature, but then I guess the Chief Engineer of the De Havilland Comet didn't think there was anything wrong with square windows.....

[ewan221]

Just to show the difference with some shot-blasting and powder coating :-)