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 Post subject: Re: EL Steering problems
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:31 pm 
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I was quoted $206 each (fitted/balanced) for 225/60R15's - from Tyrepower.

 

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 Post subject: Re: EL Steering problems
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:34 pm 
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I've got the ZE 329's they are dear enough but are quite good very quiet compared to my oid ones and also very good in the wet, how much are the 912's per tyre?


Well... I'll warn you now, if you have front end bush problems, i'd get it fixed like tomorrow or you wont be having those tyres for long.
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 Post subject: Re: EL Steering problems
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:03 pm 
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Greenmachine wrote:
I was quoted $206 each (fitted/balanced) for 225/60R15's - from Tyrepower.


Christ that's dear for 15's!

 

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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:03 pm 
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Timmy97EL wrote:
I've got the ZE 329's they are dear enough but are quite good very quiet compared to my oid ones and also very good in the wet, how much are the 912's per tyre?


Well... I'll warn you now, if you have front end bush problems, i'd get it fixed like tomorrow or you wont be having those tyres for long.


Yeah i'm getting it looked at tomorrow.

 

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 Post subject: Re: EL Steering problems
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:22 pm 
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Had all the front end bushe's checked out this week and apparently they are all fine. Now i'm back to square one as to whats wrong with the steering.

I suppose "tramlining" might be the cause although it does not seem to describe exactly what the problem is i'm having with the steering

 

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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:31 pm 
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Have been replaced in the past under your ownership? Or at all?

If not, I'd still do them.

As I said, with the original rubber bushes, they are near impossible to tell if they are rooted on a hoist. They need loads on them to do that.
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Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:29 am 
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Timmy97EL wrote:
Greenmachine wrote:
I was quoted $206 each (fitted/balanced) for 225/60R15's - from Tyrepower.


Christ that's dear for 15's!


Haha - yeah well, this is Cairns - so you can NEVER find any f--king thing you want locally "sorry mate, gotta get that up from Townsville or Brisbane" - and then to top it off you get screwed for price.

Good example - went to the Bunnings warehouse place in town - huge place similar to the one/s in Townsville. Was looking for foldup chairs - in Towsville Bunnings there's about 30 different types - at this Cairns place there were - wait for it: 3.... And a shop stooge who overheard my wife say something along the lines of "oh, this must be the wrong section - they can't only have 3 types" got REALLY snotty and border line abused us in the process of "explaining" that we did indeed have the folding chairs section!!!

 

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 Post subject: Re: EL Steering problems
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:10 pm 
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Have been replaced in the past under your ownership? Or at all?

If not, I'd still do them.

As I said, with the original rubber bushes, they are near impossible to tell if they are rooted on a hoist. They need loads on them to do that.


Not while iv'e had the car anyway, yeah i think i will get them done anyway.

 

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 Post subject: Re: EL Steering problems
Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 5:44 pm 
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Well iv'e just handed back the rex to my brother, a fairly different drive to the falcon.

A question, should i just replace the lower control arm bushes or just replace the whole lot and how much would i be up for if i did the whole lot?

Thanks.

 

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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 6:34 pm 
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so arm79.../are u basically saying that the only way to check the bush properly is to remove the arm completely and have a look?

also i remeber u saying a while ago that u have replaced yours a couple of times and that they dont last very long...is that right?

 

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