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Re: Perhaps the poly bushings made it worse?
Posted by Recovering Volvophile [Email] (more from Recovering Volvophile) on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 07:34:05
In Reply to: Perhaps the poly bushings made it worse?, Mark, Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:27:55
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Yes. I have the Bilstein sport struts poly bushings, poly tranny mount,etc. I think the system has to "give" at some point. The subframe, judging by other posts I have found, and my observations, seems to be a crash structure intended on failing/folding in a collision. Taking the shock absorbing rubber bushings out of the equation along with various braces etc....one just doesn't get the sloppy flex which may have been allowed to spread over a larger area. I'm hopeful that the broader stanchion bushings will give me a larger footprint and less stress on the bolt hole. Otherwise with my mileage I'll be replacing it a gain in a few years. Sigh. Dealer says it happens with the regular unmodified versions (mine has stage 2 Nordic), around 80k miles. Assumng these are normal non-self worked on vehicles I can only assume the issue with bolts backing out and needing to be re-torqued aggravate their situation. I'm able to bend the subframe fairly easily, it's soft.
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