"WHY POLYURETHANE SUSPENSION BUSHES?"

 

Time to do some sums...

Polyurethane has been with us as a specialised plastic for some thirty years. However recent advances have now made it possible to engineer very special properties into this exciting material. Suspension bushes are some of the most highly stressed components fitted to a motor car. They undergo enormous strains and in the most arduous of conditions with no maintenance or lubrication. The material they are manufactured from is a rubber compound containing natural products which deteriorate with age. It becomes softer and more pliable, resisting the forces placed on it less and less. Therefore allowing more and more movement of suspension components and offering less and less control over the suspension geometry. This in turn causes accelerated tyre wear, braking instability and poor handling. This is the single biggest reason you can instantly tell the difference driving a three year old car compared to a showroom new one. However even new cars will benefit from POWERFLEX bushes because of their superior design they offer much more effective control of the suspension components to a much greater extent than normal rubber items.

With the technological advances in this material it has been possible to overcome the common problem associated with harder bushes which is increased noise. By correctly engineering the polyurethane compound, bushes can be made 25-30% stiffer than new rubber items but with exactly the same noise absorbing properties. POWERFLEX bushes make sense.

• POWERFLEX for prolonged tyre life.
• POWERFLEX for improved performance.
• POWERFLEX for increased safety.

 

Lifetime Warranty

Powerflex are proud to offer a Lifetime Warranty on the entire range of products we manufacture.

This Warranty applies to the original purchaser. The only conditions that we attach to this Warranty are:

• That in the event of an issue you contact us directly at info@speedparts.se and give as much information as possible to enable us to help you. This will involve giving us details of the installation and any changes made to the car, photos of failed parts and the installation.
• Warranty is restricted to the replacement of the supplied goods, but no consequential loss (e.g. carriage charges, garage labour costs, vehicle recovery, car hire, loss of earnings, etc.) from any resulting problems.

We have taken this decision because of the confidence that we have both in our products and also in the way that we have handled any warranty issues in the past.

We have never had a time period based warranty policy because we have always treated issues that customers have had as an opportunity to learn.

Where a problem has occurred due to incorrect fitting, we have always asked ourselves if the reason for the error was due to poor fitting instructions.

When we have had a part failure we have tried to understand if the part was being used outside of its design parameters, perhaps on a race car running slick tyres. In cases like this, should we be offering a specific motorsport compound?

Like all manufacturing we have had the occasional material quality issue and in these cases we have always replaced parts without question.

So now we have decided to formalise our open and honest policy and boast about it!

We will replace any Powerflex product that any customer in the world is unhappy with for any reason.

What we ask in return is that anyone wanting replacement parts contacts us directly and sends as much information as possible which will help us determine the reason for a problem. 
 

Color matters

The Powerflex bushes comes in different colors
The red ones are the softest and the black ones are the hardest

REMOVAL GUIDE

1. A blow torch may be necessary to burn the old rubber bush out of the arm
2. Using a tube, a socket and a vice it is often easy to remove an old bush like this.
3. Some bushes have a metal outer sleeve which will always need to be removed. Push or burn out the old rubber, the outer sleeve is then clear to see (top left picture), then cut the metal outer sleeve along its length with a hacksaw.
Cut until the saw blade becomes tight. This means you have cut through the outer sleeve and the tension has clamped the blade.
4. Bushes with a flange can be chiseled out (especially useful on Escort mk 5, 6, 7).
5. Some more difficult bushes can be removed by drilling through the outer sleeve.	Left picture - drill through the outer sleeve to cut it and relieve the tension Centre picture - cut only the outer sleeve Right picture - bush will now be easy to cut out