Which wishbones ?

Hi whitch wishbones are you guys using ?brought the ones off eBay got 3k out of them and there knackered so need some new again advice needed cheers .

Lemforder wishbones from Eurocarparts are fine. I also hear the TRW wishbones are OK.

I'd avoid Delphi (poor nut alignment on the one I tried) and wouldn't touch another original Fiat wishbone if they were giving them away for free, even on the one I got from my local Fiat dealer the nuts were made of cheese.

2nd vote for Lemforder ��

3rd for Lemforder

I can vouch for Original Birth lower arms good oe quality

I also got a pair of Lemförder

Aye, Lemforder. They do lot of stuff for the upper market of cars.

i purchased FEBI BILSTEIN Made in germany ... opps VW

TRW and Birth are spot on

I remember that the general consensus used to be to use original fiat only which were about twice the price probably about three times now!
Has there been a shift in quality (upwards for pattern parts) or (downwards for genuine?)
Be interesting to know! Presumably you can't mix the different aftermarket arms with each other or the fiat ones?

IME original Fiat wishbones are worthless due to the sub-standard quality of the nuts being used now.

I had two original Fiat wishbones from a 3rd party supplier and one from my local Fiat dealer and at least 1 nut on all three wishbones completely stripped the thread *way* before getting even close to the correct torque. And that was using brand new Fiat supplied bolts fully inserted by hand before tightening.

A few other people have had similar problems with Fiat wishbones too.

EuroCar Parts have a good offer on Lemforder at the moment

[quote=Submariner]I can vouch for Original Birth lower arms good oe quality [/quot

mine arrived yesterday , they are original birth, both sides for 59 quid, item number 150952614789.

on the sks website, lemforder are 100 quid for both sides [ inc vat ].

Have a look here supposed to be genuine you can get both sides but from Italy

Look at this on eBay:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/291477328052

FIAT COUPE' MAREA ALFA 145 146 BRACCIO OSCILLANTE ANT.46474556 60813013

Yeah there are some bargains to be had over there as long as the postage is reasonable!

I have done ok so far all have been genuine and as described!