Date:         Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:05:29 -0500
Reply-To:     Ed McLean <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Ed McLean <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject:      Re: Front end bushings -' 88 GL

Jim, I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you on this.

The most expensive option is original design upper control arm bushings.

If you consider the price of a couple of sets of original design
bushings, the price of labor of replacing them a couple of times, a
couple of alignments, and probably the price of replacing a set of tires
with worn out inside edges, there is nothing more expensive than
original.  And this is only for maybe 40,000 miles, at the very best.
And this doesn't begin to include the personal cost of the aggravation
of not being able to fix something so simple.

Been there, done that.

Now, I agree there is a bit of price difference in the various
aftermarket upgrade bushings but this difference is small change
compared to the "total" price of original.

Ed



On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:19:16 +0000, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>Thanks, Chris, but remember who you are talking to here. On the Vanagon
>group, the better solution is always the more expensive one.