I was trailbraking into a left hander 2 days ago when I heard a 'clink' and a thud. As I was late for work I carried on cautiously but noticed that the car was pulling to the left and there was a horrible noise like the front wheel rubbing under heavy braking.
Today is the first time I've been able to get the car on the lift and have a look:
Broken tuning fork:
Slipped coffin arm bush insert:
Drop link broken:
As you can see, there's an awful lot of damage happened due to the failure of the tuning fork. As you can see from the following pictures it is clear that the polybush didn't allow any 'give' next to its anchor point which led to it fatiguing and then failing:
Without the tuning fork keeping the centre of the wheel pinned in position, under heavy braking the wheel was moving back and rubbing on the leading edge of the front wing. The only think really keeping the hub where it should be was the coffin arm but this was clearly overly stressed in order for the bush insert to move out of the arm.
Needless to say I won't be buying polybushed tuning fork arms again. Good old OE bog standard replacements from now on. I'm obviously going to replace the pair even though only one is damaged along with a new coffin arm.
Could have ended in tears....
:nooo:
Today is the first time I've been able to get the car on the lift and have a look:
Broken tuning fork:
Slipped coffin arm bush insert:
Drop link broken:
As you can see, there's an awful lot of damage happened due to the failure of the tuning fork. As you can see from the following pictures it is clear that the polybush didn't allow any 'give' next to its anchor point which led to it fatiguing and then failing:
Without the tuning fork keeping the centre of the wheel pinned in position, under heavy braking the wheel was moving back and rubbing on the leading edge of the front wing. The only think really keeping the hub where it should be was the coffin arm but this was clearly overly stressed in order for the bush insert to move out of the arm.
Needless to say I won't be buying polybushed tuning fork arms again. Good old OE bog standard replacements from now on. I'm obviously going to replace the pair even though only one is damaged along with a new coffin arm.
Could have ended in tears....
:nooo:
