Van.hands

Front bushes are nearly worn out and starting to rattle a bit on my 2003 TDI allroad. In searching for replacement bushes, I found a replacement control arm kit for around the same price as it would cost to buy the bushes by themselves. Would reduce my labor time to replace quite a bit. Any thoughts on these unbranded replacement arms?

Thanks.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Front-Co...5af6%7Ciid%3A1

PetrolBear

China products. There are several qualities from terrible (often) to relatively well usable... no experience with them. Nowadays some OEM arms or other equipments are also manufactured there....
I tried the german Dakatec (was good for 2-5 years, rear lower arms went wrong after 2 years but the rest lastet quite well) also from Ebay,
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Querlenk...62-u:rk:1:pf:0
and OEM TRW and Lemförder. More expensive, 2/3 of the orig. Audi (also TRW but with four rings on them) and a bit more durable than Dakatec - but not so much as the first version in the saloon Allroad. The OEM first fitted arms lasted up to 140k miles.
So now the lower arms are now Lemförder and TRW, since 2 years and are still OK.

PetrolBear

At Dakatec we used the orig. pinch bolts, not the aluminum ones!