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I just bought some from ebay. 220947427744. He has loads.
The picture of the bag is exactly the same as the ones supplied by Marlin - I remember the yellow label. (Strange really, as sometimes I forget what day it is but I can remember a yellow label from 5 years ago haha....)
Ooh, er we've started a new rubber (bushes) fetish!
I popped in my local motor factors (Car Parts Direct) this afternoon and picked up two new ones at £1.99 each (plus Vat) so only £9.55 for four, all in. The other two will be in tomorrow afternoon.
They are made by Pearl High tech parts (who I have never heard off!) and are part number PB17. They seem to be very hard runbber so getting them in looks like fun
I just bought some from ebay. 220947427744. He has loads.
The picture of the bag is exactly the same as the ones supplied by Marlin - I remember the yellow label. (Strange really, as sometimes I forget what day it is but I can remember a yellow label from 5 years ago haha....)
Cheers
Robin
Robin - double check your bushes. I ordered some new ones from the same chap, from the same eBay listing, and they don't fit. John (Oaktree) ordered some as well, and his are the same as mine. The inner tube of the bush is approx. 2mm larger in diameter than the old bushes.
Robin (and anyone else who may have purchased these bushes from the same eBay listing),
John and I have been in contact with the Graham the seller, and are sending our bushes back. On closer inspection of my consignment, there are two different types - one with the correct rounded end profile and 10mm tube in the middle, and one with the beveled profiles and larger 12mm tube:
This lead me to believe that Graham's supplier has sent him two distinct types under the same part number.
Graham has now checked this (He's opened up 10 packets so far, and they're all a mixture of the two) so it looks as if this is the case. He's replacing mine and John's order with the correct ones.
So - check your bushes. If they have a round profile, like the one in the left of the pics above, you should be ok. But just to be safe, get your callipers out and measure the inner tube diameter.
TBH, the ones on the left of your pictures don't look right to me either. (They have bulging sides?)
And it may be the photo but the quality of the rubber on the left one looks somewhat suspect.
I'll take some pictures of mine later as I've only got around to refitting one side....
Scroll down to page 7 and it shows this part number as for Sierra Scorpio. Peter
Pete, thanks for this but I don't think the part number/application is in question.
I think it is just this particular eBay supplier has got his parts mixed up.
