Any point in replacing ball joints, track rods+ends when putting on powerflex bushes?

[xr2racer]

Car is 05 plate with 45k. As far as I know still on original engine mounts, suspension parts and bushes.

Got a bit of an occasional knock on lift off of hard acceleration and can knock itself out of gear under hard acceleration in 1st.

Going to powerflex the dogbone and thought I may aswell freshen up the upper gearbox and engine mount with new standard mounts while I'm at it and powerflex the arb and lower arms.

Question is any point in doing ball joints, track rods and ends although as far as I can tell there isn't anything wrong them? I hear ball joints are a bit of a weak point and at £12 each from NWPerformance I'm kind of thinking why not? Should I even be thinking about doing this or am I being OCD with wanting things freshened up and shiny?

 

[.Stevo.C.]

Nope I did the exact same thing to my 172 made a big difference to the car.

 

[xr2racer]

Re: Any point in replacing ball joints, track rods+ends when putting on powerflex bus

Do you mean nope don't bother with the ball joints etc or you mean you did everything and it made a big difference?

 

[Daniel]

Re: Any point in replacing ball joints, track rods+ends when putting on powerflex bus

Do as much as you can while you've got the spanners out.

Will drive like a new car; How renault intended!

 

[xr2racer]

Re: Any point in replacing ball joints, track rods+ends when putting on powerflex bus

I'm sold on doing ball joints. Just not sure on benefit of track rods and ends though, be another £100 odd quid + labour?

 

[Daniel]

Re: Any point in replacing ball joints, track rods+ends when putting on powerflex bus

Oh I assumed you were doing it yourself.

 

[Adam G]

Re: Any point in replacing ball joints, track rods+ends when putting on powerflex bus

Might as well

 

[xr2racer]

Re: Any point in replacing ball joints, track rods+ends when putting on powerflex bus

Oh I assumed you were doing it yourself.

Could do some of it but sounds like a pain in the arse to push in new bushes and if I get stuck getting a bolt out I don't really have the equipment (or skill!) to deal with it. Also have a friendly local garage I've been using for years that has < £40 labour costs so removing the risk of me cocking it up and spending hours wanting to destroy the car because I get stuck on something is worth a few hours labour cost to me!