S2 3500 Auto front suspension rebuild parts list

Hi,

We also blasted and inspected our rear suspension elbows during the prep'ing of our car, they were very sound and I didn't add any extra metal. As you know our car is used heavily and we had no rear end reliability issues at all while the Rover stuff was in there, the only thing we would observe is deformation around the bump stop area on the rear trailing arms. Heavy landings do damage this area…………….. really heavy landings break the rear discs as these tend to hit the road :shock:

In my opinion failure in this area is really down to corrosion.

Tim
 
pat180269 said:
Here is the thread

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I remember the thread now, and the forum member involved, but I'd forgotten that it was a fatal. I hope he's continuing to make a recovery, and it's a tragedy for the person that died and their friends/family.

The elbows are a known weak point, so checking them is made all the more important in the light of the above.

I've seen and worked on a few failures, but none that have had such a serious outcome, so I can only assume that like a lot of these things it's the combination of a series of factors that combine to cause the worst.
 
harveyp6 said:
The elbows are a known weak point, so checking them is made all the more important in the light of the above.
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The problem is until the surface rust is removed its difficult to check. I cleaned up the replacement elbow and painted it. The one I took off terrified me because it was bad and the welding was appalling so I was alive to the issues when I gave it a good looking over. However when it was blasted it looked bad and was weakened. It seems to corrode from the inside out so its impossible to make a judgement with the lower link fitted. I'm surprised in light of the accident and subsequent investigation that the MOT hasn't insisted that these areas are inspected on P6's during the MOT test
 
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