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If I install the IPD APA/URO 240 Control Arm Bushes, will I despise myself next morning? 200

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posted by  kittysgreyvolvo on  Mon Apr 2 10:11 CST 2012
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Folks,

I seek reassurance.

My 1990 240 DL (li'l red) Wagon (with M47 II and clattering B230 in need of a valve adjust, yet a strong heart) requires, nay, demands a front suspension rebuild.

The most critical are the original factory installed strut mounts on this car. The driver side is nearly failed with tears through it. I made it worse driving around Krapkane, WA, evil town USA, one night when I rode the driver side front wheel up these new intersection dividing curbs while turning left from N. Market street onto E. Frederick a few months ago. Now the beast has a new, matching PN, front steelie, and a new set of used 195 80R 14 tires (70% tread, at four years old) all around. The BF Goodrich tires that came with the car when I bought it in Kirkwood, MO in August 2004 were nearly a decade old.

I have Meyle strut mounts in hand. This wee red beastie needs the rear (large) control arm bushes and also needs the smaller (front) bushings.

So, from iPD we have:
101738 - Front Bushing Kit - Rubber for 240
http://www.ipdusa.com/products/5295/101738-front-bushing-kit-rubber

These are APA/URO.

The Meyle strut mounts may be bad enough or not. While I advocate the Volvo OEM of SKF brand 240 strut mount, should I avoid the Meyle stut mount.

This 1990 240 DL wagon (245) was in a front end collision in 1999 or so. The passenger side A-pillar has a weld near where the A-pillar meets the roof. Underneath the front end, the lower cross-member that support the radiator, grille, headlight, and so forth was not well secured to the left unibody frame rail. This car has rust at the passenger front door bottom fold, a small floor board rust hole under the passenger seat, and a rust hole in the driver side rear quarter panel. I can repair all of these rust issues, in time. I simply don't like body work much. I'll also need a new exhaust from the manifold all the way back soon.

So, will I regret the Meyle strut mounts and the URO/APA control arm bushing set for 240?

Can you suggest other brands not so costy? Should I look at Moog/TRW for bushes and strut mounts?

Or am a huge hypocrite?

Please advise.

Thanks, RWD drivin' Folks.

Unemployed Technical Writer
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Oooooh, exciting, a job in Idaho?






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