Rear arms life span….

[sworks]

The 75 has been a bit neglected the last year with only being used as a backup car or whilst rotating the fleet to keep the battery charged. It’s had a good looking over this weekend and it needs new rear arms where the spring sits. Not unusual but these were replaced 7 years ago….. The car was off the road for a few months as parts weren’t available and as soon as parts could be bought they were collected from a local XPart dealer and fitted. There was talk on the forum a few months later about the quality of the parts which now seems appropriate. The car has covered about 12,000 miles since they were fitted and it’s annoying that the originals lasted just over half that of the originals even though they were treated and coated before fitment.

[Bob Walker]

DMGRS arms seem to be a beefed up version with a better finish.
Have you Waxoyled them? Or tried LanoShield
https://www.ashtonmarineservices.co....extended-hose/
Met the chap from the company at the Classic Car Show in November, I have heard good reports about it but yet to try it.
Bob

[sworks]

They were treated before fitting. The DMGRS ones will be fitted next

[macafee2]

I painted my new ones with por15. It is quite expensive but does see to offer decent protection.

macafee2

[Matt_75]

Originally Posted by macafee2

I painted my new ones with por15. It is quite expensive but does see to offer decent protection.

macafee2

I used POR15 for my Dolomite brake back plates. Two years on and they still look great. As you said, expensive but good stuff.

[vitesse]

“From an X-part dealer” - sounds like these were from the batch that failed the “Mr.Kipling” test, and arms with offset mountings still appear on eBay.

I sold my pair of SAIC arms (from DMGRS) to a local owner in desperate need and replaced them with DMGRS’ own - all credit to the little guy who supplies superior arms.

Here’s the original thread where “sworks” mentions replacing the upper arms.
https://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/for...d.php?t=301414

You can slap on lots of coats of paint on the X-part arms but it won't improve the sub-standard workmanship, or prevent them from buckling (see minimutly's comment in the link).

Waste of good paint.

Regards

[sworks]

Originally Posted by vitesse

“From an X-part dealer” - sounds like these were from the batch that failed the “Mr.Kipling” test, and arms with offset mountings still appear on eBay.

I sold my pair of SAIC arms (from DMGRS) to a local owner in desperate need and replaced them with DMGRS’ own - all credit to the little guy who supplies superior arms.

Here’s the original thread where “sworks” mentions replacing the upper arms.
https://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/for...d.php?t=301414

You can slap on lots of coats of paint on the X-part arms but it won't improve the sub-standard workmanship, or prevent them from buckling (see minimutly's comment in the link).

Waste of good paint.

Regards

Thanks for the link, I remember Brian finding them to be poor quality after I’d fitted mine. My car was off the road so I bought some as soon as I could. They look scabby but not too bad but once you go prodding and poking they are rotten and need replaced as soon as possible. Quite disappointing considering sold via XPart.

[biffa75]

There's three versions of arms available

Dmgrs
Xpart aftermarket (the Indian made arms)
Xpart genuine arms which are made in china. Tidy spots welds that are consistent and the heaviest of the three sets and well coated inside and out. We now fit the xpart genuine arms

[Arctic]

Hi Robert.
I think we would all agree with the above, but unless you stipulate that you want the Chinese arms you can bet that you will be sent Indian arms by Xpart and any other seller whom has both, reason being how else would they get rid of them.

As for Chinese being the heaviest of the three sets available i cannot comment on because i have not had any.

Regarding DMGRS having only read good reports about them, there is a but, supposedly the best on the market as far as anyone can say.

With the statement above it would always be wise to contact DMGRS because they too had a bad batch of arms, therefore careful consultation with them would be the best way forward, i don't know what happened to that bad batch of arms ? maybe they would like to let us know.

The Indian arms i would not have if you gave them to me, i have said before there are most likely thousands out there in stock with seller's, what are they going to do with them, i doubt anyone one this forum would purchase them.

I managed to get a full rear sub frame with top and bottom arms, anti roll bar and drop links original for my car the Tourer, from a local seller whom got them from Spain they were like new just out of the factory, for £300
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So moral is everyone should keep well away from the Indian arms, buy DMGRS which you know is 100% better, and of Chinese ones if you are 100% sure that is what you will receive.

[vitesse]

Exactly Steve, how do we know which of the Xpart ones are fit for purpose? We don’t.

If you look at the eBay adverts from Xpart there’s nothing which states where they are made, the only clues are visual ones. Are the mounting points offset? Is the spring cup centrally placed? Or you could just buy a much cheaper lottery ticket.

My SAIC ones were stamped “Made in China” although I can’t remember if it was just some Chinese logo or not but there was some identification.

Another factor which plays an important part in my mind is the ease of contact when things go wrong. When Xpart sent me the wrong headlights it took ages to sort out (thanks Simon), whereas Mat values their reputation and sorts things out immediately. A recent post about a failed shock absorber shows the value of dealing with “the little guy”.

It would be nice to know how many DMGRS suspension arms have been sold.

Keep well