Genuine Longbridge Delphi Drop Links - 4 year warranty! 10 available - Page 5

Rp61973 · 18th February 2019, 15:22

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Originally Posted by coab

If they can last 100k on a car I wouldn't worry about them being on a shelf in its packaging.

The problem is that many links on cars have dust boots that are beginning to go home, predominately due to the age of the rubber.

It doesn't matter if they have been on a car for 13 years or on a shelf wrapped in wax paper for 13 years. The rubber is still 13 years old and would have degraded. So there is a risk you could fit 13 year old NOS links and see dust boots start to crack shortly thereafter. See my post above on the wing cage rubbers for my P6.

MSS · 18th February 2019, 17:48

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Originally Posted by Rp61973

My 'heavy duty' German TUV approved drop links are now knocking like some deranged debt collector.

I need to change these pronto; if nothing else the driving experience is no longer pleasurable. My car sounds like some errant shopping trolley.

What is the consensus? I am reluctant to shell out on NOS links with 13 year old bonded rubber boots (which can't be replaced if they fail) for £75 or so a pair. Or do I invest in some DMGRS 'made to last' two year guarantee jobbies, pull the boots back and give them a generous dollop of creamy CV grease before I fit them?

May one ask, what make were your German TUV approved drop links?

Rp61973 · 19th February 2019, 08:48

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Originally Posted by mss

May one ask, what make were your German TUV approved drop links?

Sorry MSS, I can't recall. I know they came in a blue box and are nickel plated as opposed to black painted. The box proudly stated their Germanic provenance.

Both links are now clattering away merrily over undulations.

roverbarmy · 19th February 2019, 08:56

I bought some of the "new" replacement rubber boots, carefully removed the old, cracked and torn ones and replaced them, only to find, prior to my MOT, that these "new" ones were split! They don't make rubber, Viton etc., like they used to. Like everything else these days, it seems to have built in obsolescence.

Getting things right takes time, lots of it and some of these "developing" countries are still developing. How many far eastern car companies can you name from the fifties and sixties?

mininuts · 20th February 2019, 12:08

Ok, bit the bullet and just bought one of these from you Mat, (only one because I already had a genuine proper one ‘in stock’).
I’m hoping that it will reach the 120,000 miles that the originals did

I’ve had two sets of ‘genuine’, supposedly quality, drop links in the last 10,000 miles

Not the cheap £9.99 ones either

The one I already have

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mininuts This is my second home Cooper S 210 Join Date: May 2012 Location: Port William Posts: 5,309 Thanks: 5,098 Thanked 2,406 Times in 1,631 Posts	Ok, bit the bullet and just bought one of these from you Mat, (only one because I already had a genuine proper one ‘in stock’). I’m hoping that it will reach the 120,000 miles that the originals did I’ve had two sets of ‘genuine’, supposedly quality, drop links in the last 10,000 miles Not the cheap £9.99 ones either The one I already have __________________ *Paul* 2016 MINI Cooper S 210 : 2000 Rover 75 CDT Classic SE : 2009 Freelander 2 GS : 2000 Mini Cooper Sport : 1986 Mini Mayfair : 1980 Mini Pickup : 1971 Mini Cooper S Last edited by mininuts; 20th February 2019 at 12:19..