My FD has about 21,000 miles on it. I have been reading about people changing their suspension bushings, motor mounts, etc and how much better their cars drove afterwards. However most of them had pretty high mileage.
I am just wondering if I should change them out now, since the car is like 14 years old already, or are they still good since the car has such low mileage?

 

You have at least another 30k miles to go before you you need to worry about your pillowballs. Perhaps another 70k before you need to worry about your rubber bushings.

 

Have them inspected. A good alignment shop will know what to look for. The pillowballs and stuff dont' have much mileage so they're probably quite good.

The mounts and bushings are rubber so age also is a factor. Motor mounts will not last as long if there is a persistent oil leak getting on them.

I doubt you'll find much but inspecting is never a waste of time.

Dave

 

who sells replacement bushings for our suspensions? id like to have a poly bushing set! and summit tells me they dont sell um!

im redoing my whole suspension this summer, with coil overs, sway bars, launch kit from rx7.com, and a kazz locker.. so the bushings will def be done aswell.. I want a tip top suspension..

Props to the thread starter so i didnt have to ask the same question!

 

Thanks for the advice. I was mainly interested in age vs mileage. I guess the most practical thing to do is to just get them inspected. However I do have a set of delrin bushings just sitting here collecting dust.