Just collected wife’s 4 y.o ST3 from Service & MOT. Car has done under 15000 miles from new, nobody drives it except wife. Done under 2k miles in the past year..
Rear discs & pads needed replacing. Fair enough, wear n tear items. A bit concerned that the bushes were shot at this age/mileage. All replaced and in fine fettle now tho.
Do others have this issue or a one off? Comments welcome please, just so I can understand this better.
ps. Wife is Not mechanically unsympathetic in any way with her driving.

I wouldn't say they're a common issue but they are known to perish, I replaced mine with PowerFlex bushes after about 5yrs/45k miles. My lads car with approx. 57k miles could do with them replacing also.

 

Yeah, thanks. To me 4yr/15 k seemed early. I wonder if parking in the Sun is a factor too ? Goodyear Eagles put on a year ago we’re noted by MOT Tester to be perishing/ cracking after 2k miles and that’s the only thing I can come up with. 🙄

 

Think I had mine done at 23k. Replaced with powerflex bushes.

 

I've changed mine to Powerflex too at 42k miles. Mine weren't really perished at all, though my car has always lived under cover.

One thing to note, the Powerflex bushes do ride noticeably harsher.

 

Sounds like it spends a fair amount of time parked up as opposed to being driven. So with regards to the tyres, I suspect it isn't being washed and having tyre dressing applied that often.

That, plus the fact you mention the sun, will cause tyres to dry out and crack.

As for the bushes, seen it mentioned a fair bit. The ride is hard so kind of expect bushes to have a bit of a hard life.

 

Sounds like it spends a fair amount of time parked up as opposed to being driven. So with regards to the tyres, I suspect it isn't being washed and having tyre dressing applied that often.

That, plus the fact you mention the sun, will cause tyres to dry out and crack.

As for the bushes, seen it mentioned a fair bit. The ride is hard so kind of expect bushes to have a bit of a hard life.

It has been dormant, parked up for spells of time over the last 15m, like many others. Tyre dressing will be a more regular feature, thanks for the tip.

 

I changed mine after they were an MOT advisory but they looked worse than they actually were.

 

That seems early doors for the bushes to go at such low mileage too, do you park the car up
on a curb on one side at all?

 

That seems early doors for the bushes to go at such low mileage too, do you park the car up
on a curb on one side at all?

After researching…and accepting as a wear ‘n tear item, I guess 4 years isn’t awful. Car parked on our drive, level tarmac surface…South facing tho🙄. Wife says hers should get to stay in the garage rather than my Golf R😂

 

Just changed mine yesterday as they were both split on my ST200, also replaced both rear coil springs as one had broken, hardly surprising given the state of the roads! Car has just over 33k on it.

 

My PS3 began to crack after 2 years.

Just hairline fractures on the tyre shoulder.

 

65k on mine and just had bushes replaced