Proline Bushings

LRDONE

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Dec 3, 2020
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How do the proline bushings hold up vs the oem stuff? Any complaints? The price point is nice compared to the oem stuff as long as I’m not doing bushings every 10 minutes.
 

Siia109

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Sep 12, 2021
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I am neither the expert or have I done a boat load of bushing replacements. But the only poly bushings I ever had when they failed they actually crumbled and fell out of placement. which then had metal to metal which let me know pretty quick that it was time for replacement. I have the original bushings in my NAS D90 - they all need to be replaced and I can see most have failed or given up the ghost - but none of them have crumbled and fallen out of place.
I not off roading every weekend - or even every month - but they are not falling off. This is the main reason I will stay with rubber bushings they do their job for 30 years and 98K miles.... I don't think it will matter to me in another 30 years.
 

ERover82

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SuperPro are probably the best poly bushings, but rubber is still the way. Edit: I read "proline" as "poly". Proline is probably the same as OEM.
 

kris812

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PROLINE as best I could tell was a 'brand' only 1 rover shop sold. Couldn't find that product anywhere else. It was a brake booster.

BUT as for the POLY convo, full Poly here. NOT the best of ideas for on-road usage. Made my TF springs TerribleFirma
 

ERover82

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Proline is Rovers North's house brand. Poly is generally firmer which leads to more feedback, but it has nothing to do with the coils.