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Prothane Control Arm Bushings - where to get?
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:31 pm
by jonnymopar
Does anybody know where to get the Prothane front control arm bushing set other than Modern Performance? I do like Modern and I've bought from them in the past, but $17 to ship a $35 part that you can stick in a padded envelope??
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:34 pm
by excon
i think you're going to have to bite the bullet. I just tried searching and i couldn't find anyone else.
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:00 pm
by racer12306
looks like summit only has Energy front control arm bushings.
plus, summit is the same way. every order gets a $10 or so handling fee, but the shipping is free. if you have other stuff to order it works out though.
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:05 pm
by ZeroChad
I've ordered a few things from Never Enought Auto before. They're a pretty good company, and about 2hr from my house. It looks like they have the prothane kit
HERE. I'm not sure what shipping is though.
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:09 pm
by racer12306
looks like the $43 includes shipping.
Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 10:31 pm
by occasional demons
racer12306 wrote:looks like the $43 includes shipping.
Application:
00-05 Dodge Neon
03-05 Dodge Neon SRT4
01-06 Chrysler PT Cruiser
Free Shipping
So it's basically $8 for shippng; comparing to Modern.
Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 2:12 am
by jT
http://www.ajusa.com/details/index/633/0/0/PTP+4-214
$35+$9 shipping, free shipping on $75+ orders
red or black
http://www.suspension.com/neon.htm
they got it for $31 in black. possibly with $5 shipping, but i dont know if it would fit in the small flat rate box (i dont think it would)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... 0421531024
ebay 37+7
Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:14 pm
by neonslg09
excon wrote:i think you're going to have to bite the bullet.
i would do the same and for mainly the sole fact that you can trust modern. dunno about those other sites...
some of them can be prettyyy sketchy.
Re: Prothane Control Arm Bushings - where to get?
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 1:09 am
by hansken_yo
jonnymopar wrote:Does anybody know where to get the Prothane front control arm bushing set other than Modern Performance? I do like Modern and I've bought from them in the past, but $17 to ship a $35 part that you can stick in a padded envelope??
When I ordered mine it cost me $45 shipped. Did they actually quote you $17 for shipping? When I order through them i do not use their internet ordering. I actually call my requests in. I dunno what happened here, but I've never found them to be unreasonable or even unreliable. Weird.
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 9:29 am
by jonnymopar
Unreliable, never. I've always had good luck with Modern. Granted, I've always ordered stuff that was a bit more expensive, so shipping didn't seem so bad. I haven't called them, but the online shipping quote was $17.07 after I entered my address.
I almost went with the Energy Suspension set, but I've been getting mixed reviews on it. Meanwhile, I haven't heard one bad thing about the Prothane set.
I'm going to check out all those links to see if there's somewhere I can get bushings for the Daytona and the Neon at the same time. They both need them badly.
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 9:39 am
by hansken_yo
I would not recommend the energy kit what so ever. Prothane is extremely easy to install and has been very reliable whereas the energy was not.
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 2:20 pm
by jonnymopar
That's some of what I'm hearing. As far as difficulty of installation, I don't care about that. I've got an arbor press and all the tools to do it the right way. The premature failures that I'm hearing about are what's keeping me from the Energy kit.
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 5:42 pm
by jonnymopar
ZeroChad wrote:It looks like they have the prothane kit
HERE
We have a winner. I got my hopes up when I saw 87-91 Daytona listed, but they only had sway bar kits, no bushings. Hey, score for $42. Many thanks to Chad.
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 11:43 am
by NickKo
Just a quick update for this thread....
I just called Modern Performance, to check on placing an order for these....
Currently, shipping is only $8.00 ($42 shipped). Cool.
- Nick
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 2:39 pm
by c987long
NickKo wrote:Just a quick update for this thread....
I just called Modern Performance, to check on placing an order for these....
Currently, shipping is only $8.00 ($42 shipped). Cool.
- Nick
sounds better than 17$ for shipping
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:44 pm
by jonnymopar
I guess their website is still messed up. Just for the hell of it, I put a set of those bushings in my shopping cart and checked out and the cheapest shipping option was $11.81. Moot point now anyway since the bushings were installed back last June.
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:46 pm
by nerox
Just got mine ordered for $44.45 including shipping to the UK
thats from neverenough auto