OK as many know I was getting a conversion last Wed, so instead of getting an MOT & then making arrangments with Porfess, I made arrangments with Profess & got the MOT last Mon (holiday Mon).
It passed the MOT but an advisory was that it needed, top, rear wishbone bushes..then it all went pearshape.
Bushes & wishbones to me are just names I have heard mentioned, know nothing about except they are to do with wheel areas, so, I called in a Lexus I pass past Mon, I almost certainly did not explain I needed bushes for the top wishbone & cant really remeber exactly what I told him except the bushes were to do with rear wheel area.
From whatever it was I said, the guy said he knew what I meant & that it needed lower suspension arms at at least £250 per wheel, that threw me, Ive heard of bushes & thought you simply bought the bushes & the garage fitted them for you (I buy parts, my regular mechanic fits whatever it is). I told Lexus to hold it.
I called in at my regualr mechanics & gave him some blurred story as to what I thought was wrong, he checked & said it was the upper wishbone bushes which need replacing, nothing more unless Lexus have some kind of policy of not supplying bushes but a whole part instead, he does not know.
So can anyone comment on the above, I am sure its familiar to many here but I am in no way mechnical minded or close to that.
I contacted Leon at Profess & said I forfited my deposite, but, he was as good as gold & emailed back saying that if I got the conversion in this next 3 months the deposite is till, what a great place to do buisness with, when things go pear shape & I am out of my depth its noce to see a bright light shining somewhere.
Anyway any comments on the above welcome, I mean a '95 LS, I wonder how much is worth spending on it, if anything. Apart from this whishbone stuff its fine, bone dry underneath, no known corrosion at all & running like a dream - but I feel insecure now, I am well out opf depth on knowledge.