Yet at lower speeds and over poorly surfaced tarmac the 3008 feels a little out of sorts, and there's the same feeling that the chassis components are all hanging together with
soft rubber bushings that movements aren't particularly well controlled.
Taking even more of the compliance out, by replacing
soft rubber bushes with harder polyurethane or metal spherical joints, will control the wheels more accurately maximising the surface area in contact with the tarmac.
Not exact matches
Manufactured from 90 - durometer polyurethane, BMR's
bushings kits are a huge improvement over the dry rotted, worn - out,
soft rubber factory
bushings.
The
soft rubber factory
bushings do nothing to help deter this.
They replace the
soft rubber OE
bushing with a rigid spherical bearing for increased handling and performance, but sacrifice noise and comfort.
Losing those
soft, squishy
rubber bushings means there's now a solid base for the suspension to react against, and engineers say that direct connection into the body structure improves steering feel too.
Horrible camber curves, binding sway bars and control arm
bushings, bump steer, lots of
soft rubber to eliminate any hope of maintaining what little geometry you have, etc..