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Hi, hoping someone can help, recently purchased some new control arms with powerflex bushes installed. The arms are different to the ones on our van and I was wondering if they can be swapped over.

This is the ones purchased



This is the best pic I can get of the ones fitted



As you can see the new ones have a round hole at the bottom, the old ones are rectangular.

Thanks for any advice that can be giving.

I'm not even sure what we're looking at in any of these photos and surely the bottom pic is a front shock absorber. I give up. Perhaps someone else can have a go.

Hope this picture I found on here helps, the top picture I posted is the control arms purchased.

This picture shows the control arms fitted.



I'm presuming we have the older type control arms and the ones purchased are the newer type, my question is can the control arms be swapped for the newer type?

CovKid wrote:I'm not even sure what we're looking at in any of these photos and surely the bottom pic is a front shock absorber. I give up. Perhaps someone else can have a go.

Yea sorry just found out there actually control arms so updated the title and posts

You have the early type which are presses steel sheet
you have purchased tye late type which are cast
sorry no idea if they are interchangable but id guess they are looking at bentley

i know people who have swapped them over (on a syncro)