Mot failuire anti roll bar excessive play?

My car just failed mot because there is excessive play in a bush (on the drop link) to rectify would it be a case of taking out the old bush and putting a new one in or is there more to it than that?|||You've got some very silly answers there !! Of course it depends on the car, some still use replaceable bushes in the links, but most are now one piece links which need to be replaced completely. The anti-roll bar itself will be mounted in bushes but yours are ok. Some links are fitted with tapered swivels which can be a bit difficult to separate. Go to a motor factors and see what they suggest. Good luck!|||Can be a very easy job, as you describe, but it's more difficult on some cars. Tell us what car (model, age) and you might get more specific advice from someone with specific expertise on that car.





Replace all the anti-roll bar bushes at the same time, as another person advised. It may be necessary to undo both sides anyway, so it would be silly to put old ones back on the side that passed.





No need to replace the complete bar. If it was a suspension arm with permanently fitted pivot rubbers and integral ball-joint, etc, then replace the whole thing, but not in this case.|||A decent garage, which yours may not be, would not charge you for a retest on one item if you brought it back in say a few days. Next mot find a reasonable test centre. In Hampshire, Adams Morey, a fairly large company, operate like this. There must be others. I would replace all anti roll bushes as they are all the same age and will fail within a short time of each other.|||you should have let the garage do it its only a ten minute job with the right tools it would onle cost about 拢40 with the part as well with taking it away from the garage for repair you will have to pay a retest fee of about 拢45 on top of the price for doing the job|||The nut/bolt could need tightening up, thats all. Worked for me. A bit of WD40, new split pin, sorted.





You can of course replace the bushes, thats both sides, cant do one with out doing the other.|||All these people know nothing.








Its pointless replacing the bushes, you might aswell replace the entire anti-roll bar.





That will cost a bit more, but its worth it.|||it depends on if the anti-roll bar has serviceable parts, i.e. bushes, your garage should be able to advise, or consult the workshop manuals, such as Haynes.|||It depends what vehicle your talking about,some are very easy others have metalastic bushes that need pressing in with high pressure so i cant really answer your question.|||i would have chgarged you 拢40 to do this during MOT inspection its a 10 minute job