Suspension Bushes - Upgrade items?

[powerandtorque]

My eBay Partner P-bushes failed fairly quickly - less than 10k motorway miles on them certainly.

On one the bonding between the rubber and the inner metal sleeve was failing and there was the beginning of cracks appearing, and on the other, there was significant cracks/splits in the rubber all the way through. Not as bad as standard P-bushes can get certainly, but certainly not good for only being on the car 4 months odd and with comparatively easy use plodding up and down the motorway.

I'd pressed them on in the correct place for a mildly lowered car so that the bush had minimum pre-load on it, so I'm not sure why they failed so soon when others on here seem to have had no issues - maybe I was unlucky and I got a duff batch, or maybe I've put more miles on than most.

To their credit the company (EAP) replaced them free of charge under warranty after I sent them pictures of the bushes without the faff of returning the old ones, and coincidentally the replacements landed on my desk today.

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The pictures of the failed Partner P-bushes...