POWERFLEX

The Powerflex brand was established back in 1996 to take advantage of the significant advances made in the development of polyurethane. Their parent company had wide experience of automotive suspension and chassis systems and combined these design skills with advanced polyurethane manufacturing techniques to develop the wide range of high performance automotive polyurethane bushes now known the world over as Powerflex.

The company operates from a self-contained state of the art factory, manufacturing everything inhouse. Component manufacturing is carried out with the latest automatic processing equipment ensuring 100% right first time quality. The stainless steel components are machined on the latest computer controlled equipment to ensure perfect repeatability and quality. Testing of new components is carried out both on the vehicle and on test rigs.

Technical
Suspension bushes are some of the most highly stressed components on a motor vehicle. They undergo enormous strains in the most arduous of conditions with no maintenance or lubrication and are manufactured from a rubber compound containing natural products which deteriorates with age. It becomes softer and more pliable over time, allowing more movement of suspension components and therefore less control over the suspension geometry. This causes accelerated tyre wear, braking instability and poor handling. It is the main reason a three year old car feels so different to drive than a brand new one.

The answer to the degradation of rubber bushes is Polyurethane. It has been with us as a specialised plastic for some forty years but advances in the 90's made it possible to engineer very special properties into this exciting material. First, polyurethane does not age like rubber and from new is 25-30% stiffer, thus providing much better suspension control. Secondly, harder bushes used to mean increased NHV (noise, vibration and harshness) but polyurethane has the same noise absorbing properties as rubber, hence the best of both worlds!

Warranty
Powerflex now offer a Lifetime Warranty on their entire range of products. This warranty applies to the original purchaser.
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