When the time comes, hopefully not for a few more years I will change to the hard chrome ones, definitely worth the extra outlay.
Years? I have seen cars that are 18 months old with 6,000 miles on the clock, the owners 'claim' regular greasing and yet the lower bushes are completely shot, a combination of mild steel pins with surface rust, the car laid up over winter and all the mileage done in the spring/summer so the bottom of the kingpin was like a rasp eating through the lower bush was my diagnosis! If that's anyone's driving pattern (it's a lot like mine ;-)) I would advise lower gaiters and a spray of motorbike chain lube all over the rebound spring before you eventually fit hardchromes pins and spiral grooved PB bushes. Job done for many years then. PS 'extra outlay'? The difference between the costs of the pins is very little, from memory about £10 but I am not sure as I won't fit anything other than Hardchromes.
