mk4 gti rear sway bar

[Gravey]

hey fellas, thanks for the advice, i've ordered the whiteline 22mm adjustable swaybar and it should be here in a few days. got it for a bargain too! just under $200 shipped in. (dunno how as others wanted between $300-350)

they're easy enough to fit yeh?

cheers

-- audi

Where did you end up picking it up from?

[audi-tone]

I got it from Burson Automotive, great service. ordered it yesterday, he said 2-3days and was there today for a grand total of $192.50!
other places wanted $310 and $330 i was like i hope it's the right one! but it is, gonna put it on tomorrow or the weekend!
Thanks fellas.

[McDub]

McDub, have you or the previous owner (if there was one) fitted an aftermarket rear swaybar? The MkIV golfs, bar the R32 did not come with a factory rear sway bar, only the front.

That is why im confused when you're saying that your rear sway bar bushes need replacing.

Look at the following images. If you look under the back of your car, do you see anything that looks like the sway bars in the pics?

ahh ok so the GTI doesn't have one. i'm pretty sure when i casually mentioned the squeaking to seb, he said it would be the bushings in the rear sway bar. perhaps he thought i said a squeak in the front, or one of us was just mistaken.
hmmmm so i guess i might consider getting one then!
(i purchased the car stock)

and so the squeak is possibly the rear axle bushing hey... think i'll let that slide for now... it's only a minor creaking sound. oh yeah it's more of a creaking sound rather than a squeaking sound...

sway bars... so where's some good places to get them locally? (cos ordering them off ecs tuning would cost an arm and a leg for shipping!)

[RedMk2Gti]

I'd re-upload them, but for some reason, I can't attach an image?
Only option is to provide a URL to the image.

I believe our friendly admin guys has disabled the attachment feature of this site. You need to upload them to photobucket or similar and then put the image url link. I don't mind doing that if you send me the pic

[madglf3]

I got it from Burson Automotive, great service. ordered it yesterday, he said 2-3days and was there today for a grand total of $192.50!
other places wanted $310 and $330 i was like i hope it's the right one! but it is, gonna put it on tomorrow or the weekend!
Thanks fellas.

Hey mate,

I tried to get it today and for the 22mm adj blade type it came to around $250 delivered. Which shop did you go through and did you get a trade discount?

[audi-tone]

i went through burson automotive at brendale,
give em a call, i may have got lucky, who knows. $250 is still a good price though

4/227 Leitchs Rd
Brendale QLD 4500
(07) 3889 9522


ps, fitted it today, shall see how it goes, feels more responsive around corners, a bit more planted on the road i guess you would say. thinking about the front swaybar now.
question, if i get the front swaybar would that mean the original comes off and i wont have to replace the factory bushings that are wearing out?!?

[geoff_gti]

Hey guys, I've just read through this and several previous threads about rear sway bars as I'm looking at this for my car.

I can't really justify paying an extra $200-300 for Neuspeed or H&R after reading on here - it's a daily drive not a track car so Whiteline adjustable seems to be the consensus as a good all-round unit.

I came across another Aust-based brand, 'Selby', but haven't heard of them before. Oettinger also have a kit but I'm not sure if that's one of the other brands re-badged or not.

Hopefully I'm on the right track! Audi-tone & others, any follow up comments to this?
Cheers

[geoff_gti]

my mate has a 28mm neuspeed for sale its been on the car 3 months hes gone back to stock wants $300.00 for it, its red and bolts up way nicer that the whitline ones. up to you how good you want it.

Did this sell- Further info maybe, hollow/solid etc?

[audi-tone]

hey dude, the whiteline stuff's great. the car feels 20x more responsive. as i said, i paid $192 for mine which was a bargain considering what others wanted.
good luck with it.

[tcran]

Guys,

I know that this thread is a bit old, but I thought I would say this anyway...

I saw this thread and got a bit excited as I wanted to get the whiteline rear sway, but the lowest quote I got was $252.00. So I gave these guys at Burson a ring and got quoted $250!
I told them that on the forums a guy got one from them for $190, he replied I'll see what I can do, and I now have one on order for an even $200.

Interesting how they lower the price when challenged...

[dylan8]

Guys,

I know that this thread is a bit old, but I thought I would say this anyway...

I saw this thread and got a bit excited as I wanted to get the whiteline rear sway, but the lowest quote I got was $252.00. So I gave these guys at Burson a ring and got quoted $250!
I told them that on the forums a guy got one from them for $190, he replied I'll see what I can do, and I now have one on order for an even $200.

Interesting how they lower the price when challenged...

Nice! you can also contact whiteline/redranger directly to cut out the middle man.

[blackers10]

I know in dredging up an ancient thread here...
I just picked up a whiteline 22mm non adjustable swaybar from Camden gti and I'm trying to confirm how it bolts on as obviously it has no instructions.

From my understanding the brackets require 4 bolt holes to be drilled into the beam axle and from pictures I am not sure if I need longer hock bolts or if I need a piece of square metal tube to space out another set of mounts from the shock mount if that makes sense.

The newer bars have a clamp with a u bolt around the beam axle which wouldn't work with this bar.

thanks for any info

[Sirocco20348]

No holes need to be drilled

2x U-brackets go over the rear axle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9QKz4Ik4Qo

Watch this to see how it attaches to the axle... you might need to source parts from whiteline.

[blackers10]

Nah this one has different d bush mounts. I'll take a picture tonight