What did you do to your Polo today?

[noone]

More swaybar fun on the weekend. Replaced the swaybar bush lube with lithium grease, I used some other stuff I had lying around and with the torrential rain from last week, they were already dry...

Removed my rear sway and set the front to hard with the stock droplinks.

Handles well and is much more comfortable on crappy Sydney roads.

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Any reason why you removed the rear sway bar?

For FWD handling it's critical to have a rear sway bar... I can't see why you'd want to remove it.

[noone]

With my AP Coilovers and Whiteline bushes, the swaybars made the ride stiff. Thats all good for the track, but the roads here are crap and I need some comfort.

With the front swaybar set to hard, traction is good and there is minimal body roll. This is how the car came, its just stiffer sway, shocks and springs.

When I go back to the track it will go back on.

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Changing your rear springs and dampers would be a better option if you wanted to soak up bumps.... but the problem you're always going to have is that very stiff front end, combined with a hugely nose heavy car like the Polo. The back end is always going to border on too hard without much weight on the rear end.

But yeah, by pulling the rear sway bar all you're doing is removing balance in the car... which is bonkers to me. That said, each to their own.

[philthy]

More swaybar fun on the weekend. Replaced the swaybar bush lube with lithium grease, I used some other stuff I had lying around and with the torrential rain from last week, they were already dry...

Removed my rear sway and set the front to hard with the stock droplinks.

Handles well and is much more comfortable on crappy Sydney roads.

*Edit* - dumb comment. Polo GTI didn't have a rear sway as standard... moving right along....

[noone]

I've tried the swaybars in all hard / soft combinations. With my coilovers there is plenty of 'balance' without the rear swaybar...

[Stuwey]

Sway bars make NO difference to ride comfort in the bound/rebound of a bump, that is all down to the spring and damper rate....




I fitted my R1 valve and gave it a pre-winter wash, polish, wax. mmmmmmm shiny.

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I had a crack at polishing up my headlights using regular car polish as per one of the recent 'Mighty Car Mods' videos.

Headlights came up pretty well, except the small section on the outside of each of the lights at the very top corner... for some reason both lights had their biggest scratches there.

[insanekiwi]

I've tried the swaybars in all hard / soft combinations. With my coilovers there is plenty of 'balance' without the rear swaybar...

I have to go with noone here, I have both Whiteline RSB as well as FSB. I have soft / medium setting. I am thinking of changing it to soft / soft.

Rear sway bar makes the ride more jiggly going over speed bumps especially IF you go two wheels at different times, it's very very uncomfortable. Normal driving on road should not affect it too much. But going in and out of drive ways, very uneven road will make the ride much more firm. I love the handling of soft / med (f & b), but may be I need soft / soft for more comfort.

So yes it does affect the comfort.

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I have to go with noone here <snip>

Well if you guys don't want your sway bars send them my way

[noone]

I'll be using mine again, but probably just for track days...

As Kiwi said, its when you are going over uneven road, esp at low speed. This gets the swaybars involved too much and can make the ride uncomfortable.

I understand many of you have not and may not experience this, but it depends on the rest of the gear. My AP Coilover setup is stiff from stock, especially in the rear.

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As Kiwi said, its when you are going over uneven road, esp at low speed. This gets the swaybars involved too much and can make the ride uncomfortable.

I understand many of you have not and may not experience this, but it depends on the rest of the gear. My AP Coilover setup is stiff from stock, especially in the rear.

All I read there was "waaahh waaaahh wwaaaaaah, I want a sports car but don't like it when it's stiff on the road, wwaaaahhh wwaaaahh wwahhhhh"

[Corey_R]

My Polo GTI with stock suspension and only 30,000km on the clock is having it's rear suspension replaced by the dealer soon. As someone who lives in Sydney but regularly works in Brisbane, I really don't think many Brisbane drivers truely appreciate at how bad some of the roads in Sydney are. I've had this argument many times with my close Brisbane friends. 1 car trip with me in my local area when they're down to visit is enough to cease all arguments.....

I won't get into the argument about whether what noone is doing is the right way to go about things or not, but I can truly understand why he's doing it.

[DeanB]

Checked all the clamps on my TIP and piping today ... was happy that none of them felt loose. Also gave it a wash ... fark it was cold in the wind here, I'll probably end up with a cold, but it looks all nice and tidy again

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Fitted some Kumho KU31's today. Was going to go for the KU36 semi-slicks... but just couldn't justify them for daily driving (particularly the sort of km I'm doing now)

So far so good.