Traction in 1st

[h100vw]

Surely it's the same? 1J0407181 the factory bushing? Is in the Mk4 golf and the 6r polo...

Nope, the hole in the bush runs fore and aft like a MK5 Golf. Seat Ibiza Mk4 Front Left or Right Wishbone Bush 6LL407183 | eBay

Gavin

[Blue9N3]

Update. Got Nolathane front rear control arm bushes ($75 or so for the pair from repco). Traction is just as bad but at least it doesn't axle tramp now... Shocks and rear beam lock bushes next.


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[kaanage]

Nope, the hole in the bush runs fore and aft like a MK5 Golf. Seat Ibiza Mk4 Front Left or Right Wishbone Bush 6LL407183 | eBay

Gavin

For most of our cars. flat6 had pics that showed the very late models reverted to the vertical bush layout of the MkIV Golf/6R (in his girlfriend's GTi). I can only assume VW had completed tooling for the 6R and had run out of the older lowert front end assemblies at that point

[flat6]

Funny thing is both cars are OCT 08 build dates, hers registered in 09, mine in 10

My Car - The Super Pro bushes help with getting the power down


Mrs Car


Having the APR tune I found the only way to get through first happily is by swapping to the 95 octane tune, feels like the power band is around the 130kw range (Polo GTI Cup), even with Bridgestone RE02's with about 15k on them I still get a fair bit of wheel spin in first using the 98 tune.

[h100vw]

Boots up ETKA

EDIT

nothing in ETKA leads me to believe there was a change in those front wishbones over the whole life of the 9N3. I went from 2006 to the last chassis in 2010 and the all have the same console and subframe part number for GTIs.

They all had the same 1K0 part number for the rear bushes too.

Although my ETLA is a good few years old. It was last updated with 6R Polos so I don't reckon it would be wrong completely.

I'd be really interested to see the part numbers off the wishbones and subframe.

Gavin