Reply With QuoteNever mind. My mechanic was able to get a replacement
Now to check if I should get an MCA kit or the Bilstein repaired
Volkswagenist
Does anyone know if these parts are interchangeable between these cars?
AFAIK, they all run the same brakes
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VW - Metallic Paint, Radial Tyres, Laminated Windscreen, Electric Windows, VW Alloy Wheels, Variable Geometry Exhaust Driven Supercharger, Direct Unit Fuel Injection, Adiabatic Ignition, MacPherson Struts front, Torsion Beam rear, Coil Springs, Hydraulic Dampers, Front Anti-Roll Bar, Disc Brakes, Bosch ECU, ABS
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Never mind. My mechanic was able to get a replacement
Now to check if I should get an MCA kit or the Bilstein repaired
Resident grumpy old fart
VW - Metallic Paint, Radial Tyres, Laminated Windscreen, Electric Windows, VW Alloy Wheels, Variable Geometry Exhaust Driven Supercharger, Direct Unit Fuel Injection, Adiabatic Ignition, MacPherson Struts front, Torsion Beam rear, Coil Springs, Hydraulic Dampers, Front Anti-Roll Bar, Disc Brakes, Bosch ECU, ABS
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MCA seeing as I paid for all the development on my kit..... Free camber top mounts.Originally Posted by kaanage
Never mind. My mechanic was able to get a replacement
Now to check if I should get an MCA kit or the Bilstein repaired
Volkswagenist
I'm contacting them now, regarding suitable spring rates
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Volkswagen Enthusiast
I'm prob going to jump on MCA as well, just waiting for the right time to break it to the missus
08 9n3 Polo GTI
Mods: heaps
Volkswagenist
Since I broke my car, including the passenger strut (and hub, of course), that's half the job taken care of!
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Volkswagen Enthusiast
What the hell did you do to it???
Cheap, Fast, Reliable. Choose two.
Volkswagenist
I thought I had posted about it in the "What did you do Today?" thread but obviously not
I just clipped the outside kerb at a roundabout entry (I was watching an oncoming car to make sure it wasn't going to turn across me so I turned in a touch early). Sadly for my PoD, the kerb, at that point had a small chunk missing (about 15cm wide) and because only the edge of the tyre went into the gap, the sidewall was pinched and the edge of the rim hammered into the kerb, resulting in
- Totalled tyre (massive hole torn in sidewall)
- Possibly totalled rim (big chunk out of lip and possibly buckled/cracked)
- Bent hub
- Bent strut at base
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That sucksRoundabouts plus sorted Polo usually equal fun, not torture.
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