What did you do to your Polo today?

[kaanage]

I agree - that's awesome, Stuwey.
Good luck with the boost leak

[FarQ]

changed the H7 low beam bulbs as they both went out within a week of each other. Put the narva Intense ones in. They should fire the F&$ker engineer who designed the stuff around right hand side rear of the headlight assembly. What a F&%ken bitch to get the bulb in...

[seangti]

Got the car corner weighed this morning:

08 Polo GTI - Stock in terms of weight, no weight loss attempt whatsoever: stock wheels, brakes, interior, near full tank of fuel, tow bar, roof racks and sub woofer, and some chassis bracing mine weighed in at 1240kg without driver.

Front Left - 384kg Front Right - 396kg
Rear Left - 232kg Rear Right - 228.5kg

ie. 62% front weighting and ~50% left/right

Interesting to now know what it weighs, and then to work out what it means.

[VWindahouse]

So also went with Sean and put the Devil on the scales.

I have a heap of weight saving measures like no back seat or seat belts, small battery, rear parcel shelf, spare, jack to name a few of the big ones.

Total weight with a 1/4 of a tank was 1131.5 and with me 1205.5

Front left 367 (32.4%) Front right 385.5 (34%) Total front percentage = 66%

Rear left 192.5 (17%) Rear right 186.5 (16.4%) Total rear percentage = 34%

With driver

Front left 375.5 (31.1%) Front right 416 (34.5%) Total front percentage = 66%

Rear left 203.5 (16.9%) Rear right 210 (17.4%) Total rear percentage = 34%

And total left to right side percentages with driver 48:52

Now what I don't get is the Polo GTI is always listed as different weights depending on which Google search result you click on

VOLKSWAGEN Polo IV 9N3 GTI 1.8 150 hp 3 . Car Technical Data. Power. Torque. Fuel tank capacity. Fuel consumption.

VW Polo GTI lap times and specs - FastestLaps.com

So not sure which one to compare to?

[RoSonic]

The official value from VW was 1164kg.

[Sharkie]

changed the H7 low beam bulbs as they both went out within a week of each other. Put the narva Intense ones in. They should fire the F&$ker engineer who designed the stuff around right hand side rear of the headlight assembly. What a F&%ken bitch to get the bulb in...

I hear you mate fitted ultra white Phillips Extremes a while ago and it was a b!aaatch to put in. Right hand stressed me so much I had to do the left the next night

[VWindahouse]

The official value from VW was 1164kg.

Thanks mate, do you know if that includes fluids, spare, jack etc?

Ok this is a cut and paste from the actual Australian Polo brochure


Edition Pacific Pacific TDI GTI
Weights 3 Door 5 Door 5 Door 3 Door
Manual Auto Manual Auto Manual Manual
Tare vehicle weight, kg 1077 1127 1112 1162 1222 1190

Still confused

[seangti]

I think roughly 1200kg is the right figure given the weight of yours and mine. Mine didn't have the spare tyre and tools, but subwoofer and tow bar, etc.

Specific weight of petrol is 0.72kg/L (not .92 that I mentioned) and I'd done 100km, so assume 9l usage, let's call it 36l in the tank remaining, so 26kgs of fuel. So fuel isn't a big contributor to weight.

The 110kg difference between ours is huge, ~10% of the vehicle weight, though the F/R weight distribution raises curiousity around the handling traits.

[VWindahouse]

I think roughly 1200kg is the right figure given the weight of yours and mine. Mine didn't have the spare tyre and tools, but subwoofer and tow bar, etc.

Specific weight of petrol is 0.72kg/L (not .92 that I mentioned) and I'd done 100km, so assume 9l usage, let's call it 36l in the tank remaining, so 26kgs of fuel. So fuel isn't a big contributor to weight.

The 110kg difference between ours is huge, ~10% of the vehicle weight, though the F/R weight distribution raises curiousity around the handling traits.

Thanks mate. Do you think the 1190kg's quoted in the Aust, VW brochure includes spare, jack etc? They call it TARE weight which means unladen from what I've read.

[blackbetty]

interestingly the 66% ish over the front could be area of attention for those seeking more grip.
even a 2 or 3% increase over the front vs rear would be a big booster to traction in a straight line.