mk4 gti rear sway bar

[DUB 12V]

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.

[gavs]

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?



Autotech


Neuspeed


Whiteline

The last is the same as my Whiteline one.

Or is it like this?



You may be mistaking it for the rear axle mount bushings, these will wear out and squeek..... http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1980960

[audi-tone]

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

[gavs]

Yeah, hell easy. About 20 mins worth of work

[No457 Snowy]

What Gavs is saying is correct, you will have to measure the rear bar yourself as the GTI didn't come with a rear bar from the factory so no-one here can give you that answer. It could be anything, 25mm, 28mm, 30mm, 32mm etc. depending on what make/size aftermarket bar a previous owner has fitted.

If you don't have Verniers just use a decent sized shifter to gauge the bar then check the shifter opening with a ruler.


Snowy.

[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?