front suspension wobble

[javalin]

Chaps,

Fitted poly-bushes on the front suspension a while ago.  Since then the car is fine on new tarmac'd roads, but is wobbly as f**k on roads with lumps or tramlines on.

Tracking has been done since then and is now correct.

All bolts tight.

Any ideas?  Thinking about putting new arms on with the pre-fitted bushes.....?

James

[harlemex]

strange one this. I have polybushed arms and find steering very responsive regardless of road. Who did the tracking? I only ask as I had mine done and I started to get through tyres like they were big macs.  . Just sayin that sometimes in some places you get an incompetent wally workin on your car, like in Kwik fit just for example.

[javalin]

VW did the tracking ;-)

[javalin]

Update :- changed back to standard rubber bushes at the weekend.   Sorted.  It was the large and unforgiving nature of the polybushes not giving over a bump, and transmitting that shock into the car.  Its better now, and also much more bouncy.  Almost "bump" steer.

[Len]

Dont sound right to me!

[tweed]

they may be polybush but they still wear!

[Wayne]

Update :- changed back to standard rubber bushes at the weekend.   Sorted.  It was the large and unforgiving nature of the polybushes not giving over a bump, and transmitting that shock into the car.  Its better now, and also much more bouncy.  Almost "bump" steer.

I have found that in the past with poly bushes tbh. 

[thai-wronghorse]

As it's been said before, poly-bushes were originally designed for vehicles used on smooth track surfaces, not potholed gravel tracks that are supposedly classed as the queens highway. Its not really surprising that people come across ride issues really.