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Offline mkviken

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Re: Bluemotion Match suspension set up.
« Reply #10 on: 06 December 2011, 18:39 »
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Re: Bluemotion Match suspension set up.
« Reply #11 on: 06 December 2011, 20:34 »
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Re: Bluemotion Match suspension set up.
« Reply #12 on: 06 December 2011, 20:43 »
Its a company car so coilovers are not an option.
I am also looking at getting it done reasonably cheap.
Does anyone have access to something like the old etka that can help ?  I am not sure what the new one is called.
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Re: Bluemotion Match suspension set up.
« Reply #13 on: 06 December 2011, 21:08 »
Hi, just read your original post and can't help thinking the first thing is to get the dealer to check it out (if you haven't already). You say it actually slides easily on medium cornering...that does not sound right at all as it's actually not easy to get a car actually sliding (on dry roads at sensible speeds) these days. Unless your 'medium' is measured on the Hamilton scale. Or perhaps you meant understeer?

I have a GT TDI, and I would have thought if your's is on 'Sport' suspension they should be pretty similar - how many variations of Sport suspension can there be?

I would really recommend getting out in it with the dealer on board, and also insist on comparing it with another similar Golf too. It really shouldn't be sliding out from under you.
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Re: Bluemotion Match suspension set up.
« Reply #14 on: 06 December 2011, 21:31 »
Hi,

That's seems like sound advice.  I am not sure that my car comes with standard sports suspension. 
I will offer the dealer the chance to come out on a test drive and see if he thinks that the car handles like it should do.
The more I drive it the more I dis like it.  I cant even get rid as its a company car.  Dont fancy three years of this.
If worst comes to worst, I will just swap out the springs and see if that makes things any better.  Apparently the sports suspension is described as lowered suspension by 15mm.  If this is all it is, then its a simple fix.
This is the reason why I would like someone to technically confirm that all other suspension elements are the same and its just the springs that differ.
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Re: Bluemotion Match suspension set up.
« Reply #15 on: 06 December 2011, 21:50 »
There will be some spring rate and damper variations, even within Sport suspension as opposed to normal / GTI etc, to account for differences in axle weights when certain options are fitted e.g. DSG, etc.

The GT i have is "sports suspension; lowered by 15mm" so basically the same as yours subject to the above. I've not driven the Bluemotion; but I have driven a standard Match TDI for 2 weeks (long story; mine was poorly) and although not as sporty handling as mine it was pretty good I thought; certainly no sliding.

Let us know how you get on with it.
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Re: Bluemotion Match suspension set up.
« Reply #16 on: 07 December 2011, 08:05 »
Forgive my ignorance here, but I thought only the full on Bluemotion model has sports suspension, along with body kit, 15" wheels etc.

The car the OP has is a Match 2.0TDI with Bluemotion Technology. It is essentially a normal Match, but with stop start and possibly alternator disengagement. It will have standard suspension and 16" wheels.
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Re: Bluemotion Match suspension set up.
« Reply #17 on: 07 December 2011, 09:57 »
i would definitely take this back to the dealers. maybe a spring is broken or something is bent/misaligned?

also are your tyre pressures right?

don't want to patronise but its worth a look.


my mrs sister was moaning about her car handling bad and she wanted to sell it so i checked the pressures and the front were 14psi one side and 38psi the other and 30psi rear - should be 29f/29r. of course the car drove bad!

the car drove fine afterwards (until the tyre i told her had a slow puncture let go a few days later and the spare in the boot which i told her was illegal was useless... :rolleyes:)
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Re: Bluemotion Match suspension set up.
« Reply #18 on: 07 December 2011, 16:36 »
Quote from: dubber36 on 07 December 2011, 08:05
Forgive my ignorance here, but I thought only the full on Bluemotion model has sports suspension, along with body kit, 15" wheels etc.

The car the OP has is a Match 2.0TDI with Bluemotion Technology. It is essentially a normal Match, but with stop start and possibly alternator disengagement. It will have standard suspension and 16" wheels.

Correct.

I drive a hire Golf TDI base model occasionally at work; in the dark it feels just like my GTI, similar torque at sensible speeds, same layout and feel from the interior in the darkness. So I just drive it as I would my GTI (which isn't particularly quickly as I'm old and broken) and the front end will wash out on a roundabout unlike my GTI which would just blast through.
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Re: Bluemotion Match suspension set up.
« Reply #19 on: 07 December 2011, 19:11 »
could try a stiffer rear ant roll bar

fairly cheap and very easy to fit and will reduce understeer
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