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dreadly wrote:I thought the polo's main handling problem was the use of track control arms, instead of proper wishbone type suspension?

Indeed, when you compare them to cars of a similar age with wishbones the Polo is outclassed in the handling departement. It doesn't help that the Mk3 Polos have a slightly loose front end either, as they're essentially a slightly lengthened Mk2 Polo - and in the process lost some of the front end rigidity.

Nothing that isn't fixable though. You can make/buy a front brace bar to stop it flexing at the front quite so much, which also helps to protect against the dreaded chassis leg split too. Lowering them a bit helps, as does the addition of nylon ARB mounts designed to pull the ARB to a more effective position for a lowered car. Wishbone conversions are available, but you'll pay a lot for them!

As for G40s being fun to drive - I'll second that. Stock ones are easy to drive, and useable every day. A stock one should have no trouble on seeing off the likes of Saxo VTS, 106 GTI and give much tastier machinery hassle too.

I use my 160bhp G40 as my only car, and now I've got used to its paddle clutch I don't have any issues with driving it in traffic. It's not as easy to drive as a stock one, but the extra performance makes up for that! Civic Type Rs, Focus ST170, older Scoobies, Cooper S Works, 1.8T Golfs are all easy pickings. Throw about a grand at a stock G40 and you'll be up to 140-150bhp depending on engine health.

this is making me realllllly wanna get mine on the road now!

for the price she is asking, i don't think u are gonna loose out either way!

I have phoned her back, she got the milage a little wrong, it's 87k not 70k as she previously thought.

I am going to take a good look this weekend, and if it's ok, then I'm in the club....

Thanks for the advice, it's going to be very hard to walk away if it is a duffer!!!

Where can I get a list of upgrades to do to the car in order of priority, prefferably with some approximate costings?

Andy

BTW :- She is replacing the car with a brand new Lupo GTI.

She says the brakes are better and it has power steering, she was finding the G40 hard-work.

Andy

good luck mate! hope it all comes out ok! make sure u get some pics up on here pronto if ya get her!

regards
Doug

Here's a pic of my car



I brought it for £1750 with a few spares and 2 sets of wheels, ats classics and steal mattigs and it's one of the last built being on an L plate

92k miles, all old mot's and full service history. The charger was due a service but i had budgeted for a full blend anyway

I've spent nearly 2k on it since january on tuning goodies etc and it now has around 165bhp which works out as 198bhp/ton, for comparison a civic type R is 165bhp/ton!!


Go on buy it and get down pitstop so they can check the condition of the charger out etc etc. They are good boys and they are very helpful. I wouldn't trust my car with anyone else

where are pitstop located?

Near brighton.

Petrified wrote:where are pitstop located?

Littlehampton, near Worthing.

Cool, how long does it take to rebuild a charger?

all depends on if it's for a straight servce or a full blend.

About a week turnaround. You can post your charger to them and they'll send it back once it's done if it's too far for you

They could rebuild it in a day depending on how busy they are

tell you what if you do not buy it give me her number and i will
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