My Polo G40 KCK

[Alex]

Loving the 190!

[z3i]

How hard is your suspension mate? Put my new wheels on and they catch, dont really want to roll the arches, have you rolled yours? Maybe I should go harder springs...  Hmmm

[Jester]

My suspension has no give at all on the front, rears used to catch on the koni shocks/springs but now doesn't.

Aren't your new wheels 14's?

[z3i]

Yeah they are, but my wheel arch gap looks similar to your 13's
I turned up the damping 5 clicks on the rear and it was rock solid, bounced everwhere, was horrible, if anything it made it worse, seem to catch more!

[PeteG40]

Can u not get a machine shop to turn a couple of mill off the hub to take em in a bit.

[Jester]

Are they just straight on as well with no spacers? what tyre sizes did you get?.
they're ET26 them comps if I remember right? so shouldn't really rub, would be rubbish if you had to get camber shims or had to roll the arches :s

..or what Pete said.

[z3i]

Yeah that's not a bad idea, got 20mm spacers on the rear and none on the front, rears have a little poke, maybe get a 15mm spacer? I really don't want to roll them as they are good condition

The offset is confusing as fuck, says 14-35 et, so what the hell does that mean lol, I went for 195/45 toyo's look awesome
The thing is I like that the rear j's slightly wider than the front

[PeteG40]

Get 15mm spacers? Or try 2x5mm one side to see first.

[Jester]

14-35? maybe the 14 is the diameter.

If they're ET 35 i'm not surprised they're rubbing on a 6.5J with 20mm as mine are ET11 with 20mm spacers :s

[z3i]

Nice one Pete I have those two 5mm spacers dosing about, I'll give that a go

I don't think that is the offset, it's only catching a little bit, right on the inner arch plastic, will get the belt sander and skim a little bit off to improve things

[PeteG40]

14-35? maybe the 14 is the diameter.

If they're ET 35 i'm not surprised they're rubbing on a 6.5J with 20mm as mine are ET11 with 20mm spacers :s

Et11 stick out more than et35 though...

[Jester]

Oh yea sorry, brain dead

scrubbing has got to be related to the spring travel mainly. One of the main reasons I got harder springs was to stop my scrubbing.

[z3i]

I'm worried about going to hard incase it bounces around lol. Just had another look and there is quite alot of poke, reckon they could go in a little

180lb springs on rear and 250 on front I think, front is quite alot lower yet it doesn't catch

[Jester]

well finally made the effort of fitting the stage 3 PPS subframe after painting it black.. terrible photos but sure most of you know how it looks.



Gave it a clean/polish also;



got hold of a tape holder thing to fill up the gaps in the dash.

[Jester]

I attended the early edition show on the Sunday. Rather disappointed this year this show was a lot smaller, starting to go of the vag shows recently to be honest haha.

Anyway thought I'd use the opportunity to use the G40, weather was nice so got a photo of it cleaned up .