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Offline Alex

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Re: My Polo G40 KCK
« Reply #90 on: February 02, 2014, 10:12:40 pm »
Loving the 190!

Offline z3i

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Re: My Polo G40 KCK
« Reply #91 on: March 06, 2014, 09:42:44 pm »
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

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Re: My Polo G40 KCK
« Reply #92 on: March 07, 2014, 08:23:10 am »
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?

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Re: My Polo G40 KCK
« Reply #93 on: March 07, 2014, 10:15:56 am »
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!

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Re: My Polo G40 KCK
« Reply #94 on: March 07, 2014, 10:42:45 am »
Can u not get a machine shop to turn a couple of mill off the hub to take em in a bit.

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Re: My Polo G40 KCK
« Reply #95 on: March 07, 2014, 10:44:05 am »
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.

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Re: My Polo G40 KCK
« Reply #96 on: March 07, 2014, 11:39:39 am »
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 :D
The thing is I like that the rear j's slightly wider than the front

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Re: My Polo G40 KCK
« Reply #97 on: March 07, 2014, 11:51:16 am »
Get 15mm spacers? Or try 2x5mm one side to see first.

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Re: My Polo G40 KCK
« Reply #98 on: March 07, 2014, 12:07:16 pm »
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

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Re: My Polo G40 KCK
« Reply #99 on: March 07, 2014, 01:31:21 pm »
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

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Re: My Polo G40 KCK
« Reply #100 on: March 07, 2014, 03:37:18 pm »
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...

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Re: My Polo G40 KCK
« Reply #101 on: March 07, 2014, 03:42:37 pm »
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.
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Re: My Polo G40 KCK
« Reply #102 on: March 07, 2014, 04:33:25 pm »
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

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Re: My Polo G40 KCK
« Reply #103 on: March 10, 2014, 01:30:19 pm »
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.


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Re: My Polo G40 KCK
« Reply #104 on: April 14, 2014, 10:28:47 pm »
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 :).