Whiteline Bump Steer Kit?

[gillm]

heat shrink and grease :)

[SteveP]

Excuse the pun, but time for a thread bump 

Has anyone fitted these yet????

[vRSAlex]

Are they actually available yet?

I will send an email to find out if there is stock when im at work tmoz.

I would have thought it was better to move the rod end to underneath rather than ontop.  Esp on lowered cars.  You want the arms to be as level as possible.  I inverted the arms and fitted rose joints on the Ibiza.  Worked very well and I never had any issues with the rose joints and the UK climate.  I even ran rose jointed wishbones and the joints were fine after two years.

[Truckie]

If you go for top quality rose joints you shouldnt have too many issues but......youll pay a lot of money and at the end of the day on the road??? Bit extreme perhaps.
 It may give you quicker steering input and make it possible to swerve round all the pot holes! 

[SteveP]

Are they actually available yet?

I will send an email to find out if there is stock when im at work tmoz.

I would have thought it was better to move the rod end to underneath rather than ontop.  Esp on lowered cars.  You want the arms to be as level as possible.  I inverted the arms and fitted rose joints on the Ibiza.  Worked very well and I never had any issues with the rose joints and the UK climate.  I even ran rose jointed wishbones and the joints were fine after two years.

A few places seem to be listing them as available now 

[john_o]

 

[TrickGTI]

I had Rose jointed bottom arms on my 206 and it made a huge different it did go from haveing a bit of understeer to haveing loads of oversteer but only if it let go but up to that point it felt awesome. 

[vRSAlex]

These kits are still not available and are still going through testing in australia 

They need to hurry up!

[Carrera2RS]

Does the Golf suffer from bump steer, suspect lowered by more than 20mm at the front could be worthwhile. Perhaps spacering up the ball joint in some way would address the issue if it's a real problem

[vRSAlex]

TT hubs is what we all need.  They lower the ball joint for us 

[the bruce]

But do the TT arms have changed steering knuckle position?

 


"Original bump-steer was measured to be 8.4mm toe-out
 @ 40mm compression and 4mm toe-in @ 40mm droop"

[Carrera2RS]

No they don't as the pivot points are the same, it would be interesting to measure up TT hubs.

I have a little more measuring to do then I will have approximate figs for how much the TT arms with TT adjustable ball joints add to the track and top/bottom figures for the tyre outside. I am finding the tyres after fitting TT arms can kiss outer edge of the inner arch. I might solve by buying two 50mm offset 8x18's and keep the ET45's for spare

[rich83]

How exactly does Bump Steer manifest itself??

[mkviken]

it repositions steering rack ends to prevent outside wheel steering itself outwards when suspension is compressed (heavy cornering). VW engineered a lot of bump steer into the golf on purpose.

when the suspension is compressed due to the axis of the suspension travel the rack end s affectively shortened which steers the car without turning the wheel if you get what i mean.

the bump steer kit heightens the steering rack end to give a more linear suspension axis
 

[rich83]

But how is Bump Steer felt everyday whilst driving? I understand the principle of Bump Steer, and what this kit does mechanical... just not sure actually what difference it will make.