I bought my neuspeed rear arb from Awesome last year and and it was great for about 6k miles until one day i has a lot of noise coming from the rear end
, so a trip to the dealer showed it was down to the arb putting to much stress on the oe droplinks and sending noise up the rear shocks
.
I had Vw take the Neuspeed arb off and i put the stock one back on to find out all the noise had gone
, i phoned Andy at awesome to let him know the problem and he said bring the arb in for him to look at to see if it was bent or out of line.I took it over and Andy, me and Jim had a look and it looked fine
so after having a chat i asked jim what arbs are on there mk5 and he said the same as yours
so i said lets have a look at the droplinks on yours to see how much pressure they are under and after looking he said to me he thought they would not last long if on the hard setting like mine are
so he very kindly asked me to try the new neuspeed droplinks to see if this is the prob and the cure
some quick pics of the install
VW droplinks and stock arb
unbolt the stock arb clamps 2 bolt per clamp
and undo the droplinks on the ard and on the arm
and then slide the arb out
you need to keep the arb clamp bolts and the droplink nuts and change the clamp over to the neuspeed arb and put lots of grease on the new poly bushes
and then put the bar back on
and then fit these bad boys
the little spacers slide on the bolts 1 on the the top between the bolt and the arm and the bottom one goes between the arb and the droplink
they have been on 2 days now and they have stopped all noise and have made the back stiffer on the corners
big thanks to awesome for sorting these out for me (free) as they need to know if there is a problem with the arbs and i will be keeping an eye on them over the next few months