Can anyone give me some advice? Since owning my vRS I cant help but get into traffic light races and some childish moments when filling up late at night at Sainsbury's. When turning the traction control off I always find when I put my foot down the front of the car jumps up and down, bumping. Its a horrible noise and also I presume its doing damage to the suspension and chasie?

Is there any mod I can do that will help keep the car firm when doing wheel spins? eg. arb or strut brace?

Its a must for Le Mans next year to prevent getting waterrr gunned through the window.

Cheers,

Josh

Fit an LSD

Fit better tyres

Learn to drive.

stop racing people and grow up.......

it is a TDI and with the ASR off it will spin, there all like it.

Learn to drive.

That about sums this topic up.

its wheel hop your getting and tyres/strut braces won't help and i doubt that an ARB will help either, certainly not the rear anyway!

That banging will chew your driveshafts eventually. That banging is what snapped one of mine at Santa Pod when I first went (with rubbish suspension)

To cure it you need good suspension (as the suspension rattling up and down is what the wheel hop is!), and practise at driving without ASR on. I find mine usually just as fast with it on, but then I also have a limited slip diff which does more work than the ASR in general.

uprated dogbone?

Give up racing cars off the line? If you do that why buy a diesel.

Its all about the 40-80 with the furby.

Off the line mine gets beaten by Fiesta Zetec S's up to 35mph, but I am a bit of a crap driver.

Remapped it keeps with Mondeo ST's 40-75

Alrite people! No need to post 'learn to drive!' Im 18 have driven well for a year thats why I can afford a vRS. Just wanted some helpful tips not abuse. My clio 16v did it aswell.

i don't know what causes wheel hop personally but its not down to cheap suspension as my focus would happily sit there will spinning with smoke pouring everywhere and that had standard bushes and dampers that had covered 100K miles+ and cheapo lowering springs, swmbo's vectra doesn't hop either if you start wheel spinning and thats both completely standard and done about 130K miles with very very little maintenance.

That banging will chew your driveshafts eventually. That banging is what snapped one of mine at Santa Pod when I first went (with rubbish suspension)

I never had that problem running the quarter mile on standard suspension or coilovers. :confused: Wierd.

Off the line mine gets beaten by Fiesta Zetec S's up to 35mph, but I am a bit of a crap driver.

Learn to drive

Learn to drive

I certainly need to, unfortunately I don't get a lot practice at aggressive traffic light starts I'm more of a "floor it in 3rd from 40mph" sort of guy.

I understand its a bit chavish. But some times in a controlled enviroment a burn out is fun. Ive seen my mate at Le Mans 08 in a e36 325i moded to 225bhp. Just wanted to know how to stop the hop. Its alot better in 2nd gear doing a burn out with a rolling start in the vRS.

I understand its a bit chavish. But some times in a controlled enviroment a burn out is fun. Ive seen my mate at Le Mans 08 in a e36 325i moded to 225bhp. Just wanted to know how to stop the hop. Its alot better in 2nd gear doing a burn out with a rolling start in the vRS.

cars are toys and life is a race, its always fun.

To be honest, your right it is a bit chavtastic telling people the best way to burn out.

What do you gain from it?

Losing your licence when the cops catch you?

You want to get the power down, not loose it wheel spinning like mad...

You've obviously worked hard and saved for the VRS, why abuse it like that?

Edit: Just read that through again. It is in no way intended to be harsh.

But, its not my car, so i suppose, do what you like.

Bengie has the right idea, this post only come about when filling up at sainbury's in winchester the other sunday, i was waiting for a few mates, a gti 03 golf, astra sri. I was waiting and started doing some rings round the trolley parks (21:00 on a sunday). I was alarmed by the bouncing of the front end when doing a wheel spin at a stand still.

Mine doesn't do it at all, unlike other fwd cars I've owned in the past. Worst was an Astra 1.8 ...

Make sure the steering is dead straight ahead, as any deviation seems to make it worse. And get all the bushes checked.

Final advice, get a RWD car.

I never had that problem running the quarter mile on standard suspension or coilovers. :confused: Wierd.

I didn't say standard - I said "rubbish"

I had some damn uber stiff FK coilies, which were cheap and nasty and I still believe they contributed to the wheel-hop. Of course, trying to accelerate hard on a santa pod sticky surface will also do it

The mention of dogbone mount is a good one above - Keeping that gearbox steady is also essential to eliminating wheel-hop. I think the gearbox moving back and forth under power/gearchanges also induces wheel-hop. The whole dynamics of wheel-hop does go somewhat over my head though.

Mine did do this when I spun the front wheels (it's not a VRS though). The weitec coilovers reduced it and the uprated console bushes and dogbone mount seem to have cancelled it completely. On the other hand, although it is a good laugh and looks good, cars are not designed to do this all day every day all of the time... something will break eventually. Just be safe out there!

Could I possibly be the most boring 18 year old?

The vibra-technics dogbone cured wheel hop for me. The vibration drove me nuts though. I might sell it, although the new Jabba solid bush has probably done for the 2nd hand value

Power > Grip > Talent

Start in 2nd gear, dump the clutch with at least 3500 revs on and be prepared to lose 20 yards in the first 100 then you'll start to catch up. Do not short-shift. It's slower, despite what your backside is telling you.

The vRS isn't actually all that fast in a straight line unless it's remapped. And then it's still not that fast unless you have educated feet and you can feel the transition from clutch slip to grip.

FWD cars will never be super-fast off the line. It's a warmed-over shopping trolley, not a sports car.

As for doing doughnuts in JS' car park - they usually hand the tapes over to the police if you get your registration number on the security cameras.

Be careful.

coilovers

strut brace

vibrateknics mount

helix / spec clutch

LSD

Fat *** tires

or calm it a bit and use the mid range - you arent going to win any traffic light gran prix's

Alrite people! No need to post 'learn to drive!' Im 18 have driven well for a year thats why I can afford a vRS. Just wanted some helpful tips not abuse. My clio 16v did it aswell.

A whole year eh?

The fact you've had 2 cars do the same thing should be telling you something about your lack of clutch control.

The hopping is your tyres trying to get grip, yet the drag of the stationary car is stopping them. It'll happen no matter what you drive if you let the wheels spin.

Can I also +1 to the stop racing/being a chav pose?

Wouldn't really sh***y tyres help eliminate wheel-hop? With no grip they would just spin without trying to move the car?

bye bye drives!!!! that sort a pricking about will f*ck up your car....

treat your car bad and when u need it most... it mite bite you in the ***!!!