honestly ?

more progressive WITH an ARB ?

honestly ?

more progressive WITH an ARB ?

Im absolutely positive yes. The break away point is sooner, but when you know where that is and how fast you need to be going, thats when you can enjoy it properly. Without, the breakaway point is much much much later, and then BANG, you are facing the wrong way.

Just this minute ordered my Whiteline from Awesome!

Just to add, if something is as hyped up as this mod was, I like to test it to death to make sure it deserves the hype. And yeah, it really does and then some. If I had a standard Fabia outside and I could only do one modification to it, it would be the RARB. I do enjoy lift off oversteer though, which may differ to some - but that aside, when I say i tested it thouroughly with and without, I really mean it Road, track, snow, ice, I should work for Jabba tbh.

I'm just waiting for it to get dry and warm on the roads to try and get used to it properly.

I have no doubt that it's an amazing mod, but I've yet to see it all for myself.

I have noticed a big difference - how much flatter and stable it seems in the corners, but as mentioned, it seems to break away sooner, which is something that I have to get used to and learn to control and predict.

I don't know if I'm right in saying this but... You could go into corners for years at a certain speed and know what that speed is without looking, just by feeling how the car is behaving (this is all without the rarb)

But put the rarb on and you feel to be going much slower round the corners when infact you're going just as fast, if not faster than before the rarb?

It wont just break away on its own if you are on the power. It can give the initial impression its breaking away, when all thats happening is the rear suspension is taking up the load at the rear of the car. A few people who have driven mine, including the current owner thought it was starting to slide, when in fact it was nowhere near the point of sliding. If however you lift, it WILL breakaway slowly and progressively, which again it will not do with out one.

Right, I'll have to bear that in mind

Thanks for giving a tip to a total "Noob" haha.

Cheer Dave!

I couldnt agree more with shifty

Better than a sack of spuds in the boot then.

I couldnt agree more with shifty

Do you think over the last couple of years I might have contributed to the sales of these? Haha. Keep up the good work.

Hmmmmmmmm. Interesting reading.

Do you think over the last couple of years I might have contributed to the sales of these? Haha. Keep up the good work.

Good job you're not on commission

I can't see it making the car break away sooner - sounds like a bit of a missconception.

From my experience with cars and uprated anti-roll bars is that the point where it breaks away is later it just that the transition between 'stable' and 'break away' is shorter.

I can't see it making the car break away sooner - sounds like a bit of a missconception.

From my experience with cars and uprated anti-roll bars is that the point where it breaks away is later it just that the transition between 'stable' and 'break away' is shorter.

Well, when I say breakaway sooner, I didnt make clear enough having reread it - that I was meaning when provoking it - ie lift off oversteer. In normal driving as I said, it feels like it might be about to break away but doesnt. So you are quite right yes, although I have never had the rear of the Fabia out wiithout provocation.

I'm ordering a whiteline RARB in the new year from Awesome along with the Ibiza front brace from SEAT.

I have been wanting one for quite a while, but this thread has kicked my *** into gear to order one

I've got the JabbaSport bar fitted to mine, with Eibach springs and Koni FSDs and I've spun it, just the once. 35mph on a public road (NSL) and I just lost it. Totally my fault and due to my lack of skill. When the back went, I lifted. That was my fault and I hope I wouldn't do it again now I'm aware of the behaviour.

The fact is that without the bar I wouldn't have been doing 25mph because the roll would have been so great I'd have bottled it. And every other corner I've taken with it on has been an absolute joy. It totally transforms the car.

I have tried a Fabia with the Whiteline and the JabbaSport bar and I couldn't really tell the difference, but one is made in the UK by a company that's supporting Skoda drivers (including Briskoda) and the other is made somewhere else and quite often doesn't fit properly. You get what you pay for.

i spun too at about 90-100mph in the wet while racing a z06 corvette,i've since taken the arb off and sold it to the op,with the coilovers on and the lsd mine was a little to tailhappy,the coilovers control the body beutifully and i can still get the tail out when really provoking it.

Haven't we had this thread before....?

once or twice i think:rolleyes:

A few people who have driven mine, including the current owner thought it was starting to slide, when in fact it was nowhere near the point of sliding.

Ah, but, you are a certifiable lunatic, and I am a grey haired fragile geriatric......

I still say the car is homicidal, and is haunted by the ghost of either James Dean, or my mate Trevor ( r.i.p., he was a PROPER looney )

I am glad I got some new grundies for christmas....