i own a mk1 vrs 2002 and ill be getting colovers soon how many bushes are on front end of car as i wanna stiffen it up feels poor at mo

Bushes aren't really going to stiffen anything unless yours are really knackered. Poly bushes help take a little slop out, and may make things minutely stiffer, but not really noticeable. There are ARB bushes (you will probably need the 17mm type and have to smash the plastic collar off the anti roll bar that are underneath the existing bushes, as the collars cause more problems than the bushes themselves), there is a bush on the steering rack, and the wishbones have front and rear bushes.

Unless you want to replace the dogbone engine mount bush (this may help stiffen things a little more) then that's about it. The subframe bushes could be replaced with the S3/TT bushes, but that involves dropping the entire subframe down in order to get to them.

If it feels poor, you may want to look at drop links, bottom ball joints, trackrod ends etc... It's amazing the difference even just replacing tired drop links can make.

If you find you need wishbone bushes do Not get cheap wishbones as there are reports of them cracking, also the bushes don't last long

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