Has anyone tried a volkswagen racing rear anti roll bar? Fitted a whiteline one a few months back and i have yet to stop it creaking, spraying the bushes with wd works for a few days before the noises return. Regreased the bushes a week ago when the b12 kit was fitted but its now creaking worse than ever. Cant wait to chuck it in the skip and either put the standard one back on or look for a better uprated one.

I used very expensive Lithium grease. Lasted a good few years before the creaking came back.

I used lithium grease too, wasnt expensive though. I suppose its possible it may be wishbone or trailing arm bushes. Just seems odd i didnt hear a peep from the rear suspension until the arb was changed.

I've had a Whiteline bar on now for over 3 years, still no noise. I had a little sachet of grease with mine.

There are specific greases available for use on the various grades of polywhotnot.

Have you checked that the bar and clamps are fitted straight?

have got to replace the bumpstops so will check alignment of the arb when its up on the ramps, like i say it could be bushes elsewhere as the car is 8 years old and is close to 90k. its unfortunate that creaks and rattles are my pet hate in cars!

I'll have the Whiteline if it's going cheap

If i cant get rid of the creaking you will be welcome to it!

I've had a Whiteline bar on now for over 3 years, still no noise. I had a little sachet of grease with mine.

There are specific greases available for use on the various grades of polywhotnot.

Have you checked that the bar and clamps are fitted straight?

 

+1

my whiteline creaked very bad initially.

took it back after a coupe of hunderd kms and they found one of the clamps was slightly skewed. 

re-did it and it hasn't squeked since.

been almost 3 months now.

As above, you need the right sort of grease.  WD40 won't last as you've already found out.

 

I found my autotech noisy on the std (hard, smooth) bushes so replaced those with some superpro jobbies - worked much better but still needed re-greasing every 30k miles or so.

 

I now have an h&R bar - this has a teflon insert in the bush to help keep it quiet.  No noise so far but tbh i've only had it on since mid February so it only has about 4k miles on it up to now..

 

HTH

Seems i may have been a little hasty in condemming the anti roll bar, had a good look under the car while someone bounced the rear up and down and the creaking seemed to be coming from the bumpstops which are hard,perished and starting to fall apart. I knew they were knackered when the new dampers were fitted but didnt have time to get new ones at the time. The reason I think its become a problem now is that with lowered springs the bumpstops are coming into play sooner than before. There looks to be only 10mm of travel before the bumpstop comes into contact with the top of the shock absorber where as before there would have been around 12mm more. Have smeard grease around the cracks in the stops and its now quite. New ones will be going on soon.

I still think it's the ARB

In response to the OP, I do have the VWR anti-rollbar - not a squeak.  I have got it on the middel setting (of three) which goes well with stock vRS suspension.