To all you chaps who upgraded your ARB to Jabba etc ones, what do you do with your old vrs ARB's

I have a Fabia TDI 100 estate and quite fancy a vrs ARB on it. That would be an up grade for me. So if anybody as a cheap, excelent condition pair of ARB's of a vrs then may be we could do a deal.

Does the vRS have an anti roll bar at the rear as standard? Not sure it does.

I think there may be one on the inside of the rear beam...whatever...nothing is removed when fitting the Jabba ARB.

It doesnt. Fabia platform cars only have a front arb. Thats why jabba's rear makes such a difference. Because we dont have one in the first place.

It doesnt. Fabia platform cars only have a front arb. Thats why jabba's rear makes such a difference. Because we dont have one in the first place.

Indeed!

I was referring to the front ARB's, I quite fancy a vrs one for my standard Fabia

I dont think anyone has uprated their front ARB tbh. Why counteract the benefit of an uprated rear one?

Jabba dont do a front arb.

Eibach do a 22mm front anti roll bar but dont think many people have bothered as it will increase understeer.

Think the std vRS arb is about £60 from a dealer.

Eibach do a 22mm front anti roll bar but dont think many people have bothered as it will increase understeer.

Maybe, maybe not (though as a rule of thumb you're right). It depends what the rest of the suspension is doing at the time and what alignment has been done. I'm sure it'll increase understeer in some circumstances but it might also help balance the car in higher speed corners as well as helping to settle the chassis quicker when in transition from brakes to cornering and back onto the next bit of straight.

ISTR the front ARB is quite chunky anyway. I think the only reason I would consider changing it for an Eibach is if the Eibach one was less prone to fracturing collars and clunking.

J.

So do you think front vrs ARB's would improve my TDI 100 estate's handling?

I too have an estate and I'm looking at replacing the (currently knackered) original front ARB with a VRS one. I'm wondering if you need to use VRS droplinks as well though?

I've got the Jabba rear arb and it's great!

So do you think front vrs ARB's would improve my TDI 100 estate's handling?

I'm certain it would change the handling and the handling balance. Whether you feel it's an improvement would depend on what you're trying to achieve.

I would imagine....

For an estate, the jabba ARB will be more "active", doing its thing than in a more stiffly suspended hatch. The estate will have a bigger moment of inertia and carry more weight, higher at the rear. I'd assume it's also far more softly sprung and with a far greater anticipated range of suspension deflections than a hatch.

To dial out some of the above, maybe it is worth investing in a stiffer front ARB.

At the end of the day it's about achieving a balance and fitting a bigger front ARB kind-of sounds like the right thing to do from an amateur engineering point of view.

J.

I've not got a Rear ARB, but i've been in a Fabia with both a Front Eibach ARB and a rear Jabba ARB, the handling was nothing short of jaw dropping in comparison to my Fabia with Seat Strut Brace and Eibach springs.