Hi,

I posted this on the new sticky but didnt get any replies, so perhaps someone could help me out as a standalone post......

This topic is confusing me slightly and I would appreciate some help with it.....

The front offside collar has cracked, slipped out and fallen off the antiroll bar on my 2002 1.9tdi Fabia hatchback.

In fact the collar displayed in the image in the thread header of the sticky post.

My questions are this:

1. Do I have to replace the whole ARB?

2. If not, can I repair this problem without dropping the subframe?

3. Where's the best place to get the necessary parts?

4. Local dealer quoting

the roll bar will require replacement , the guide shows you how to do it , you deffo have to drop the subframe to do it , otherwise i think TeflonTom would of done the guide telling you it can be done with it in place , i think a bar with bushes is about £60

Hi,

I posted this on the new sticky but didnt get any replies, so perhaps someone could help me out as a standalone post......

This topic is confusing me slightly and I would appreciate some help with it.....

The front offside collar has cracked, slipped out and fallen off the antiroll bar on my 2002 1.9tdi Fabia hatchback.

In fact the collar displayed in the image in the thread header of the sticky post.

My questions are this:

1. Do I have to replace the whole ARB?

Unfortunately yes, although the new modified rollbar should have welded collars (check this) rather than plastic.

See my old and new roll bars bars HERE:

2. If not, can I repair this problem without dropping the subframe?

No if the collars have split you'll need to drop the subframe and fit a new roll bar to cure the problem.:(

3. Where's the best place to get the necessary parts?

Got mine from my local dealer, about

it's not possible to remove the anti roll bar without dropping the subfram down..

whereabouts are you?? if you are not far from me i could help you change it

Do the collars really cause much of an issue?

Mine have split but I only know by looking at them!

Was going to just run some jubilee clips against the side of the bushes!

Guess you could always split some large washers and spot them in place without affecting the metalurgy of the bar too much?

Yes the collars do cause an issue, without these in place the bar isnt centralised. It slides sideways and knocks on the aluminium console, in the end this either wears away or cracks (also an MOT failure as the bar isnt secured as it should be).

Jubilee clips, seen em fitted before but never actualy work the bar just ends up moving them, and they look like a right terrible bodge up.

Not sure how sucessfull welding to the bar would be, expecially if its rusty where the collars were, but I guess it could work.

whereabouts are you?? if you are not far from me i could help you change it

Bit too far I suspect...Bristol, but many thanks for the offer.

Any idea what a tracking adjustment will cost if I drop the sub-frame and do the ARB myself?

Don't want to 'save' money on one part only to lose the advantage on the other....

Cheers,

David.

I was lucky on mine - It was the droplink to my coilovers which was knackered - A lot cheaper to replace (I hope) than the whole ARB.

My machanic managed to replace my bushes on the ARB without dropping the subframe but it was only the bushes that needed doing, if your ARB is fractured then is a drop of the subframe and then you will have to get the car 4 wheel aligned again.

if you carefully mark the postion of the subframe relative to the bottom of the car, you should be able to assemble it back into roughly the same position, you may be able to get away with no doing the tracking this way!!!