MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: pandaman on October 15, 2020, 09:31:34 pm

Title: APR pendulum mount - Price check.
Post by: pandaman on October 15, 2020, 09:31:34 pm
Bought this APR pendulum mount beginning of 2019, installed it and it was great.

(https://i.imgur.com/vmCjvft.jpg)

But after a while something started to rattle, only way to solve it was take off the pendulum mount.

(https://i.imgur.com/T7D42Xs.jpg)

I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the mount, and if i had the patience and time i could get it to work properly.

But for the last year and a half it has sat in my shed. The bolts included are reusable as stated by the website. http://www.goapr.co.uk/products/pendulum_mount.html (http://www.goapr.co.uk/products/pendulum_mount.html)

So now i'm thinking of selling it.

It's currently £282.65 new i think i paid about £260.

I'm not looking for anywhere near that, so before i list it i was wondering how much people would be willing to pay.

Hopefully no silly offers but i'm open to a fair bargain for whoever wants it.

Or if anyone knows what the rattle could be and how to fix it i'd probably give it another go!

EDIT: when i say list it i mean on the for sale page here, not ebay.
Title: Re: APR pendulum mount - Price check.
Post by: pudding on October 17, 2020, 02:42:47 pm
The rattle could be anything, but if removing the mount solved it, I'd call that a win personally!

I think a solid mount will only appeal to quite a limited audience, due to the increased NVH, but maybe try £200 and see where that goes.  You may have shot yourself in the foot admitting it's sat in the shed for ages and you took it off because it caused a problem though  :grin:
Title: Re: APR pendulum mount - Price check.
Post by: pandaman on October 17, 2020, 05:17:38 pm
You may have shot yourself in the foot admitting it's sat in the shed for ages and you took it off because it caused a problem though  :grin:

Honesty is the best policy  :innocent:

Don't want anything near £200, and it could be good for some one with a track car maybe.
Title: Re: APR pendulum mount - Price check.
Post by: pandaman on October 17, 2020, 10:10:13 pm
OK right, got it out the shed, now i have an urge to get this right, and i've had an epiphany!

Had a closer look at my picture of when it was fitted to my gti, and the photo on APR's website.
(https://i.imgur.com/ogKILzD.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/emadPAa.jpg)

Where the red arrow is pointing on my picture, the subframe looks slightly different.

Then i thought, there's 2 types of dogbone inserts for different aged gti's, so what about the subframe itself??

(https://i.imgur.com/WNbKe1K.png)


So now i need to find out, is the subframe different between these models? could THIS be the reason that i get a knocking sound?

And what can i do to rectify it? shave off a bit off the mount? Getting ahead of myself here though :thinking:

My Golf is 2005, i forgot to mention
Title: Re: APR pendulum mount - Price check.
Post by: pandaman on October 20, 2020, 01:41:54 am
Ignore my last post, i may have had a few beers when i had that epiphany :drinking:

Sober me decided to email APR and low and behold they replied saying that the dogbone insert can cause fitment issues, so, i have asked for a suggestion to replace it and hopefully this will solve the problem.

Once they reply and i have swapped the insert and re-fitted the pendulum mount i will report back!