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All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: Clarkj93 on April 27, 2022, 09:00:05 pm

Title: Hard Race bushings and control arms?
Post by: Clarkj93 on April 27, 2022, 09:00:05 pm

Anyone here have experience with Hard Race items with the mk5? Or even in general? Never really see them advertised or sold by the main VAG tuners/distributors.

https://www.hardrace.co.uk/catalog/category/view/s/vw-golf-mk5/id/2367/

Some of their stuff is more expensive than using SuperPro bushes but comes with the benfit of being either a hardened rubber material or rose joints. Seemingly avoiding polybushes almost completely which is not the perfect solution for avoiding geo deflection as they can "set".

I've heard of the JDM guys using them but that's about it!

Title: Re: Hard Race bushings and control arms?
Post by: Hypertuned on April 28, 2022, 05:22:59 am

Don't think they have much of a presence in UK as they're a Taiwanese company.
I have their rear camber arms (hardened rubber) as for me they were only marginally more than stock.

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Title: Re: Hard Race bushings and control arms?
Post by: pudding on April 28, 2022, 08:38:23 am

Looks like good stuff  :happy2:

I like in the descriptions, "Fitment Guaranteed".  Well, you'd certainly hope so  :grin:

Title: Re: Hard Race bushings and control arms?
Post by: Hypertuned on April 28, 2022, 08:43:33 am

Quote from: Pudding on April 28, 2022, 08:38:23 am

Looks like good stuff  :happy2:

I like in the descriptions, "Fitment Guaranteed".  Well, you'd certainly hope so  :grin:

You might be surprised to find there are aftermarket products which have poor fitment.

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Title: Re: Hard Race bushings and control arms?
Post by: pudding on April 28, 2022, 11:51:08 am

Oh totally.  There's a lot of utter garbage out there, most of which comes from AutoDoc.

That site just tickles me with no bigging up sales jargon, focussing just on "it fits" and "Secure payments"  :grin: :grin: :grin:

The consoles look good, but it's not clear if "big rubber" is Chinglish for poly.  Looks a bit shiny to be big rubber  :grin:

Title: Re: Hard Race bushings and control arms?
Post by: LC5F on April 30, 2022, 10:58:24 am

£770 for alloy front control arms - for that price I would prefer OEM ones.

Title: Re: Hard Race bushings and control arms?
Post by: pudding on April 30, 2022, 11:43:32 am

That's cheap compared to the Verkline stuff!