Removing and installing anti-roll bar, vehicles with power steering — VW
Removing and installing anti-roll bar, vehicles with power steering on VW: 13 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Polo 9N (2001–2009)
📋 Procedure
- Remove front wheels.
- Remove noise insulation panel.
- Remove bolts (arrows).
- Remove hexagon nut (1) from coupling rod (left and right sides).
- Pull out coupling rod (3) from anti-roll bar (2) on left and right side.
- Unbolt steering box from subframe (1) and secure e.g. with wire.
- Fix position of subframe .
- Lower subframe using engine and gearbox jackV.A.G 1383 A.
- Remove anti-roll bar from one side.
- Fit anti-roll bar and bolt to brackets with the clamps.
- Secure subframe .
- Bolt steering box to subframe.
- Install wheels and tighten bolts or nuts .
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TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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