Sway Bar Removal

[Maddawg]

I took mine off two years ago. Your fears are unfounded. No problem, better ride and it still handles the same. What's the point of IRS if you tie them together, lol. Ok, if your doing slolam courses I can see it, otherwise take it off, but don't throw it away. For resale you might want to put it back on. HOWEVER, don't remove the rear! I did that and it is noticeably a different cat. Still driveable but with a degree of caution. Finally, take off the front but not the rear.

What prompted me to take the front sway bar off was I remembered the first thing to go on off-road VW's is the front sway. Hold it! I know you're going to say the VW has trailing arm IRS and the VX has A-Arms but with stiff torsion bars and shocks up front as well as in back the front sway bar is just an unwelcome passenger IMO.

[VXorado]

I took mine off two years ago. Your fears are unfounded. No problem, better ride and it still handles the same. What's the point of IRS if you tie them together, lol. Ok, if your doing slolam courses I can see it, otherwise take it off, but don't throw it away. For resale you might want to put it back on. HOWEVER, don't remove the rear! I did that and it is noticeably a different cat. Still driveable but with a degree of caution. Finally, take off the front but not the rear.

I'm going to disagree. I went without a front sway bar for a few months and noticed a big difference in handling. The VX felt softer up front but the turning was terrible. I remember the VX having trouble keeping up with a lifted jeep cherokee on a winding mountain road because I had to slow down so much on the turns. Even turning the VX in the city took a bigger rotation of the steering wheel. As for off road, IFS doesn't have much articulation anyways. I didn't notice much or any difference with the front sway bar being off.

All of our articulation is from the rear solid axle which does benefit from not having a sway bar. I drive the VX daily without a rear sway bar and haven't noticed much change in handling.

but off road...


I'll admit the rear axle gets too much articulation off road for the regular coil springs (they'll unseat) but there's ways you can address that issue. The idea is, the more flex you get from the rear axle, the longer all four wheels will stay planted on the ground.

Sorry Maddawg, but from my own experience... I 100% disagree.