ill GUARANTEE its because of the arms aswel. the reason i know so much about it lol, is, through my mk1. i didnt go into detail above, but ill try and keep it as short as possible. i had two arms fitted to my mk1 by rapid fit. after i got the car back, as i said above, it was all over the road. intially, i thought, maybe it was just me, as the arms they replaced were shot, and it just didnt 'feel' rite as i was sued to driving it on knackered arms. well as time went buy, it didnt get any better, so i took it back to rapid fit. they put it on the ramp, said they couldnt find anything wrong with it, so i thought fair enough. a few weeks later, i still wasnt happy, so i took it to ford. they put it on the ramp, and straight away, the guy says 'thats your problem' and points to the bottom arms. told him id only had them fitted recently, and he says, 'whoever did it, put the bolt in the wrong way round', i said wey surely that wont make a difference, or make it drive so badly. he then went and got the job sheet (hence how ive seen it), and showed me how ford do it.

long story short, i went back to rapid fit, told them this, they were not having it, so the guy from ford (as rapid fit are a subsidery of ford), went across the road, as the rapid fit is opposite the ford dealers, showed them the job sheet, and told them to refit brand new arms, the correct way, two front tyres, and do it free of charge which they did. BUT, they had to borrow the subframe alignment tool from my local ford dealers, as they didnt have one

also, while speaking to the guy from ford, he said, fitting one, or even two, sets of arms, with the bolt the wrong way round, wont pull the subframe out of alignment that much. but as mondy do eat arms, the more sets you change, the more it does pull the subframe out of alignment, and you end up with very bad tyre wear, and the car driving like a boat.

now with my 'expeirance' you would think id always get the subframe dropped. but glenny boy off here, put my car on the ramp where he works a couple of weeks before my mot, so we could check it over. we spotted both my arms were shot, but as they were genuine ford arms, and the bolts were in the correct way, either they were the original arms, or, my car has had arms fitted by ford, hence, i took my chances and fitted the new arms with the bolt the wrong way around, as its technically, the first set its had, so wont pull the subframe that far out alignment, it will be the next set, or the set after that, i will really notice a difference.

as i said, my cars lowered 40mm, and im running 215/35/18 tyres, and since my mot, ive had no tyre wear, and the car drives straight as a dye.