Toyota Celica - Rear anti roll bar

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Tue 4 Jan 2022 16:54
Toyota Celica - Rear anti roll bar - strickjumpers

Hello..could anyone confirm or not if a removed anti roll bar and attachments removed completely would impact on the passing of an MOT..

bar is corroded and hard to source.

thanks.

Mike

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Tue 4 Jan 2022 17:02
Toyota Celica - Rear anti roll bar - thunderbird

Your insurers would probably not appreciate you modifying the suspension even if it passed an MOT. Suggest you check with them first.

Surely there are specialist Toyota breakers out there who can help.

How about these. www.carpartlister.co.uk/breaking-vehicles/toyota/c.../

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Tue 4 Jan 2022 17:07
Toyota Celica - Rear anti roll bar - strickjumpers

It's so rusty below was looking to scrape and see if it could pass test..didn't want to spend if its to ne scrapped..would find fit sway bar if passed before putting on the road for real.

Thanks.

Mike

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Tue 4 Jan 2022 18:19
Toyota Celica - Rear anti roll bar - elekie&a/c doctor

From the mot manual, suspension component missing or an unsafe modification is a fail. Your only possible get out, is if some models were not fitted with an arb from new. On the transit connect vans, some models do have an arb, some don't.

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Wed 5 Jan 2022 04:25
Toyota Celica - Rear anti roll bar - edlithgow

From the mot manual, suspension component missing or an unsafe modification is a fail. Your only possible get out, is if some models were not fitted with an arb from new. On the transit connect vans, some models do have an arb, some don't.

Another possible get out might be if the tester forgot it had had one. Some of them are human.

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Wed 5 Jan 2022 04:30
Toyota Celica - Rear anti roll bar - edlithgow

Has it actually failed?. Roll bars are fairly substantial and it would take a lot of corrosion to significantly weaken one.

Linkages are another matter. I've had a Nissan Sunny failed because the flexible mounting link was rusted solid. Very difficult to remove.

Replaced it with one from an abandoned car so a technical theft.

Come and get me copper!

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Thu 6 Jan 2022 13:20
Toyota Celica - Rear anti roll bar - Railroad.

The anti roll bar serves a specific and definite purpose, to keep the outside wheel on the road when you go round a bend. You would not want to drive your car without one unless you're happy to lose control of it.

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Thu 6 Jan 2022 15:29
Toyota Celica - Rear anti roll bar - Andrew-T

The anti roll bar serves a specific and definite purpose, to keep the outside wheel on the road when you go round a bend.

The only wheels I have seen off the road on a bend have been on the inside ??

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Fri 7 Jan 2022 07:46
Toyota Celica - Rear anti roll bar - Railroad.

The anti roll bar serves a specific and definite purpose, to keep the outside wheel on the road when you go round a bend.

The only wheels I have seen off the road on a bend have been on the inside ??

Oops yeah, you're right.

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Thu 6 Jan 2022 16:32
Toyota Celica - Rear anti roll bar - galileo

The anti roll bar serves a specific and definite purpose, to keep the outside wheel on the road when you go round a bend. You would not want to drive your car without one unless you're happy to lose control of it.

Jim Clark's and Graham Hill's Lotus Cortinas always took Lodge corner at Oulton Park with the inside front wheel a good 6" off the tarmac.

Presumably they were set up that way, seemed to work as they beat the 7 litre Ford Galaxie's they were competing against.

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Thu 6 Jan 2022 17:55
Toyota Celica - Rear anti roll bar - bathtub tom

In my experience, a rear anti-roll bar improves 'turn in'. Many triallers remove them both (front and rear) altogether to improve articulation.

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