VW CADDY Gets Major Suspension Repairs. Spring + Top Mount + Drop Link Replacement 

Far from incompetent my friend that's a fair big job on them caddys. Good on ya

The world needs more Caddy Videos :-)

The man loves he's hammer, as people have said there is a simple spread tool to remove the hub which makes the job even easier, a little research can save a lot of time!

A lot of work, but glad you sorted it, well done.

Thanks for a good video. suspension change is a nightmare when its rusty and seized up makes an hours job into a weeks work.

Beautiful stuff

Definitely not an incompetent mechanic mate, it really is a pig of a job. Bloody VW's 😂 What happened to me was the top mount bolts seized in the nuts and the rivnuts ended up spinning in the mounts 🤦🏼‍♂️ thank god for the Dremel grinders 😂

good job that buddy, and you got lucky with them 3 top bolts👌

I've just replaced the shocks, springs, lower ball joints, parallel torsion joints and 2 "axel rubbers" but removing the wipers isn't necessary... I'm actually washing my oily hands right now....... Remove the axel end and the 3 bolts in the lower ball joint and then put a chisel in the gap in the lower end of the shock.... The only thing to do is to put some WD40 in between the shock and the mount.... Then tap and it will almost fall off... Be careful about the brake line....

I just did this job on a mk5 golf with 40mm lowering springs. Didn't have to touch the wiper cowel, there was enough flex to shove my paw in towards the bolts. One of the captive nuts on the top mounts dropped out so that was a pain to hold underneath whilst undoing it. I got away with just undoing the wishbone, didn't have to undo the axle bolt. There's a socket bit you can get that spreads the hub by slotting in and turning it 90 degrees. It just drops off the shock then. Probably worth it if you're doing them all the time. It's one of those jobs that you could do in half the time now after the first go! 👍

I'm gonna lift the rear of my caddy 3 inches and the front 2 for that buggy lean and more weight in the front. Baha Caddy coming soon haha

What a pain of a van to work on good vlog 👍

What's the torque spec for when you put the drive shaft back on please and thank you!!

Tack!

Was the pause, cut and jump to seeing it installed as you were putting the caliper back on down to having to persuade it over the sizeable lip on the disk? That van looks like a right pain. Good work sticking with it and resisting hitting it with a sledge hammer. ;)

You ain't an incompetent mechanic. Jobs like that are almost enough to put anyone off. Often mechanics say to replace droplinks, ball joints, springs and shocks in pairs and do both sides. Realistically we go round roundabouts in the UK clockwise which wears the offside more than the nearside and our roads in here in Scotland are not fit for anyone with the potholes, wear and tear and often an adverse camber. The offside always fails first.

4" grinder is your best friend, most of the fasteners you remove are replaceable so cut them off.

There's a special tool to open the strut sleeve. I've seen them on ebay or Amazon. I use a bigger hammer not a chippie hammer. That and lots of wd40 and a pry bar.

The opposite side will be next! Vag cars can be a pain for access

Was just going to start mine at 7pm in the rain and it dark . I am glad I have watched this....typical vw..... Why can't they male them simple like ford

Yrs removing shaft is how they do it in Autodocs tutorial but then they show a newly greased strut wich is BS..... ;)

New disks next?

plm multa munca.o duc la servis