ive been reading some articles about the front c subframe and they are saying that its safe to take it off the car to save weight and run it without any thing ? is there any truth in this as mine is rotten and i need to get it through an mot fast

 

Don't do it ****s up your handling

 

Ive been running without mine for well over a year. No neg affects at all. On the positive side the car feels and steers a little nicer. I track mine as well as beaing a road car so its had a good thrashing without the c frame on

 

I think you will find most who have removed them will say the opposite

 

The C frame came off my bug over a year ago because it was badly corroded. The car handles very well without it, arguably better than it did. It's passed two MOTs without the C frame and removing it has saved a lot of weight too, so win-win

 

Right ive been under the car looking around and my only concern is what holds the bottom of the radiators in place or have i missed some thing ?

 

Mine also rusted...
Iv been driving withut for about a month with no difference noted, maybe a little more forgiving less tramlining. Iv purchased a sparefrom a scrappy which I intend to put on the car, it gets VERY mucky with snow n ice in the winter...

>->->-> unless anyone can tell me of a method to reattach the undertray without the C frame???

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Vik

 

took mine off today,when i was replacing rad,the corrision on was unbeleiveably so it was doing no good anyway,havnt got it back together yet so cant comment on handling,will do though wen done.

 

The U frame doesn't hold the radiator in, nor does it alter the handling.

It is simply an additional crash protection system.

Ditch it is my advice, but if you plan on having a head on crash at some point keep it.