Good morning all, just wondering if i need to use mounting rubbers with my polo radiator on what is essentially a haynes roadster front end?
If search and found a few pics of people mounting radiators, but some have used rubbers and some havent, so which is the way to go?
If rubbers are the way to go what ones do i get...?

Also, has everyone mounted using the 4 holes on the back, or the two holes at the top and the two pins on the bottom?

[Edited on 4/6/09 by hellbent345]

please search - this exact question came up last week

nice.

anyway, searched again, and found the same pics, some do, some dont... what was it under?

where can one buy rubbers from?

people tend to just mount them solidly, without rubber.

In the past the matrix used was very fragile but modern aluminium ones are very strong and as above most are solidly mounted. However it's not difficult to do so why not? depending on the actual radiator you could use mini rubber bobbins

this company has loads of mounts - homepage linky

and this is the type I'd use - linky

here's another supplier who you can buy online - linky

[Edited on 4/6/09 by Mr Whippy]

I've used rubber mounts for mine to avoid any issues with vibration causing metal fatigue. It might not be so much of a problem with modern ally rads but for the sake of a couple of grommets it's worth doing IMHO.

Cheers,
Craig.

here is the same question

my bluebirds rad fell off due to the rubber mounts suffering from fatigue

thanks for the replies, sorry if it was discussed before, i couldn't find that thread on the search sorry...
i think i may as well get some bobbins and stop the vibes from happening

Thanks
Al