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Uprated rear shockers will make no difference what so ever. By lowering your car this much you are serverely limiting the distance at which the shockers can work over. They can only absorb bumps and damp the movement in the beam if they can turn the linear movement of the piston in the body into...
sounds like cable stuck/frayed around the exit of the plastic housing. Take your airbox/induction kit off and with the throttle closed check the butterfly is actually closed ie vertical. then push the pedal slowly to the floor (engine off, obviously) and see if the throttle opens in proportion...
Bushes (roll bar inner and outer, wishbone). Rod ends, ball joints, driveshafts, gearboxoil change. Check anything you can see! Handbrake cables are a favourite if your gonna venture that far back, then fuel filter and then rear end stuff...
This list can be endless on our cars!! All depends...
Theres no way you can tell how siezed they are just by looking at them. Chances are if they havnt ever been out then they will be pretty tight-with a decent size slide hammer (I use a driveshaft puller-works a treat) you can get almost any bars out.
WD will help but its got nowhere to go...
With a new(ish) car like that 106 GTI, whats the history gonna tell you? That some garage somewhere has change the oil every now and then and maybe remove-inspect-replace (the old) brake pads???!!! Older cars fair enough, bit of history is nice...
Unless its got highish mileage and should have...
crap manufacture,or a driver being a hooligan of the line far to many times. Or a combination of riding the clutch and the above...
You normally find its operator error........but not always!