Bora front arm bolts

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2003 1.9 TDI

Are the bolts for the front/rear bush mounts the stretch type? .... new required?
 
70Nm + 90° apparently - torque to yield bolts. So if reused, they could snap it seems.
 
Must admit I have hardly ever replaced bolts on vag stuff I just do them up by hand, never had any issues really in 20 years.
Replaced some subframe bolts on my Mk 5 Golf Gti but only because they are a bit of a problem area.
 
Common sense suggests if going to snap, they'll do so when being loosened. Just don't tighten them as much on reassembly.
 
Not sure if this will help, but I recently did a wheel bearing on Mrs. Avocet's Skoda. It was a bolt-in bearing pack. The three screws that held the bearing pack to the front upright were 70 Nm plus 90 degrees, but I don't think they were the stretch type. The big bolt that tensions the wheel bearing itself and goes into the end of the driveshaft WAS a stretch bolt (200Nm + 180 degrees).

Anyway, the bit that might be useful, is that if the OP has a set of metric thread gauges, you can sometimes tell if the old bolt was a stretch bolt, because the pitch of the threads isn't quite right after they've been used. I was surprised, but when I offered the thread gauge up to the new bolt, it was an exact fit at the appropriate pitch (1.5mm I think), but against the old bolt, it was slightly, but visibly out.
 
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