As other listees have noted, the Vanagon indeed has a front anti-sway bar. These things are also variously called anti-roll bars and stabilizer bars, which is what it is called in the Bentley manual at 40.2: http://www.rb.com/volkswag/vv91/vv91.htm This is not an area where VW has skimped on engineering and some K-Mart solution will improve it. (There are no areas like that with Vanagons except for headlights, but you can't get the good ones at K-Mart.) Basic physics would suggest that a somewhat top-heavy truck with any kind of spring suspension will lean a little in corners. Things to do/check if lean is excessive: verify tires are correct specification and correctly inflated verify vehicle is not overloaded slow down |
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