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I'm trying to work out the current slight handling shift in the car, wondering if it's a sign of something going wrong, or maybe it's just the heavy carpetting i put in the boot

What's the symptoms of a knackered ARB then, if it can actually go wrong without snapping completely and dragging on the ground? I know the car has one, despite being a 1-litre...
Either that or the girder-like wishbone strut at the rear that joins the two stub axles.

I'll not say anything on the symptoms immediately bcuz i want to see what's said

I know our front suspension setup is very different, but when my ARB Link broke, it made a clunking noise and made the front end feel a bit loose.

could it be ur bushes? or a leaky shock?

Steering feels vague, car more oversteery than it used to be, body roll seems a bit excessive...

(plus the guy who gave me a lift home in the rocket propelled metro? he dropped the polo off.. and commented on how horrible it felt to drive )

there does seem to be a small chunk missing on the front nearside shock mount..... i dunno..... not really sure how to describe these things.

If it is the bar, then it's probably more bent/fatigued than broke... last time the suspension got an unexpected hammering though, a clunking break of bar could have been hidden inside the noise.

(( I could solve all this by looking under the front, i know ))

Hmmm...
ARB and rear supports look fine, and the split thing on the front seems to be just a rubber protector-type thingy.

Tread and bolts are fine on all the wheels as well.

Maybe just an unrealised change in driving style
(that or the handbrake light coming on when the handle gets knocked upwards over bumps is a sign that the rears are coming on a lot of the time, rather than the switch being out of adjustment)