TRD sway bar broken after 20K miles
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JoanMarshall



Joined: 05 Jul 2007
Posts: 65
Location: Sclarita

Posted: 8/22/08 2:42PM    Post subject: TRD sway bar broken after 20K miles  

Heard a pop and an intermitant metal rattle. Took it to the dealer and the technician showed me where the sway bar busted all the way through the weld on the right side and was cracked on the left. The dealership replaced it with a new sway bar but also mentioned to me they thought it was a bad design or badly engineered. When the next one breaks and it is no longer under warranty, what kind should I get installed? sorry wrong forum...
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Stylis



Joined: 28 Aug 2003
Posts: 6030
Location: Scion Evolution

Posted: 8/22/08 2:51PM    Post subject:  

thats weird, I have the progressive sway bar and its initially the same design. Hope this doesn't happen to me with mine.
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evosky



Joined: 28 Mar 2006
Posts: 2011

Posted: 8/22/08 3:00PM    Post subject:  

tone down the intense cornering!
haha jk. dunno, maybe it was just a faulty one.
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DriverXa



Joined: 26 Feb 2007
Posts: 580

Posted: 8/25/08 1:50PM    Post subject:  

Sounds like you just a defected unit. My TRD swaybar has been rocking solid for almost 20k miles now.
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cobb



Joined: 16 Apr 2007
Posts: 1399
Location: Richmond, VA

Posted: 8/25/08 7:00PM    Post subject:  

I have both front and rear Hotchkis bar, love em. I may stack a second rear bar in the future.
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bmph8ter



Joined: 15 Jun 2007
Posts: 259

Posted: 8/25/08 9:14PM    Post subject:  

It almost had to have been a defective bar. There are untold thousands of these bars out there, and this is the first failure story I've heard. Personally, I'd rock it and not worry about it breaking again.
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