+1 I want proof, mine seem "unbreakable" how the hell do they break unless you help them by driving over a fire hydrant or wrecking your car somehow!

 

well my sway have been good no problems yet

 

hotchkis sways are pretty solid, when i bought mine last year from them they told me they had recently improved the welds so that breaking them was unlikely.

 

They're all over Ebay...I know since I found my Hotchkis on there a few weeks ago, and I kept seeing these Godspeed ones all over the place - and very cheaply priced. Now I know why.

 

I will say Godspeed says it was a defective weld, actually i didn't get fully welded , only tacked. They also had a new one to TokenZ within 4 days.

 

1. why would a swaybar have to be welded at all....especially at a load point like where it mounts to the car. That is the definition of lame. We all know why they did it this way though, so that brings us to the second point

2. cheap **** is cheap ****, always, always, always. Sure, you can buy cheap sways and then you get to wonder what? Whether it will brake? When it will break? Those are great things to have to be concerned about. What if it snaps when your on an exit ramp? What if it's also raining? Is it worth saving ~$120 for this pile of dung disguised as a swaybar to risk putting your car and your safety at risk? I guess for some, that risk is worth it because hey, they got you a new one in 4 days and they offer a "lifetime warranty" (reassuring, coming from a company that would make and sell such dreck in the first place). If you were to spend the small extra $ you would never have to worry "is today the day by swaybar snaps"....you would know you had a quality piece in there, that will never break unless you take a sawzall to it.

 

Probably better off keeping the stock sways vs. using Godspeed

 

No probably about it. At least the OEM are reliable.

 

For the average person who never track their car , those sways are just fine. There not adjustable, most people don't know how to adjust them anyhow. Funny about the swaybar breaking part mentioned above, the owned didn't even know the bar was broken, so why didn't he spin off the road and crash Z1 performance?? Welded end caps on a hollow bar, well if you know anything about welds , they are typically stronger than non welded stuff , if the weld is properly done.

 

For the avg person who doesn't track their car, stock swaybars are just fine too...and guess what, they don't break. A broken swaybar = a waste of money and a potential safety hazard. I'm not Kreskin, so I can't tell you why he didn't spin off the road. Maybe it's because maybe he got lucky; or maybe it broke when he was going in a straight line, or drove over something. The why isn't important...the simple fact that something that, by it's very nature, is supposed to be rigid and strong in fact broke, tells you everything that needs to be told and makes it the POS that it is. A Hotchkis bar doesn't break, a Cusco bar doesn't break, a Progress bar doesn't break, a NISMO bar doesn't break - not even a stock Z sway bar breaks. And you know what? Used versions of all these bars, which I'd bet you can find in abundance for right around the same price as he paid for these El-Junko specials (in case he didn't have the extra $120 to spend on a new set of Hotchkis, for example) don't break either. Why? Simple - Quality Control. Something that a $200 pair of sways obviously doesn't buy you. The ebay listings all tout that the bars are "street tested and track abused" or some ******** to that affect....I guess not in this case. Maybe the company was too busy making verticl door kits, or fake Hello Kitty lunchboxes that day that they let the welders slack a bit on the swaybar welds. These are ghetto with a capital G

 

lol hello kitty lunchboxes lol

 

 

^Z1 gets mad and goes off and peolpe respond with a hello kitty lunchbox... wow... sad but funny /

 

welcome to August 08...and try reading the posts lolol - I mentioned the Hello Kitty, someone else just posted the picture

 

i did read that. how could i miss it. that why it was funny
whats wrong with that?

 

This is an old thread but I'm glad I ran across it 🤣🤣🤣
@travlee you might find this entertaining

 

I really dont care as I moved on from this platform, 11 years later I am sure they have different employees and practices but never read of any problems

 

I was referring more towards the conflict between these guys and Z1. Reading this thread was pretty funny especially at the end

 

Not gonna lie I quick scrolled through it.