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Series 1 owners, check your sway bar end links

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Old Nov 22, 2005 | 02:33 PM
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Pat..I'm surprised you wash your car. Bout the only thing you do to it.
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Pat..I'm surprised you wash your car. Bout the only thing you do to it.
i dont waste money on performance/maintainace things that arnt needed
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Let'* get badk on the posters topic....

Sorry about the stray.
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I Guess I got off lucky when I did mine it took me like 20min for the entrie job
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Default Sway bar end links
My passenger side one is missing on mine :( ... Oh well I still have one left
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My passenger side one is missing on mine :( ... Oh well I still have one left
One is a stability problem and could cause you problems handling and a crash.
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Default Expensive links...
Sometimes the rear ones cost extra. I had one break and it caught the wires from the ABS sensor and ripped them out. So that tacked on the cost of a hub assembly to the low-buck link replacement.
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did my fronts....man what a difference. Originals had hard bushings.
Make sure your inner spacers are the same length or you could ruin your alignment.
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Old Dec 5, 2005 | 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by 1993 SLE
i see no point in doing the endlinks(going against everyones experience and opinion) untill i do a suspension upgrade.......I have no problems with the links that are on there now
That'* the funniest thing I've heard in awhile. Swaybar endlinks are a normal wear item and on virtually every car here are completely worn out by the age of yours.

The only reason we use performance parts to replace the worn OEM'* is because they're cheaper.
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Old Dec 5, 2005 | 02:18 PM
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i see no point in doing the endlinks(going against everyones experience and opinion) untill i do a suspension upgrade.......I have no problems with the links that are on there now
That'* the funniest thing I've heard in awhile. Swaybar endlinks are a normal wear item and on virtually every car here are completely worn out by the age of yours.

The only reason we use performance parts to replace the worn OEM'* is because they're cheaper.
We remember mine right?


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