Strut Bars
#11
nah, you're definitely the only one
seriously though, i am really surprised to hear this. i've been using ebay front and rear strut bars for 2 years and i've seen literally thousands of people use them with no problems. you are the first person i have ever heard have a problem with them.
i mean seriously, the strut bar is a metal rod with threaded ends and a bracket. it's kind of hard to make a crappy one.
and the other thing that makes this strange is: how the hell do you have enough chassis flex to snap a strut bar????
i take corners pretty hard on the back roads in my sol just for fun and because i can... i'd think if they were that crappy they would have snapped by now.
i think you just got a defective one, maybe with poor welds on the bracket? you should contact the ebay seller you bought it from... they might replace it, idk. i'd think they would, because i'm sure they've never had that problem before and would probably want to fix that because those ebay strut bars are usually surprisingly good quality. i think if you tell them how you've never seen anyone else have the same problem they might replace it because they'll know that it must have been defective.
seriously though, i am really surprised to hear this. i've been using ebay front and rear strut bars for 2 years and i've seen literally thousands of people use them with no problems. you are the first person i have ever heard have a problem with them.
i mean seriously, the strut bar is a metal rod with threaded ends and a bracket. it's kind of hard to make a crappy one.
and the other thing that makes this strange is: how the hell do you have enough chassis flex to snap a strut bar????
i take corners pretty hard on the back roads in my sol just for fun and because i can... i'd think if they were that crappy they would have snapped by now.
i think you just got a defective one, maybe with poor welds on the bracket? you should contact the ebay seller you bought it from... they might replace it, idk. i'd think they would, because i'm sure they've never had that problem before and would probably want to fix that because those ebay strut bars are usually surprisingly good quality. i think if you tell them how you've never seen anyone else have the same problem they might replace it because they'll know that it must have been defective.
Last edited by trustdestruction; 02-28-2009 at 01:17 AM.
#13
You do know that eBay is not the seller, right? eBay doesn't sell items. Different merchants use eBay to sell items.
#18
ebay is not at fault
#19
Another thing... most stores in real life do the same thing.
Have you ever been to WalMart? They sell cheap *** electronics made by never-heard-of chinese companies and they're flimsy garbage. It's not just eBay.
The reason that can happen is because this is a free market.
Also... given the odd situation of you being quite possibly the first person in the world to break an eBay strut bar unintentionally, I would suspect that maybe other factors played into this. How do we know that you installed it right? Did you adjust the bar correctly? Probably not.
eBay is a bunch of ****'s... they used to be good but now they're raising merchant fees and crap, very unreasonably. all they want is money.