So My hotchkis front sway bar snapped into 2 pieces this weekend, Here are some pics of it.











I did remove the broken piece but the majority of the bar is still on the car, my main concern is how far can I drive with me not having a front sway bar, I know of snap oversteer and I will be mindful of it, this is my daily and I drove it home after removing the smaller portion of the bar and it drove fine, I did detect a little instability but that is to be expected. Now to contact hotchkis to see what they can do.

 

i wanna know how u did that.

 

wow....how did that happen....

 

either that was a faulty bar or you really put it under the stress test. man keep us informed!

 

hmm should be faulty one, its supposed to be stronger than stock, first sway i heard that was broken. how hard did you drive?

 

wow!!!!! how in the world did this happen?

 

holy geez sap, where did you go?

 

ah screw it ill say it, i was autocrossing with the BMW club lmaooo i wasnt driving any more aggressive then i normally would but in general im pretty sure this shouldnt happen. gonna contact hotchkis and say wats up.

 

but i did prettty decent against the bmw's

 

WHOAAA can someone move this to TC suspension I poped it in the wrong section.

 

 

lmaooo yeaaaa also what kinda damage would i do to my other suspension components if I continue to drive on this for a week or two until I can get a replacement.

 

i'm not sure about damages to other susp. components but i wouldn't risk it! swap back to oem front sway while you get a replacement. I swapped back to OEM front sway when it got bent in an accident and since i have not had a time to order a new one i put back the OEM and kept the rear hotchkis so far no problem.

 

i def don't have the means to do the front sway I heard you have to remove a subframe and ish and dont got time to do that so ill get it done by a shop. its kinda expensive but its warrantied so well see i guess.

 

Contacted Hotchkis, they are sending me a new one, should be here by thursday.

 

That's nuts. You don't really hear of one just snapping like that.
Glad to hear Hotchkis is sorting it out for you.

 

thats good to hear, just be safe till then.

 

and that will snap too

 

=/ nawww it wont

 

fun times :D