I found the end link hanging below the family land barge (Detroit minivan)
this afternoon. Turns out the ~4 year old sway-bar broke off about 10
inches in from the end link. A couple questions for the list:
First, it's really a sway-tube. Is it lower weight or some other advantage
they are after in going with the hollow tube versus the solid bar as is on
the Alpine? I suspect a solid bar would have had 3X the weight, but
probably would not have broken off like this.
Second, is this kind of failure more typical than I had thought?
The sway-bar is really low on the long list of auto parts I normally think
of as having an aptitude for catastrophic failure. Sway-bars are supposed
to just fade away, right?
BTW - No tire scuffs or other signs of a hard hit on that side and nobody
recalls a loud pop or similar noise while driving - suppose it failed while
sitting in the parking lot ????
Thanks for any inputs and tolerating the non-Alpine content.
Regards, Bob Douglas
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