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Old 03-29-2005, 10:48 PM
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HOLY "comptech" CRAP!

check out this thread...

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112416

i wonder how good quality our sway bars are...

theirs kinda looks like it has a silver coating like ours does... could be wrong though... kinda hard to see through all the RUST
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and i just bought it a few weeks back...
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yeah I know alot of the cl guys had the springs replaced b/c of bad rust. Mine were starting to get bad right b4 I changed to Tein SS coilovers
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And to think i was just about to order it..i'll wait
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Originally Posted by ayethetiense
check out this thread...

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112416

i wonder how good quality our sway bars are...

theirs kinda looks like it has a silver coating like ours does... could be wrong though... kinda hard to see through all the RUST
I am *almost* positive that the 3G swaybar is a SOLID piece of steel and you have no worries when it comes to it failing in that manner. The ends looked like they were formed from solid in a press....

Note the relatively cheap price of the 3G sway with respect to the 2g and older stuff.... Tube is harder to work with than solid material, and there are other secondary operations needed, increasing the cost??? I'm surmising here...

Bottom line, I think the sway we have for the 3G is good to go and is SOLID. It could only rust on the exterior (like everything else under your car!)
Old 03-30-2005, 07:27 AM
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Originally Posted by DarkWraith33
I am *almost* positive that the 3G swaybar is a SOLID piece of steel and you have no worries when it comes to it failing in that manner. The ends looked like they were formed from solid in a press....

Note the relatively cheap price of the 3G sway with respect to the 2g and older stuff.... Tube is harder to work with than solid material, and there are other secondary operations needed, increasing the cost??? I'm surmising here...

Bottom line, I think the sway we have for the 3G is good to go and is SOLID. It could only rust on the exterior (like everything else under your car!)
agree
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Originally Posted by DarkWraith33
I am *almost* positive that the 3G swaybar is a SOLID piece of steel and you have no worries when it comes to it failing in that manner. The ends looked like they were formed from solid in a press....

Note the relatively cheap price of the 3G sway with respect to the 2g and older stuff.... Tube is harder to work with than solid material, and there are other secondary operations needed, increasing the cost??? I'm surmising here...

Bottom line, I think the sway we have for the 3G is good to go and is SOLID. It could only rust on the exterior (like everything else under your car!)
Well said. Very thorough analysis, you could be right. I bet Comptech wouldn't risk to have the potential lawsuit and lose their reputation.
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I never knew that comptech sways were HOLLOW. i know Hotchkis makes really good sway and they are hollow. But i contacted them about making one for TL and they said not now.

But i never knew comptech had poor quality parts. news to me. ALSO... how did that bar RUST from the inside out. UNLESS there is a hole somewhere to let the moisture in.

TEIN also had problems of rusting a year or so ago. not sure if they started coating their coilovers with rust proofing.
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Thats bad. Corrosion=bad. No shit.
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Originally Posted by DarkWraith33
I am *almost* positive that the 3G swaybar is a SOLID piece of steel and you have no worries when it comes to it failing in that manner. The ends looked like they were formed from solid in a press....

Note the relatively cheap price of the 3G sway with respect to the 2g and older stuff.... Tube is harder to work with than solid material, and there are other secondary operations needed, increasing the cost??? I'm surmising here...

Bottom line, I think the sway we have for the 3G is good to go and is SOLID. It could only rust on the exterior (like everything else under your car!)
I agree also.... I installed it a couple of weeks ago and it is pretty heavy and solid. IMHO ... nothing to fear....
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do your homework.

the original springs made by comptech were not made by Eibach, hence the spring issue at that time.

all rear swaybars are solid steel. the pic in that one thread is a front swaybar, and i was not aware that Comptech made a front swaybar for 3g tl.

currently their is nothing wrong with Comptech springs or rear swaybar.
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