Whiteline Quality Issues - AE86 Adjustable Front Swaybar

[SRacin]

Hi All,

I have had some recent experience with poor quality of whiteline swaybars and wanted to share, and also find out if anyone else has experienced similar problems.

Over the last few months I have fitted 3 front bars BTF35Z. All have been silver bars, the worst two been identifable by having square cut ends to the blades, the 3rd had much more radiused ends (this one was supplied as a replacement to one of the other ones).

Basically the sway bars are not symmetical, which makes fitting them very difficult, it also requires some enlarging of the holes in the radius/castor arm mount brackets. They are out by ~30mm which may not sound like alot but basically it can still be made to work its just that the mounting brackets to the bottom arms have to be one on the inside and one on the outside.

Im not sure if anyone else has come across this, or just dont care but to me it doesnt seem right when you are buying an expensive product.

A couple of other small issues with them are that the holes in the blades are a little bit hap-hazardly looking in position. no biggie.

Other is that the brackets that mount to the bottom arms only have 3 holes in them and are no where near long enough when you are running alot of castor resulting in the droplinks being on a ~°45 deg angle on the stiffest setting. I will be making my own to replace them.

Cheers
Logan

[o_man_ra23]

What has Whiteline said about these issues?? Did you purchase them from a reputable Whiteline dealer?? Or were they Ebay specials??

[MR22ZZ]

do you have pictures of the issues to describe them better.
Are you sure it's the bar that's the problem and not your chassis?