Stainy

Fitted a Whiteline rear ARB and droplink set just over 12 months ago. Done less than 5k miles and the N/S/R droplink has snapped

Clearly I'm not a rally driver, so was expecting a bit better longevity than that. Any suggestions, before I make the call on Monday?

JonMc

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TBH, I've found whiteline to be sh!te, all of the stuff I've had has corroded and I had a rose jointed front drop-link fall apart after about 3k

Stainy

after some quick digging, some of their stuff is guaranteed for 3 yrs I hope it includes this bit, because 5k miles and just over a year is sh*te - what's the betting I can't find the receipt

Gambit

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What type of rear droplink? One of the big thick C type ones?

360ste

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ALL my whiteline stuff is still good, okay silver paint on ARB bogged off but theey are 8 years old.

bighead

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mine's been on my P1 for 10 years now ...still as good as new !

stu turbo 98

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Not trying to be BIGHEADED or anything,but ive had my oem plastic ones for 14 years now and ive had no issues so far

wrxyz

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One word... Perrin

Shaid

Yep, i've had the same so went back to oem plastic. Much cheaper and a lot happier. Plus our roads are crap so a little give somewhere is brilliant.

his-n-her-scoobs

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Uk MY97 wagon running standard arb and suspension in good condition, 16 inch rims, daily driver.

On the demise of the placky rear drop links I fitted alloy rear drop links and found the understeer reduced slightly and back end firmer with a bit more power on control. Nothing spectacular, just less vague. Ran like this for about a year.

Fitted front alloy drop links on the demise of the placky ones. Found the front thumped like a bugger and understeer all over the place in the wet. Lasted about 6 months then went back to placky front drop links.

On front and rear alloy drop links the car felt and behaved like the standard car, just uncomfortable. My car behaves better on rear only alloy drop links. Can only surmise that the apparent reduction in understeer comes from slightly unbalancing the rear.

Stainy

No, the steel ones, which look damned expensive for a length of steel bar with a loop in each end!

I found my original receipt (Bought 12/2011 and fitted 01/12) and they were bought from here as part of a GB, so we'll see what the supplier says on Monday.....

Stainy

*Update*

The parts have been replaced by Whiteline and I now have a shiny set of Drop Links ready to go on......

The only snag to that is that I didn't want to wait weeks with a broken Drop link, so I went to Apex and bought a set of theirs......Which, by the way are MUCH better quality than the Whiteline ones, which will be going on eBay shortly.

Big to the original suppliers INDIGO-GT for sorting the replacement with White Line. Also to APEX for sorting a good discount on hearing my tale of woe

wrx271

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You won't go far wrong with ant