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well im about to buy used rsx sway bar 19mm with bushing,
is it bad idea to buy USED sway bar.
does it really matter? [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG]

 
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It's not bad. It's not like the bar is weaker or anything...


Well worth the money...it has saved my life countless times.

 
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no problem bro they don't wear out. You would'nt know where i could get the hook up on the same deal?

 
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never mind

 
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Haha, what the hell do you do? Use it as a shield from bullets? [IMG]i/expressions/laugh2.gif[/IMG]

Anyway, technically speaking... If the sway bar were to be bent beyond it's capability to spring back into shape then it'll be slightly out of whack. It'll have a stiffer rate on one side than the other. Don't know how much we're talking about, but maybe a situation where cornering the outside tire hits a huge bump. That might be enough for the sway bar to be bend to such an extreme. Besides that there's rust if the paint wears away. All in all though, you can't really wear out a sway bar. Actually, there's also material exhaustion. This makes the sway bar stiffer over time and could lead to breaking if the sway bar were flexed severely very rapidly. This effect is very slight when the intervals of flexing are long. Say even as little as half a second. Anyway, this is something else theoretical that doesn't really apply to the real world in this case.

 
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Wouldn't you want new bushings?

 
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If the stock ones are made for a smaller sway bar diameter, then yes. Otherwise rubber doesn't really deteriorate that quickly. You should get the bushings with the RSX sway bar, 'cause the other dude isn't going to need them anyways.