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122 torque mount broke off

On a more serious note, what did it feel like when that torque mount broke?

Rear end wobbling? Steering went crazy? or just a real loud noise and subsequent dragging noise of torque rod
 
Speaking of stress fatigue I just snapped an aftermarket hollow rear swap bar on my Golf as I articulated through a steep driveway, luckily it let go at .5 mph and not while cornering on the track at who knows what speed. It's been on the car for 9 years, 9 very hard years and 75k miles. I've seen and or experienced my fair share of mechanical failures in my automotive career, most people have been seriously lucky SOBs!
 
R32RennSport said:
Speaking of stress fatigue I just snapped an aftermarket hollow rear swap bar on my Golf as I articulated through a steep driveway, luckily it let go at .5 mph and not while cornering on the track at who knows what speed. It's been on the car for 9 years, 9 very hard years and 75k miles. I've seen and or experienced my fair share of mechanical failures in my automotive career, most people have been seriously lucky SOBs!
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I took a VW bar off at PNP once - found it hollow ... WTF and left it there .. thin walled stuff
 
R32RennSport said:
Speaking of stress fatigue I just snapped an aftermarket hollow rear swap bar on my Golf as I articulated through a steep driveway, luckily it let go at .5 mph and not while cornering on the track at who knows what speed. It's been on the car for 9 years, 9 very hard years and 75k miles. I've seen and or experienced my fair share of mechanical failures in my automotive career, most people have been seriously lucky SOBs!
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Those components are only supposed to be able to experience deflections that cause stresses below the endurance limit... hence, crappy engineering at the component level.
 
R32RennSport said:
Speaking of stress fatigue I just snapped an aftermarket hollow rear swap bar on my Golf as I articulated through a steep driveway, luckily it let go at .5 mph and not while cornering on the track at who knows what speed. It's been on the car for 9 years, 9 very hard years and 75k miles. I've seen and or experienced my fair share of mechanical failures in my automotive career, most people have been seriously lucky SOBs!
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I did this exact thing with my 2001 volvo s60. Front sway bar snapped at the support point on the subframe. Like you it was in a driveway on a steep bit at .5 mph. It was a solid bar though, pretty weird.
 
Jack said:
For sure they did. So did poly bushings, age, design and my hard driving. It takes few min with a welder to reinforce the mount as shown in TSB, just play it safe and add the plates
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I haven't seen the TSB for that reinforcement, have a link? Thanks for the heads up!
 
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