After the gold whiteline adjustable endlink the previous owner had snapped in half I bought and installed the same gold Whiteline adjustable endlinks about 8 months ago to replace one side. Well about a week ago that snapped too... or so I thought.
After taking it off today, I realize the they were still in one piece, well kind of. The helical **** part of the adjustable part just came straight out of the socket! If Whiteline's adjustable endlink does this I can't imagine what's happening with ones from other brands. Yes my car is aligned and balanced (I do it at least twice a year), but we do have manhole sized potholes everywhere.
When I went in there to put on these solid endlinks today, the broken side obviously yanked the entire **** out, but I noticed the other side having been decently "stretched" as well. In other words, there's only so much tightening you can do to an adjustable endlink with a 10mm wrench so it'll loosen eventually regardless. Moving over to solid links mean that your suspension travel will be SECURED with zero chance of it changing, and evidently, after putting these on, the car handles SOOO much better, even better than the adjustable ones before they broke because they secure a smaller travel. The grip these activate with the Whitetline rear sway bars was insane, on curves that I usually go 40 max on, I was going 50 and it still felt slow, as in, I was giving it gas to get even high speeds coming through and out of a corner because it stabilized the car in the corners so much it gave me the confidence to try pushing it even MORE.
So unless you're running some crazy camber setup or something that NEEDS adjustable endlinks, just get these. THEY'RE LITERALLY THE SAME PRICE.
The install is simple (you needed hex sockets for the adjustable version but only 2 rachets/wrenchs with these) and the fitment was pristine. I was honestly worried that due to it not being adjustable fitment might be tough but nope, lines right up. If bolts don't slide in after confirming a complete hole alignment, just lightly smack it in with something, super simple.