Prius V :: Bad Sway Bar After Less Than 100 Miles
Aug 18, 2015
I bought my v on Friday and drove it a lot over the weekend, so it has about 100 miles on it. It started knocking/rattling/creaking pretty badly with every bump on the way to work this morning, so I took it back to the dealer this afternoon. The dealership says it has a bad sway bar link causing the bar to pull to one side and rub/knock the frame. It sounds like before deciding it needed a new link the tech first pulled the bar back to center, drove it around the lot, and found it went right back to the side. That leaves me to believe the link at least wasn't obviously broken in half or disconnected or something.
I'm a bit concerned that such a basic part could go bad after just 100 miles. Could hitting a pothole be enough to damage it? I haven't hit anything substantial, but I got the car with about 20 miles on it, and the roads around the dealer aren't the best. If somebody busted it up in the first 20 miles, that doesn't bode well for the future, given Indiana winter roads. If it came bad from the factory, do I need to worry it's not the only thing rigged to fail? They didn't have the link in stock, so I'm stuck driving a camry loaner for at least a day.
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