[WrathOTM]

Got my ECS tuning sway-bar installed today, huzzah! Feels better but in my limited drive this morning of compacted slow moving traffic there was little chance to tell the difference. But, it was noticeable just need more time. I can do a brief mountain run on my lunch break.

This however marks the end of a three-week and three sway-bar saga with Nolathane. They make a bunch of heavy-duty sway bars and they make one in 30mm for the 1 series. I made a post a while back on getting the wrong sway bar, as the first one was meant for a 12-15 Camaro. Well a little over a week later I got my replacement from Nolathane and this one was "correct". So I get down and get this new bar installed, and it did clear the control arms like it was supposed to BUT NO! This could not be installed.

See, my theory is Nolathane copied Eibach's 28mm sway bar and upsized it to 30mm and called it a day. The thing is, this fatter bar pushes the mount/bracket over by a several mm as the bar bends right next to the mount location. So as you can see from my pic I couldn't align one bracket whatsoever. This reallllllyyy pissed me off, as I just love not getting a job done twice in a row. I got back in touch with them and they refunded my money. What I was not expecting was for them to not want the other bars (remember I still got the Camaro bar) returned, see pic. So now I have a Camaro sway-bar and a poorly engineered 128i sway-bar and now an ECS Tuning sway bar! I went to a couple cars and coffees this last weekend to try and give away the bar meant for a Camaro, but alas the usual Camaro clan was not there at either location.

Also that 30mm bar meant for the 128i was ridiculously heavy, like really heavy, holy hell...

I challenge anyone to find an example of an E90 or E82 that has one of these bars installed or any Nolathane fuck-huge sway bar anywhere on the net. I couldn't. I think they know that they don't fit for shit and are just hoping for the best when people install them. I mean...why would they not want the Camaro bar back???