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Re: Anti Lift Kit for STi 2011 Sedan
I think there is a misconception about noise. I have had these (ones using the bearings) on 3 different personal cars (75K-ish miles between them)and NEVER had them come loose, or rattle ever (currently going on 4 years on my 08 STI with). The only time its loud is on big potholes. I think this is the case with most all our customers that live where there is no salt on the road. But we do know that it has happened on a few guys cars here and there.

I talked to Chris here who deals with our warranty on these kinds of things and he said it very rare that someone calls with a PSRS being loose. He couldn't remember the last time he sold a bearing to a PSRS customer. A couple weeks ago one of our track day customers brought by a couple pairs to replace bearings in them. Both had 2 years each of track abuse (roughly 20 track days each on them). They were loose, but not to the point of failure, just caused a little rattle. Because he was a returning customer we sold him new bearings and a very fair price. With that said from our chairs its not common to have them come loose and we really don't see much in the way of problems.

If you do have problems, and they are under warranty, then we will take care of you. If they are out of warranty and you are somewhat nice to us, we will get you a good deal on new bearings. We also can get customers SS bearings for a little more additional cost.

This part is a racecar type part that works very well for street use. With that said its not going to last 100k miles on the car (i have seen the OEM parts fail at 40K BTW). Also we don't expect every one of our customers to buy this part. And now that the 2011 STI has the same part as used in the EVO, we know there is even less potential customers interested. But in the EVO world we sell the crap out of these things and they love them (same part as the 2011 STI). I see two kinds of potential customers for the 2011 STI.

-The track day guy or aggressive street driver, who wants to get rid of the rubber and may want the optional added castor. This customer is a great potential customer for our PSRS.

- The other guy drives his car on the street 99% of the time and doesn't care about the removal of rubber and wants added castor. I hate to say stick with the stock part until there is a urethane version with added Castor. This potential customer is one that isn't interested in our PSRS.

We really think the bigger benefit is the removal of the rubber from the bushing and that is what customers are going to notice over the castor.

Not sure what the disclaimer has to do with dust boots or anything. But i can tell you that the simple $2 dust boost doesn't cut it. We have used these in the past and can be added to any of our PSRS's. The problem is they fail. Then you have a false sense of protection and may not look at your PSRS bearings ever.

If you live where the roads are salted or there is high corrosion going on, nothing lasts forever, especially those rubber boots. The bearings we use on our PSRS will stay nice and tight for a long time and only in the high corrosion areas might you see a shortened life span. But from what we see, they last plenty long enough. The best part is to fix them, its rather cheap and easy to do with out messing up the alignment.

I hope that helps answer some of the question and thoughts about our part. If you have more questions or comments, shoot them our way!
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