They tend to wear down or ‘perish’ over time. You should usually try to check your anti-roll bar bushes every 6,000 miles or six months (or at the intervals recommended in your car’s service schedule). A new anti-roll bar bush should only cost around £10 and will be quick and easy to replace.

Use a bar to prise away the anti-roll bar, so that you can slip the new bush into place. Remove the nuts, bolts, washer clamps and spacers from each mount, at each end and towards the centre of the bar. Collect all the pieces and keep them in the correct order.

The anti-roll bar itself normally doesn’t break and can last a lifetime as it’s simply a metal bar. The bushes, though, are made from plastic or rubber and can wear down or perish over time. Often wear to bushes can be identified by knocking or squeaking noises that occur when driving through corners.

Symptoms of Bad or Failing Stabilizer Bar Bushings

1. Sluggish response in vehicle handling.
2. Rattling underneath the car.
3. Squeaking noises from under the car.
4. Always let a professional mechanic repair stabilizer bar issues.

The Best in Auto Repair The average cost for stabilizer bar link kit replacement is between $129 and $140. Labor costs are estimated between $44 and $55 while parts are priced at $85. This range does not include taxes and fees, and does not factor in your specific vehicle or unique location.

If you suspect that a sway bar is broken, you can still drive the car, but you must use caution. It will feel “looser”, particularly when driving at high speeds. It’s very possible that this will cause you to lose control of the car, resulting in a serious accident if you’re not prepared for it.

Vehicles can be driven safely without a sway bar or with it disconnected. The vehicle does feel different while cornering but is not “uncontrollable”. Just take corners at legal posted speeds or lower and be careful changing lanes on the highway.

Bushings should take maybe 30-40 minutes to change (in pairs) front and rear.

The average sway bar link replacement cost is usually between $125 to $160 including labor. The links themselves cost between $40 to $110 each, while the labor will set you back anywhere between $50 to $70.

Because the sway bar itself is a torsional swing, the sway bar link smooths the motion transfer between the sway bar and the control arm. The sway bar link maintains the camber angle of the inner wheels to control motion. Like many automotive parts, over time the sway bar links will wear out.

Broken anti-sway bar end links do not cause tire wear. Depending on the vehicle you’re driving, you may have a front or a rear sway bar, or you may have both. If you suspect that a sway bar is broken, you can still drive the car, but you must use caution.

Driving without sway bar end links can be dangerous because as you’ve noticed, the vehicle will not steer correctly. Sway bar end links are meant to stabilize a vehicle when turning and at high speeds. You can have your sway bar end links installed by YourMechanic for 97.00.