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If you are thinking of buying anything from JBR (James Barone Racing), just be aware that your "lifetime" warranty is a joke. I had a rear sway that has busted the JBR supplied mounting brackets 3 times. Their warranty clearly stated a lifetime in 2015. See copy attached. JBR had a systematic problem with these sway bars brackets and what do they do? They rewrite the warranty on their website to say only products made by JBR directly have a lifetime warranty. These brackets are made by someone else for JBR. WTF?! Of course, those brackets come in the same JBR sway bar kit and are shown in the JBR instructions. Nothing was stated as to the warranty not applying until they all started breaking. This is not just a sway bar issue. As seen from complaints on BBB, they apply this warranty BS on other JBR components as well.

Maybe Mazda should stop warrantying all products made for them by subsuppliers. That would be about 90% of the car.
 

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If you are thinking of buying anything from JBR (James Barone Racing), just be aware that your "lifetime" warranty is a joke. I had a rear sway that has busted the JBR supplied mounting brackets 3 times. Their warranty clearly stated a lifetime in 2015. See copy attached. JBR had a systematic problem with these sway bars brackets and what do they do? They rewrite the warranty on their website to say only products made by JBR directly have a lifetime warranty. These brackets are made by someone else for JBR. WTF?! Of course, those brackets come in the same JBR sway bar kit and are shown in the JBR instructions. Nothing was stated as to the warranty not applying until they all started breaking. This is not just a sway bar issue. As seen from complaints on BBB, they apply this warranty BS on other JBR components as well.

Maybe Mazda should stop warrantying all products made for them by subsuppliers. That would be about 90% of the car.
Long known to break brackets...that's why they have these: JBR Tru-Torsion Billet Sway Bar Brackets and Bushings [TTB-BRKTS] - $79.99 : James Barone Racing, Aftermarket Performance

CS, too
 
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