Adjustable strut rods

Like I said, the heims on my adjustable strut rods have done well over 60k miles without any significant wear. Those are year round, all weather miles. The set on my Challenger will do 100k miles no problem IMHO. Now, that’s at the strut rod, that hasn’t been my experience with heims at the UCA’s. But adjustable strut rods with heims are not track only parts, they’re fine for daily drivers and they'll outlast a lot of OE bushings. Including OE strut rod bushings.

The caster change argument against the adjustable strut rods is a theoretical exercise in futility. First, has anyone arguing it’s a problem even stopped to consider that there’s significant caster change in the original strut rods because of the amount of give in the bushings? Hard braking, hard acceleration, cornering loads, they all collapse and expand the strut rod bushings, allowing the LCA to move fore/aft, which changes the caster even without consideration for the separate arcs of the LCA and strut rod. That’s part of the reason why there’s adjustable strut rods on the market to begin with!!! Because the OE strut rods and bushings allow for slop.

Yes, there’s a little caster change that has to happen because of the differences in the arcs of travel for the LCA and the strut rod. But I’ve sat there and cycled my suspension through its full range of travel. And I’ve done it over and over again, all to tune out any binding and slop. And let me tell you, there’s no significant fore/aft movement in the LCA in that range. Yes, my car is lowered, yes, the suspension travel has been reduced. But if there’s just about nothing in the way of change in that range, I can’t see it being worse than the OE bushings even for a car with a more stock range of travel.

Until I see actual numbers showing that there’s enough caster change to be a problem, AND it’s actually worse than using OE parts that also definitely contribute to some caster change, it’s BS just like e-burgers assessment of the FMJ spindles.

I know for a fact it’s not a problem on my car. Which means I’d bet it’s not a significant issue on most of the cars that will be running adjustable strut rods to begin with, because most of those cars will have some degree of larger torsion bars and reduced suspension travel.