Man fits most expensive and cheapest suspension parts on Subaru and puts car on a shaker for a month to see what happens
Published on Nov 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM (UTC+4)
by Ben Thompson
Last updated on Nov 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Emma Matthews
This man fitted the most expensive and the cheapest suspension parts onto a Subaru before putting the car on a shaker for a month.
YouTube channel Garage 54 has done plenty of experiments with cars before.
This time around, he wanted to see what being on a shaker nonstop for a month would do to this Subaru.
And more crucially – how would the suspension parts hold up, whether on the cheap or the pricier side?
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What happened to this Subaru after a month on a shaker?
The team over at Garage 54 has done some pretty unorthodox car experiments in the past.
Remember that time they drove cars repeatedly over different speed bumps just to see if they could handle it?
And then there was the time they fitted a propeller to a car to see if it would make it faster.
This time around, they were fitting suspension parts onto a Subaru – one set was cheap, the other was pretty expensive.
The cheap set came out at $124, while the other cost $316.
Once he acquired them, he placed them on a Subaru Forester, with the cheap ones on one side and the expensive ones on the other.
Parts included shock absorbers, sway bar links, bushings, and a rear suspension arm.
How would these parts fare when on the shaker?
The results of this experiment paint a clear picture
For the first days on the shaker, things looked pretty normal for both sides of the Subaru.
But then a knocking noise appeared.
The cheap sway bar link broke completely, and other parts began failing in succession.
Ultimately, the experiment had to be terminated when suspension degradation got so severe that the car was sliding off the machine.
The team disassembled the suspension for inspection, and it was a stark picture.
The expensive parts all looked showroom new, while all the cheap parts had sustained damage to some extent.
“It’s up to you what sort of parts you want to fit to your car,” the host told his subscribers.
“But I think the outcome is clear. Make of it what you will.”
To see the results for yourself, visit Garage 54’s YouTube channel.
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Following stints at LadBible, The Sun, The New York Post, and the Daily Mail, Ben joined the team full-time in February 2025. In his role as Senior Content Writer, his sparkling copy, the ability to sniff out a good story at 100 paces, and a GSOH quickly led to him becoming an integral and invaluable member of the writing staff.
