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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.

Man fits most expensive and cheapest suspension parts on Subaru and puts car on a shaker for a month to see what happens
Garage 54

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.

Man fits most expensive and cheapest suspension parts on Subaru and puts car on a shaker for a month to see what happens
Garage 54

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.

Man fits most expensive and cheapest suspension parts on Subaru and puts car on a shaker for a month to see what happens
Garage 54

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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Ben Thompson is a Senior Content Writer at supercarblondie.com. Ben has more than four years experience as a qualified journalist, having graduated with a Multimedia Journalism degree from News Associates. Ben specializes in writing about Teslas, tech and celebrity car collections.