It actually is built well and really stiff for horizontal rigidity. I had to put some serious force on it for only a couple millimeters of movement to align the bolt. It's not like cooked linguini, maybe uncooked tho.. I did appreciate the sarcasm regardless.

 

I think when it comes to strut bars, the more complicated a design gets, the less usefull it becomes. I'd personally never buy any strut bar that was made of more than 2/3 pieces put together. No matter how you look at it, they lose rigidity when cornering hard. If I were to get one, I'd look into something like this:


...or this one:


As flimsy as it looks, this Neuspeed FUSB was the best one I've ever owned for any of my cars, made of just one piece. Again, keeping it simple works the best..it's just too bad Neuspeed doesn't have one for our Fits.