I went in to the dealer today for an oil change and also had Rick's X-brace installed. I'm at work now and don't have the USB cable for my digicam with me to download onto a computer so I'll post pics tonight. The brace was installed under the stock metal bracket thingies. I wasn't sure if we were supposed to leave the stock metal bracket things or take them off and mount the X-brace directly to the car frame but after taking the brackets off, it looked funnier mounting it that way than leaving the brackets on so I told the tech to leave them and he installed the brace under the brackets. So after the install, all that came off the car was the 4 stock bolts and nothing else. Is this right? Thanks.

 

Unless I did it wrong, your installation is correct.

 

sounds like what i did.

 

Sounds good

 

OK, here's a pic as promised -



I'm underneath the car (on the lift) looking to the rear of the car (top of pic is front of car, rear of car is towards bottom). As you can see, above the X-brace where the bolts are, there are metal brackets. The front of the X-brace bolted underneath 2 separate brackets but the rear of the X-brace bolted up to a big 1-piece bracket (each sides connected by what I at first stupidly thought of as the anti-roll bar - the anti-roll bar can be seen at the top corners of the pic).

Oh, and I take it that the bigger bolts are supposed to go into the taller cones on the X-brace?

 

looks good to me.. once the bolts are "torqued" to the correct lbs then is should be fine..

 

The front bolts look different than the rears. On mine, all four went up into the hole.