J and R driveshafts?

Looking into getting some new driveshafts and came across this company. £33 for one with 2 years warranty and they apparently use Motorsport materials. As well as this they use a solid forged steel stub instead of a hollow one. They have sold over 300 of these on eBay.

1. Has anyone on here used them?
2. Will having solid stubs cause vibration at speed? I'm sure they are hollow for a reason.

I have bought one driveshaft for my peugeot runaround and everything seems ok and looks good quality but is a different story for a high performance car.

Thanks

I have them but haven't used them yet. I have used one of their CV joints on our Vitara where the front CV joints are a known weak link on lifted vehicles (steep drive shaft angle + wide grippy mud tyres + low ratio box = some pretty large torque being transferred). So far I've destroyed two OEM Suzuki CV joints and now I've been running J&R for a year with no issues. I have kept my old EK9 drive shafts just in case these are not good but at less than £70 delivered for both sides I thought I'd give them a shot. Solid stub shouldn't cause any vibration, it is at the very center of the wheel where any imbalance will have a very limited effect. The shaft itself could vibrate though. If they do vibrate I'm going to remove the CV joints and pop them on my old OEM shafts.

Have been to there facility in Birmingham not far from me. They are basically a storage unit with a load of driveshafts that come over from China.
I have been using there cv joints on my turbo teg and it seems to be holding up fine. No doubt there driveshaft will hold up ok, As I know few using them on turbo cars/Honda's. Tbh it's a good deal and worth the money.

Ok cheers guys ill give them a shot. Some negative reviews on other car forums regarding vibration at speed and bad customer sevice regarding refunds etc

loveland said:

Ok cheers guys ill give them a shot. Some negative reviews on other car forums regarding vibration at speed and bad customer sevice regarding refunds etc

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Hmm I also seen those reviews. So I decided to used their cv joints on my oem shafts just to be safe. Whereas other people I know have been using the full shafts with no problems.

When was the last time you bought something, it was working fine and you went and wrote a review? And how many times have you done it with stuff that didn't work? I'm not saying it can't happen - compared to Honda they are almost certainly going to be inferior, but for the money even if I have to put the CV joints on my old OEM shafts they are worth it imho. I doubt they will be much worse than the Yonakas Tegiwa sell, if there is any difference between them at all (other than the huge difference in price of course)

stay away from J&R!!!

Got a replacement driveshaft with both inner and outer CV's for 45 quid last year and it lasted all of 3 weeks before it snapped clean under very minimal load. Just for reference that was in a 120bhp yaris and I wasn't driving like I was on a track!

after you've paid the postage to send the ****** one back they take 3 months to process the refund and then when you take into account the time / money to fit it in the first place and then to re-fit a new one you're a fair bit out of pocket.

Pay the extra and get OE shafts... the phrase 'OE Quality' gets thrown around far too much these days!

Haven't heard anything like the above about their b series shafts?

Just going from my own personal experience mate...I've read quite a few bad reviews on various forums about the quality of their stuff.

As above if it all comes over from China and they can afford to sell it at the prices they do and still make money you've got to question the quality of materials used. You never know I may have gotten unlucky but as I say going on what happened to mine in the time it was on the car and what I've heard elsewhere I wouldn't recommend them to anyone. I can't see any reason why the b series ones would be any better but that's just my opinion.

Had a set of them in my eg for a few months with no problems. There still like new, did a full day drag racing on them with road tyres, rally slicks and proper drag slicks so that would have been putting a bit of stress on them doing burnouts but no issues.

I've has a few sets on various Civics, no problems at all. Done track/drag days on them and had them on my 380bhp b18 turbo EK and use their CV's on all my K swap cars.