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Suspension Attention!!! Failure Inside
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<blockquote data-quote="Tob" data-source="post: 13176165" data-attributes="member: 83412"><p>How utterly sad that the above has become the mindset.</p><p></p><p>WL should be lauded (if anything) for at least addressing the failure in a public forum which we all know can be a PR disaster if not handled in a delicate, professional manner. As stated, we have yet to see the particulars on the failed UCA. Sure we'd love to know how much power the car had, tires used, road/strip conditions, the rest of the driveline and suspension components, etc, but we don't yet.</p><p></p><p>Irksome that many jump straight to mention of the legal system and of the horrendous implications. Loss of human life! Pain and suffering! The war on women! Kittens left out in the cold! Seriously, lets not invoke and thus invite yet another bureaucracy to impose even more regulation upon our favorite pastime. </p><p></p><p>Visual verification is cursory at best. <em>Looks</em> like a HAZ/insufficient material failure to me. Can the issue be mitigated by substituting a stronger steel plate? Should WL's welding process/technique be reviewed and improved? Was their product testing somehow flawed? Hopefully WL is open and honest about everything they do to make the product better - post failure. Lord knows that just about every aftermarket company out there has suffered from similar issues. For example...</p><p></p><p>BMR has dealt with 'bad batches' of poly bushings in the past...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]475001[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>They've had good bushings squirm and exit...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]475002[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>They've also had quite a bit of success and have enabled quite a few to dial in their geometry with precision. So they're not perfect either. Above all, at least their arms/brackets are designed to be robust, probably more so than most others in the game. And based purely on design, I'd expect WL's arm end to take a pounding where it failed as much as WL appears to have been satisfied with it. But an outright disaster? I'd leave that to this one, from a few months ago...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]475003[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]475004[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Suffice it to say, the importance lies in how WL handles the issue as we move forward. Are they going to chalk it up to a one time 'freak' and isolated incident or is a redesign pending? At this point their biggest issue will be one of consumer confidence. Suspension failures spread across the community like wildfire and hopefully the attempt they make at instilling or restoring it is successful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tob, post: 13176165, member: 83412"] How utterly sad that the above has become the mindset. WL should be lauded (if anything) for at least addressing the failure in a public forum which we all know can be a PR disaster if not handled in a delicate, professional manner. As stated, we have yet to see the particulars on the failed UCA. Sure we'd love to know how much power the car had, tires used, road/strip conditions, the rest of the driveline and suspension components, etc, but we don't yet. Irksome that many jump straight to mention of the legal system and of the horrendous implications. Loss of human life! Pain and suffering! The war on women! Kittens left out in the cold! Seriously, lets not invoke and thus invite yet another bureaucracy to impose even more regulation upon our favorite pastime. Visual verification is cursory at best. [I]Looks[/I] like a HAZ/insufficient material failure to me. Can the issue be mitigated by substituting a stronger steel plate? Should WL's welding process/technique be reviewed and improved? Was their product testing somehow flawed? Hopefully WL is open and honest about everything they do to make the product better - post failure. Lord knows that just about every aftermarket company out there has suffered from similar issues. For example... BMR has dealt with 'bad batches' of poly bushings in the past... [ATTACH=full]475001[/ATTACH] They've had good bushings squirm and exit... [ATTACH=full]475002[/ATTACH] They've also had quite a bit of success and have enabled quite a few to dial in their geometry with precision. So they're not perfect either. Above all, at least their arms/brackets are designed to be robust, probably more so than most others in the game. And based purely on design, I'd expect WL's arm end to take a pounding where it failed as much as WL appears to have been satisfied with it. But an outright disaster? I'd leave that to this one, from a few months ago... [ATTACH=full]475003[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475004[/ATTACH] Suffice it to say, the importance lies in how WL handles the issue as we move forward. Are they going to chalk it up to a one time 'freak' and isolated incident or is a redesign pending? At this point their biggest issue will be one of consumer confidence. Suspension failures spread across the community like wildfire and hopefully the attempt they make at instilling or restoring it is successful. [/QUOTE]
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