mancini tube upper control arm failure....

abodyjoe said

if ya look at what the guy says, the arms were bought in december of 2008, it is now may 2009. thats not even 6 months. and on top of that from what i understand the car is from the detroit area. so in reality how much could use could those arms actually of gotten? not too much in my opinion.

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I agree, its unlikely they got much use. But it only takes one event to damage the part. Hit a curb, bounce the car after a hard launch, even a big pothole (none of those in Detroit right?) could cause a failure of correctly built aftermarket parts or even stockers. In SoCal while they were repairing I5 Caltrans left a really big step off at a few overpasses, they ground down the asphalt for paving and obviously left the concrete under the overpasses. I must have seen a dozen cars on the side of the road with busted suspension, so it can happen!

I personally think a crappy weld is much more likely, but there are a lot of ways to break stuff. I'm still planning on keeping a very close eye on my CAP UCA's.