Sheared off lower ball joint

[Kenm4187]

Originally Posted by D-CEL

Ken,

Like everybody here, I’m sorry for your failure, and happy that you were not hurt. I am a VP at a destructive testing laboratory in SoCal. While it is interesting to guess at the cause of the failure, it cannot be determined by looking at photographs. And to suggest that and entire lot of parts is suspect is unfair. Investigate: yes, accuse, no.
With that said, I would be happy to perform a failure analysis on the suspect parts, free of charge. If you are interested, email me and we will set it up.

Let’s hold judgment and comment until we have a clearer picture on what has happened.

Jason
jasonw@metalstec.com

Jason,

My intent is to find out what happened. I do agree it is harder to determine what happened just from pictures.

First I wanted to find out if this happened to anyone else or if was just an isolated issue. From the info I have gotten back it seems very rare.

Second, I never suggested that the whole batch was bad or this was a wide scale issue. Those comments were made by others. I just did not want to see this happen to anyone else.

As soon as I know I don't need to hold on to the part any longer. I would like to take you up on your offer to help determine what happened.

My car is just over a month out of warranty and I am not sure what will happen with the insurance company as I was auto-crossing. If it is not needed by one of them I will send it to you. I do want to thank you for your offer, it was very nice of you. I am sure everyone would like to know the cause.


Thanks,

Kenm2560