Originally Posted by
+Waldo+
ugh chris always gotta rain on my parade. they should hold up better then the oem ones i have right now with almost 200k on them. that article could be just like what happened to chome though with his tiens, and we all know they are legit.
if your company opperates at a 99% efficiency rate, but produces 100,000 items, that still leaves 1000 to have problems. ill just hope mine are some of the good ones haha. also have another new goodie on the way. gotta start searching for tires soon too
Yeah sorry. That thread was 2 years old, and they might have addressed this already. The Tein's are physically a different design, and can't fail this way. The Wicked part could be fixed with a better rod end.
And really, I hate to pick on you even more, but your example makes absolutely no sense. Assembly and failure are things that go into all of my designs at work. "Efficiency Rate" is nothing I've ever heard of; that's failure rate you're thinking of. There is this thing called "testing" and "diagnostics" and "inspections" that prevent things from leaving the factory with problems. 99% is a good initial pass rate... but those failed units go back to be fixed or scrapped. 100% of items that leave a factory are (should be) free of defects. But that doesn't get to the root of the issue with the tierod... poor design.