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Tein's New Two Piece Coilover Design!

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Old Jun 28, 2009 | 07:29 PM
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Default Tein's New Two Piece Coilover Design!

Well as I was driving home today my driver's side front coilover snapped in two pieces. Right behind the weld on both sides it completely disembarks and I see even more cracks on the coilover itself. Its the Tein Flex and have been on the car since I bought it new in 2007. They have 14k on them and this is what happens.

Any advice on what I should do from here or what I should explain to Tein to try and get this resolved?












If anyone local has stock struts/springs or anything that I can ride on until I can get this resolved it would be much appreciated. If you don't need them, I might buy them from you. Thanks for any help
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Old Jun 29, 2009 | 04:38 AM
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lol, love the last pic
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Old Jun 29, 2009 | 05:56 AM
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Originally Posted by chomedrifter
Any advice on what I should do from here
Don't ever buy Tein garbage and you will be fine
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Old Jun 29, 2009 | 10:10 AM
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what he said^

they'll probably charge you for a new one. depending on how much it costs, you might just buy a new one and then sell them all. thats what I did when mine broke.
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Old Jun 29, 2009 | 10:11 AM
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I have four brand new Tein Flex with the new design coming my way!
About to send in the old.
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Old Jun 29, 2009 | 03:59 PM
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dayum thats some shit, im glad they took care of you
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Old Jun 30, 2009 | 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by ShockerGT
Don't ever buy Tein garbage and you will be fine
Is that the general concensus about Tein product around here? I know that there are many Suby's riding around with the Tein Flex product out there. This is the second failure I read about this month (other was from the Forester forums)
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Old Jun 30, 2009 | 12:50 PM
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Damn that sucks!
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Old Jun 30, 2009 | 08:37 PM
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oly chit mang
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Old Jul 1, 2009 | 04:15 PM
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Glad to see it's worked out.
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