Broken Air Ride spindle

[AccuAir]

Way to go Bret and Brent! As a relatively young manufacturer in the industry (29), you guys have set a very valuable example on how to properly handle a "delicate" situation like this. You have also set a precedent toward providing higher quality products through real world punishment in front of everyone (even the magazine editors =). I think that if every aftermarket manufacturer were to publicly punish their products and display it for the world to see, the results would be ugly. Infact, if the big 3 auto manufacturers made their failures as public as you guys do, we may all be riding bicycles right now.

Having an ME degree, I was immediately thirsty for details when I heard of the failure. I was impressed to read this thread and see Brent providing some real failure analysis backed by real numbers. I think that anyone who owns these spindles should feel better knowing that this wasn't a random manufacturing defect that could pop up on some percentage of parts. This was a general design/manufacturing issue that has been 100% resolved.



On a general note, a 63 year old friend of mine has one of the nicest '32 Roadsters on the planet (if you're into that kinda thing =) He built the car himself and made a permanent compartment in the trunk with mounting provisions for spare parts (distributor, carb parts, hand tools etc). Obviosly, he has been left on the side of the road by each of these parts at some point in his life. I would like to think that we are creating a new era for aftermarket parts, where reliability is paramount. Forums like these with threads like these make me think that we are headed in the right direction.