Round 2 - broken car!

[Hurdy]

"Holy sh!t - what was that?"

Huge loud bang from under the car!

I went around a left turn corner at a junction - 10mph, no potholes, no hard braking or accelerating.

Then after that - bang, clank, bang, rattle, clank, bang

Got back to the house and looked under the car thinking a suspension link had gone somewhere and found this:-



 

The bracket for the front ARB has snapped at one side and now the car is garaged till I can get hold of a spare.

I've only had the ARB's fitted in May and so they have only been on the car for about 5 months.

I'll be phoning JBS to see what they can do for me on Monday

[182_blue]

Ouch, your not having much look mate, hope it gets sorted

[T88OMM]

Sorry to hear this John, there seems to be a spate of ED's going wrong at the moment!! Hope mine doesn't catch the diesease!!  

[bacillus]

Hope that you get sorted asap mate.

[Greenouse]

Blimey! You can't be happy about that! That's a bit shoddy after only a few months 

[Rhyso]

gutted

 

[Hurdy]

Blimey! You can't be happy about that! That's a bit shoddy after only a few months 

Pretty p1ssed of TBH.

I'm thinking I might ask for both brackets to be replaced as the other one will have been overstressed too and could be part of a dodgy batch

Has anyone else ever known an aftermarket ARB bracket to fail like that?

[Komenda]

Considering the loads that they take I would tink they make them out of granite.

I would ask that it be checked by the manufacturer as it could be a dodgy batch with a fault running through them, who knows how many people could have these just waiting to break.

[Hurdy]

Oooh, Went over to another forum :embarassed: and found JBS sales posting and realised they must work today. Phoned up and after a little explaination they are ordering two new brackets and fitting them for me. Top service again

Now all I have to do is convince myself that the original bracket was faulty!

[SteveS]

scary!!!