Hey guys,
I am hoping this is the right place to put this.
My Watts Link failed last night on my drive home from work. Sitting in traffic, I took a right hand turn and heard a very loud roaring and grinding sound.
Then when I took the next left at around 15 miles an hour the rear started wobbling pretty bad. I immediately stopped and pulled over. Luckily this all happened about a block from my house and I was able to make it home driving about 10 mph and making the 2 required turns at about 2 mph.
I expected that a bolt had backed out, or that something was not torqued down well enough. It was already dark so I was not able to check what the problem was until today.
I jacked up the car and crawled under to take a look and this is what I found.
So the top arm attachment point had completely failed. The bolt is still strongly in place. All the other bolts were still strongly in place.
I am going to contact Whiteline about the issue.
I am posting here because I am interested in whether any of you guys have had similar issues with this particular part. I am worried about this happening again going down a mountain road at speed, or at the track going 90mph around a turn.
This is not exactly confidence inspiring. I know there are always defects in the manufacturing process but the way that the pivot sleeves are attached does not seem very robust.
By the way the second half of the bushing is still in the arm, in case anyone is wondering.
I am hoping this is the right place to put this.
My Watts Link failed last night on my drive home from work. Sitting in traffic, I took a right hand turn and heard a very loud roaring and grinding sound.
Then when I took the next left at around 15 miles an hour the rear started wobbling pretty bad. I immediately stopped and pulled over. Luckily this all happened about a block from my house and I was able to make it home driving about 10 mph and making the 2 required turns at about 2 mph.
I expected that a bolt had backed out, or that something was not torqued down well enough. It was already dark so I was not able to check what the problem was until today.
I jacked up the car and crawled under to take a look and this is what I found.
So the top arm attachment point had completely failed. The bolt is still strongly in place. All the other bolts were still strongly in place.
I am going to contact Whiteline about the issue.
I am posting here because I am interested in whether any of you guys have had similar issues with this particular part. I am worried about this happening again going down a mountain road at speed, or at the track going 90mph around a turn.
This is not exactly confidence inspiring. I know there are always defects in the manufacturing process but the way that the pivot sleeves are attached does not seem very robust.
By the way the second half of the bushing is still in the arm, in case anyone is wondering.