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Originally Posted by ixfxi
I dont understand it. Why is SPL considered expensive? Expensive compared to what, e-bay parts? SPL is reasonably priced for what it is. Try to make any of the parts on their site and see how much it costs you. Take stock arms, buy nismo and have them pressed in and tell me how much it costs.
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Because SPL parts
are expensive. Expensive compared to many of the common brands offering the same kinds of parts. Granted the prices are reasonable given that SPL goes to hell and back to offer the best parts possible.
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Originally Posted by ixfxi
Without doing much thought and engineering, it appears that this is something manufacturers SHOULD look into doing. Unfortunately, it eats away at the modern mentality of shit not being serviceable and instead, replaceable. Very unfortunate.
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They should look into this. But in the meantime, $20 to replace joints is incredibly affordable.
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Any manufacturer could and should be held responsible for the parts they offer. Thats not the point though. The point here is, doing the due diligence here and determining the reason for how and why an product failed.
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I'm not saying they aren't responsible for the quality of their part, because they are. I'm saying that SPL can't be held responsible for improper installation causing failure due to stresses that it wasn't designed to handle.
Although I can't be 100% sure the part was installed wrong, I can only assume it was installed wrong because of SPL's outstanding track record, precision manufacturing processes, & quality assurance and quality control standards.
SPL is second to none in those regards, period.