Have been seeing a number of posts / photos on other media with cracks developing in AEV front control arm drop brackets. If your running them, would seem like a good idea to check that yours are OK.
Loosing a control arm would make for a very "interesting" experience.
There are also other brands available ( no problems seen ) but probably a good idea to check them all regardless of brand.
I've also seen one case of the OE chassis mounts cracking when drop brackets are fitted but that particular vehicle had a hard knock so....
Anyway...... I'd be checking.
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It seemed like a good idea at the time........
Just had a look at mine. All ok. No visible cracks on any of them. But then, I haven't been offroad in a while & never really did a lot of hard core rock crawling or high speed offroad driving.
My battery, (Optima d34 yellow top), on the griping hand looks like it may be dying... *sigh* 12.1V.
Thanks for the heads up.
Got 64Km's on mine and appear OK but will have a closer inspection.
Got a spare set of drop brackets sent from AEV because some of the powder coating flaked off after the 2.5" install, so will hang onto them just in case.
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Front Control Arm Drop Brackets
