Well that is not good. - Page 3

Neil1 · 10th April 2018, 12:10

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Originally Posted by spyder

How does this even happen??

Metal fatigue caused by bodged repairs in the past, maybe.

It can be repaired but it's going to take a fair amount of work.

How are you at welding?

roverbarmy · 10th April 2018, 12:13

The last time I saw that was recovering a Zephyr V6 from the middle of a roundabout that it didn't go round!!!

Typhoon190 · 10th April 2018, 19:51

It'll be all the potholes!!!

spyder · 10th April 2018, 22:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neil1

Metal fatigue caused by bodged repairs in the past, maybe.

It can be repaired but it's going to take a fair amount of work.

How are you at welding?

Quite good at welding but fortunately not mine. Copied it from a petrolheads group.

It is apparently a Cayman and a reasonably common problem if one researches it. This one had just hit a pot hole.

others from racing and speed bumps, taken literally.

Sprinter · 11th April 2018, 09:50

I think I know the culprit.

Neil1 · 11th April 2018, 10:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by spyder

Quite good at welding but fortunately not mine. Copied it from a petrolheads group.

It is apparently a Cayman and a reasonably common problem if one researches it. This one had just hit a pot hole.

others from racing and speed bumps, taken literally.

A Cayman, that is not good!
You would think being a Porsche this wouldn't happen.

Some of the potholes we have down here in Newton Abbot are horrendous, some are huge craters, I do try my best to avoid them but sometimes you do catch them.

impvan · 11th April 2018, 21:17

It's what happens when you fit lowering springs, without dealing with the shocks/struts at the same time. The perils of having a MaxPower magazine, a credit card, and no knowledge.

Instead of the strut piston operating in the middle of the strut length (as designed), with lowering springs the strut piston is operating at one end of the travel, and bottoms-out. That strut-top just looks like it's been fatigue hammered.

The failure mode I've seen before is with rear struts, which bottom-out and stick there, the poor lad's Polo going along the road like a wormy dog on the axminster.

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impvan Avid contributor ZT-T Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: In the trees, near Caernarfon... and frequently Aberdeenshire, and sometimes Romania.. Posts: 143 Thanks: 5 Thanked 36 Times in 29 Posts	It's what happens when you fit lowering springs, without dealing with the shocks/struts at the same time. The perils of having a MaxPower magazine, a credit card, and no knowledge. Instead of the strut piston operating in the middle of the strut length (as designed), with lowering springs the strut piston is operating at one end of the travel, and bottoms-out. That strut-top just looks like it's been fatigue hammered. The failure mode I've seen before is with rear struts, which bottom-out and stick there, the poor lad's Polo going along the road like a wormy dog on the axminster.