X6 Chassis problems.

[gordy]

I bought my X6 a couple of weeks ago, along with Rich Davis, we've both nticed today that both the cars have cracked chassis's. They've cracked where the rear most front kick up plate screws thread differectly into the chassis, infront of the servo post, parallel to where the bolts go through. Both cars have identical damage.
Just wondered if anyone else has suffered this problem, or whether we've got a couple of freak chassis's. I can understand them cracking if we hadn't tapped the holes - but we have.
cheers

[bigred5765]

never had a problem with that area, is there any chance you might have over tightened the screws and spread the holes

[Doomanic]

Can you post a picture of the damage?

[YoungChazz]

We have experienced the occasional breakage here, sometimes on initial assembly. We think the hole may be slightly undersized, and will address this in the next production run.

Amazingly, it seems not to matter, and those with the problem successfully run their cars for long periods crack and all. See the forum at www.2wdrc.com

If your car is broken beyond use, see the dealer who sold it and, assuming he has a #1001 chassis in stock, he should replace it. We will in turn replace the part for him at no charge.

If your car seems tight and will run, please run it; the threaded insert does most of the work and you should be fine. As I said above, about 10% of the chassies have this problem and we have yet to see one that does not perform well anyway. Probably over-engineered...

[GRIFF55]

I saw the damage to the chassis yesterday an it does look like the holes are undersized. Don't know if they have been like this from building but i'm sure Gordy will say. Have to say that the cars did look good there

[gordy]

Can't put pic up at the moment. Camera battery flat. Glad to hear it's not just ours that have done it. I said to Rich exactly what Chaz has just said, there's so much meat around the base of the chassis, that I doubt it will cause a problem atall. I was just curious to see whether anyone else had the problem.
The car's great - just got to learnn how to drive it properly! It drives so different from a normal 2wd.