Bent 'bent pictures

What are the chances of the problem being more down to poor frame design
rather than faulty materials? In other words, is it likely to happen
again? Has it happened to other Optima owners already?

Good luck.

~PB

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:44:24 +0100, "Pete Biggs"
wrote:

What are the chances of the problem being more down to poor frame design
rather than faulty materials? In other words, is it likely to happen
again? Has it happened to other Optima owners already?

Hard to say. From what I can gather there was an issue with Barons,
which has been addressed, but I haven't heard of any other Stinger
owners being affected. Mine is number 198, not sure what number
Anders has, but I was early in the production run for sure.

Guy
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 10:41:46 +0100, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
wrote:

"Needless to say that we are very alarmed about it [...] This
incidence has alarmed us no end, as there could be a problem with
faulty materials which are supplied to us.

Materials ? That looks awfully like post-weld heat treatment going
wrong.

It's a bad design anyway, putting a weld of that size right on the
outer curve of the tube.