Toytec.. and My Pretty Much Catastrophic Shock Failure x2

[violation]

I kind of thought the different manufacturers were categorized like this:

1) King - High speed desert running
2) OME - Heavy load slow speed off roading
3) Bilstein - Standard load slow speed off roading
4) Toytec - Show n' shine cruising






:hat:

Agreed

well shit, i clearly bought the wrong stuff lol

where would you put Fox, Icon, Dobinson and Sonoran Steel? (or are Dob and SS too small to really have a niche on your chart?)

 

[violation]

UPDATE 1
Toytec has responded to my last email (of 7 days ago) within a day of posting this thread. Coincidence? I will let you decide. But the sales rep says they still want me to be a satisfied customer and I'm guessing communication will continue, which is nice.

I should also say at this point that I've always been happy with Toytec's customer service and their quick responses, from initial purchase when I had a billion questions for them, through the front shock failure and up until now, with the exception of the recent radio silence.

 

[mailbox]

yikes, for the cost of kits they sell i'd rather just buy something else.

save up for kings

 

[MAST4R]

well shit, i clearly bought the wrong stuff lol

where would you put Fox, Dobinson and Sonoran Steel? (or are Dob and SS too small to really have a niche on your chart?)

Dobinsons is pretty much the main rival of OME in terms of coils and shocks. I am fine with them. Australia has some absolutely brutal tracks, nothing hard in US sense, just hundreds of miles of terrible corrugations that can destroy suspensions. I do like Australian expertise for that reason.

Sonoran Steel, from what I have seen offer a Billstein 5100 based setup with some sort of coil that looks unusual.

I wonder how much your spacers are to blame.

Personally, I like to either understand something or follow someone that is supposed to understand something. So, I would say a reputable enough, bigger name maker that offers complete upgrades: no spacers, no mix-and-match. Then you will have to see which ones actually last a little between rebuilds.

 

[violation]

Personally, I like to either understand something or follow someone that is supposed to understand something. So, I would say a reputable enough, bigger name maker that offers complete upgrades: no spacers, no mix-and-match. Then you will have to see which ones actually last a little between rebuilds.

I'm the same way, and thought I was doing so - but hindsight is 20/20 and you see all your mistakes when it's too late lol.

For example, I went with 4xInnovations armor because they've been around for a while and even had feedback on their armor from 4runners that got in pretty bad on-road accidents. Most everything I go with big-name products that have been on the road for a while. But even if I do it 90% of the time, it's that 10% that'll bite me.

 

[4-Ripcord]

In the end, there's no replacement for size. Shaft size that is.

This is the reason the high end coilovers (fox/king/etc) Use much thicker shafts on their shocks.


Toytec makes great value stuff for what 90% of offroaders/daily drivers need. But the more "adventurous" out there need stronger stuff. This is far from the 1st toytec shaft break I have seen because they were put through some circumstances that they just weren't designed for which accelerated a failure.

 

[Fern]

In the end, there's no replacement for size. Shaft size that is.

That's a pretty good sig line right thar.

 

[4-Ripcord]

:lol:

 

[kelkins]

That’s one of the worst shock failures I have ever seen.

 

[T4R_KAI]

I kind of thought the different manufacturers were categorized like this:

1) King - High speed desert running
2) OME - Heavy load slow speed off roading
3) Bilstein - Standard load slow speed off roading
4) Toytec - Show n' shine cruising






:hat:

Kings all day. Buy once, cry once.