Re: Good to excellent experience

[rusmaster <rusmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrew,    I agree, thats why my experience hasn't been the best.  But, Dinan
did make a good faith effort to fix it.  It held for a long time after the third
fix after lots of hard use(track, street and auto-x).  Then it snapped agian.
During this time I've been increasing the cornnering and hp of the car.  The E28s
are notorious for this SB brakcket breaking and all tunners have to deal with
it(at least thats the feedback I've recieved from other E28 owners).  These cars
are not specifically made for the type of hard use I'm subjecting it to,  so I
expect suspension pieces  to  fail from time to time.  Since I do so much track
and hard street use, the SB mount and where it's positioned is really tough to get
mounted to withstand the forces I'm subjecting it to.  I wouldn't expect any
tunner to give really long warranties against near race conditions.  In fact, I
had my E28 535iS up around 5k RPM for almost 20 straight minutes last night dicing
it up with a Mustang Cobra on the way home from work.  There was some serious
cornnering goin on at high speed.  I was able to catch him in corners, but
straights I was done.
    I would say your comments would be true if my rig was being operated under
normal condition.  But it's not.  The way I use it, things will break from time to
time.

Take Care,
Russ

Oh, it's been happening over the past 8 years.


> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:25:33 -0500
> From: "Andrew D.Mendez" <AMENDEZ@domain.elided>
> Subject: good to excellent experience
>
> Five tries to get it right constitues a "good to
> excellent" experience? If a dry cleaner breaks one
> button on a suit I find a better one. What would
> "average to poor" involve - the car falling apart
> on the way home?
>
> I'm not a suspension expert but it doesn't take a
> rocket scientist to engineer something that won't
> break 5 five times in a few years. If it's an OE
> part failing (unclear from your post), the
> modifications are causing it so still modifier's
> fault. (I can see this if you're driving the Baja
> 500). I wish my clients were as forgiving as you.
>
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 08:18:32 -0700
> From: rusmaster <rusmaster@domain.elided>
> Subject: Re: Dinan Not
> [snip]
> Agian, my experience [with Dinan] has been good to
> excellant
> as far back as '90 when I had the Stg. IV
> suspension installed by Dinan.  Here the rear sway
> bar mounts broke 3 times in 2 years, and
> each time Dinan re-engineered the bracket to fix
> the problem at no charge while the car was still
> under factory warranty.  It's broke
> twice more since then and was fixed at a cost.
>

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