plastic on FOA bump stops

patooyee · Mar 9, 2014

So after the first couple of rides when the POS plastic on the POS FOA bump stops falls out what do you do? Just let them hit the POS aluminum pad that the POS plastic was originally lightly held in by?

Dynamite Design · Mar 9, 2014

Hahaha, awesome post :****:

tiny · Mar 9, 2014

Take the pos product off your pos rig. Buy quality product. Install quality product. Now you don't have a rig with **** falling off of it. Congrats.

patooyee · Mar 9, 2014

Already did that with the POS FOA shocks. Can't afford to do it with my bumps at the moment. Is there a band air for now? Letting the axle hit the aluminum doesn't seem to be hurting anything that I am aware of other than I can hear it happening.

crawlin85cj · Mar 9, 2014

Throw the junk in the trash and resume happiness.

Or...attach a piece of UHMW to your bump stop landing pad for the aluminum to contact so it's not metal on metal. You will have better luck with that than trying to get anything FOA to function worth a ****.

85toyo · Mar 9, 2014

crawlin85cj said:
Throw the junk in the trash and resume happiness.

Or...attach a piece of UHMW to your bump stop landing pad for the aluminum to contact so it's not metal on metal. You will have better luck with that than trying to get anything FOA to function worth a ****.

That's what I was thinking also. You could probably use some epoxy to keep it on until you get some better bumps.

85toyo · Mar 9, 2014

What about rolling on some of the cheap DIY bed liner on the bump pads? If you don't have any UHMW laying around this would probably be easier and cheaper.

patooyee · Mar 9, 2014

I have UHMW but I think the aluminum would just tear it up quickly.

I think I'll just let it ride for now. Maybe by the time the bumps get too tore up to use anymore I'll have some money to buy some real ones.

SomewhiteGuy · Mar 9, 2014

I know this is gonna sound dumb but why not call chris or jd and have them send you out a new piece?

patooyee · Mar 9, 2014

They're well past their warranty and even if they weren't I was done playing that game with them after my 3rd set of shocks and bumps still leaked. I am happy to say that I will never deal with FOA ever again. I would run no bumps or buy new bumps before I dealt with them again.

In all fairness, I don't think this is a result of defective product. I think it is defective design. It would happen again and again because the plastic is just formed into a small groove on the pad and getting nailed by the weight of the buggy repeatedly just deforms them and causes them to fall out quickly. New pads would just do it again.

FM5332FF · Mar 10, 2014

The best thing that I did with my foa coilovers was sell them.

GIZMO1 · Mar 10, 2014

Just borrow the set off of NWFLYJ,s rig. He wont be needing them for a few more years anyway.

TN-CTD · Mar 10, 2014

I'll tell you how I fixed me FOA stuff, I took it off and replaced that crap

TN-CTD · Mar 10, 2014

patooyee said:
They're well past their warranty and even if they weren't I was done playing that game with them after my 3rd set of shocks and bumps still leaked. I am happy to say that I will never deal with FOA ever again. I would run no bumps or buy new bumps before I dealt with them again.

In all fairness, I don't think this is a result of defective product. I think it is defective design. It would happen again and again because the plastic is just formed into a small groove on the pad and getting nailed by the weight of the buggy repeatedly just deforms them and causes them to fall out quickly. New pads would just do it again.

I learned this on first set of shocks and bumps on the rig that I bought, quickly switch. I knew why the guy I bought it from gave me a shock charging kit!