Tuesday, Nov 17, 2015 at 21:31
Yes, that thought had crossed my mind.
I'm reasonably familiar with the engineering of these things, owning a Karavan myself. (The broken one in the OP's photo is actually a Kruiser, the Karavan's big brother). Karavan, Kruiser and Kamper share similar
suspension concepts.
Design-wise, I'm sure the chassis is
well sorted. IMO something has slipped through QC before it got hidden by production processes - bad welds undetected before galvanising, or something like that, perhaps.
Interesting thing on ABC TV tonight, talking about imported Chinese steel with a high boron content that adversely affects welds. If you know about it, no problem, you can compensate. If you don't, which is often the case in imported raw materials, either the welds or the material adjacent to the weld fails. Interesting.
All we can do is speculate, which is of little help.
Cheers
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