RCE T2/KW rears leaking on welds?

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untitled

Discussion Starter · Aug 24, 2013 (Edited)

My rear camber bolts slipped and I noticed both rears were leaking. I pulled them immediately and put the stock suspension back on. I was going to have them rebuilt by a local company however when disassembling and cleaning them I discovered they were leaking from welds on the side on each strut.

The welds in question are circled. They have never been involved in a wreck only daily driving and autocross.

Has anyone seen this before and are they still serviceable?

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H&K

· #2 · Aug 25, 2013

Call Myles at race comp he will get it sorted out also I think the tarmac 2s have a limited lifetime warranty.

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JPotter

· #3 · Aug 25, 2013

Yea - lifetime against all leaks free rebuilds through KW (just got mine done over last winter) I'd have to imagine that the welds are covered also.... EDIT: deleted sentence, misread OP.

But yea call Myles and see what he thinks - you have to call Racecomp anyway to start the rebuild process.

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lucid

· #4 · Aug 28, 2013

JPotter said:
Yea - lifetime against all leaks free rebuilds through KW (just got mine done over last winter) I'd have to imagine that the welds are covered also.... EDIT: deleted sentence, misread OP.

But yea call Myles and see what he thinks - you have to call Racecomp anyway to start the rebuild process.

The rebuilds were free for you? I thought it was $250 a corner?

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JPotter

· #5 · Aug 28, 2013 (Edited)

lucid said:
The rebuilds were free for you? I thought it was $250 a corner?

Well - yes/no. From what I was told, by RCE last year - they no longer offer regular paid rebuilds (at least on the GD version of the T2's). But they still honor the lifetime warranty on the T2's.

So... if you have a problem; it still gets fixed for free. But you can no longer pay them to get them rebuilt unless there is an issue.... make sense?

Yes, mine got fixed for free; but I did end up paying like $50 to ship them to Cali.

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untitled

Discussion Starter · #6 · Aug 29, 2013

lucid said:
The rebuilds were free for you? I thought it was $250 a corner?

Working on sending mine in for rebuild but if it comes up to $250 a corner I'm dumping them.

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SolidSTI

· #7 · Nov 4, 2013

I currently have this issue, but I sold my TCE T0 to buy T2s. Used T2's do not have a warranty and it has been a pain to get them fixed.

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untitled

Discussion Starter · #8 · Nov 19, 2013

SolidSTI said:
I currently have this issue, but I sold my TCE T0 to buy T2s. Used T2's do not have a warranty and it has been a pain to get them fixed.

They want $660 to repair them both. Still on the fence about it, its just a bit more than I planned to budget for.