World Suspension ball joints catastrophic FAILURE

These ball joints were ordered in November, 2010 and installed December, 2010.
In January, 2011. I noticed a real bad clicking sound. Upon inspection of the suspension, I found the CV Boot was torn and suspected that the noise was from a failed CV shaft. So I replaced the half shaft. It did not solve the problem. At the end of January, 2011 the clicking sound become a very bad knocking sound. I inspected the suspension and found this.

The ball joint seemed to have collapsed in on itself. The fail safe C-clip did not hold AT ALL. and the ball joint was hanging on by the nut. Had the ball of the joint actually come out of the cup, there would be NOTHING holding the bottom of the wheel to the car. This would have resulted in a SERIOUS accident and potential loss of life. World Suspension would not respond to my emails.

DO NOT BUY WORLD SUSPENSION SUSPENSION PRODUCTS!!!!!!

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Autos & Vehicles

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• World Suspension
• DSM
• ball joint
• balljoint
• failed
• death
• accident

[laserspeeddemon]

I looked into the company before I ordered from them, they are American operated. I didn't know the sold Chinese junk. When I contacted them about this the completely ignored my emails.

It seems they don't care if you die buying their inferior products as long as they make money.

[silverbird58]

ok boys even if you PRESS fit these parts or bolt them in ,. GRAB A WIRE WELDED AND TACK THEM IN. DONT BURN them on heavy just a few solid tacks.

[hpspeedster]

Anyone have any negative experiences with MevoTec? They are a Canadian company,but all items are Taiwan or Israel sourced.

[doublec4]

You're not the only one. I just had one fail on me that I bought from them.

What happened was that the castle nut wasn't tall enough, or the hole drilled for the cotter pin was too high. This allowed the castle nut to back off. The ball joint was then free to back out a little bit and rock in the spindle. Eventually this broke off the castle nut and the ball joint completely fell out. Junk.

We need to stop buying Chinese garbage.

[darigaaz06]

wow, im a mechanic and have never seen a ball joint that. you are very lucky indeed.