I have seen a couple bent in a crash, nothing a vise and some bending wouldnt fix though.

Thats why i was thinking it was a bad batch.

You should never ever get a "bad batch" of metal. Its nearly impossible to buy metals without certification, and I doubt the do this. So either its a bad batch and you can simply sue the metal manufacture for false certification and easily win.....or you crashed the truck. Doesnt matter if you think it was a bad crash, it was obviously bad enough to bend parts. Parts bend when they are pushed beyond the limits and thats it. If you dont think it should have bent, then the part wasnt properly engineered for your application.

Well here is an image.
http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/atta...8&d=1123462736

man what did you hit to do that.

that was a serious hit, no little tumble did that one.

I was driving around and a tree jumped in front me. I was cruising along nicely.
I think 18 cells on it at time to. So alot of weight helped. As you can see
the straps didn't hold either. They didn't break though.

wow that tree must have jumped out at you pretty fast for you not to be able to dodge it.

Trees seem faster at times than others. :D
It was one of them last minute jump out in front to. :D

haha man those trees are fast up here they are quite a bit slower on the jumping in front of you part but i bet they will get better at it when i get a faster car(comming soon). hehe

lol and once you get the dodging trees down good other things pop out more often cars, kids, and brick walls

Kids are the worst!

They cost you more than the truck! ;)

kids man if you hit one of those it is not like a tree where the tree wins and you carry your car back to your house to acess the damage, if you hit a kid you damage the kid, get nasty looks from the neighbors, damage your car, feel bad, and many more things i will take hitting a tree anyday over a kid.

Plus, possibly having to clean all that blood off your body/suspension! .. EW.

And the millions of dollars the kid's parents win off you in court...ouch...