We do the best we can to build the best product we can. With the background and reseach we have been through we believe we are building the parts the best way we know how. Because the parts are made by hand they are subject to human error. A little over a year ago a new welder was hired at Labree and When the new welder started he was a little carried away with grinding back the welds too far. We have had a small hand full of down pipes fail that were built when the new welder started. Your test pipes fall into this same time frame and are subject to this same human error.
As soon as we had one set of pipes fail we took measures to insure this would not happen in the future. The flanges are now beveled to insure a larger weld area and the pipes are all measured before and after to be sure they are not ground back too far.
We can only learn from the past and make things better in the future. I have pipes welded this same way without the bevel that have been on my own car for over 10 years now with no problems.
If anyone has a problem please contact us as we will be more then happy to make it right.