If you own a Rigid Co rear tire carrier, go out to your jeep now and inspect the welds on the tire carrier. I had some crazy noises in the rear of my jeep for the past few days and I finally tracked them down to the tire carrier when I had to open up the liftgate. The support arm welds cracked as well as one of the main gusset welds. I have a BFG 35x12.50 on there, so it is pretty heavy, although, I haven't been offroad since I installed it, so it only took road abuse to crack these welds. Just be careful and check them before you loose a heavy tire on the road. I sent these pictures to Terry, and hopefully this is an isolated incident, but make sure your jeep is safe.
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For all you Rigid Co people, look here.
- Thread starter 53guy
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mack
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- gone fishin....
Hmmmm...
lazyxj
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- Los Angeles
Looks like the piece was tacked on and never completely welded.
ruggedjeep
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- Location
- Sherman Oaks
Thanks for the heads up, Ill go check mine right now.
creeperjeep
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- Cape Cawd
penetration
ruggedjeep
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- Location
- Sherman Oaks
checked mine, seems fine to me. Im running a 33" with a jerry can mount and a hi-lift so its also pretty heavy. no signs of cracked welds..
lazyxj
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- Los Angeles
ruggedjeep said:
When you passed me on the freeway last night, it looked like your rear bumper has a full load
- Location
- REDLANDS, CA. (SoCal)
Seems to me there was a whiney SOB not too long ago that had some issues with a vendeor, he could learn much from this thread.
Bent said:
I'm sorry, I don't follow..... For what it's worth, this seems to be an isolated issue and not anything to worry about. Terry's bumpers are excellent quality and for some reason, mine broke. There could be a million reasons why it broke and I'm not pointing any fingers, but fixing broken stuff is the nature of this sport. Anyways, I was hoping to inform people that my welds broke and they might want to look at theirs is all.
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- Louisville, IL
In the thread Bent is talking about the guy said XXXXX is a piece of crap, don't buy from them & everything they make is junk. You presented your info in a much better way. JIM.53guy said:
ruggedjeep
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- Sherman Oaks
ahh so that was you... I posted in the socal forum asking who it was..lazyxj said:When you passed me on the freeway last night, it looked like your rear bumper has a full load
- Location
- REDLANDS, CA. (SoCal)
ILLXJ said:
What Jim said.
Just wanted to follow up....through my talks with Terry, it looks like somehow my bumper managed to have the template tire carrier welded onto it, so it wasn't ever supposed to look like that. He tried to send me another one, but I just welded it up anyhow so I didn't see what good another one would be. Just thought I'd finish up the thread with positive comments for Rigid Co.
