Freestyle ARB powder coating

[WILL FLY]

I have noticed on two different cars that have freestyle adjustable front ARBs that the powder coating has flaked off and that the blades are covered in rust, these ARBs are less than 2 years old. The normal caterham ARB on my car hasn't got a spot of rust on it, so why do te Freestyle ARBs lose their powder coating and go rusty. Is this a common problem or was it a problem with early ARBs which has now been fixed. I'll also be asking Len directly but wanted to here the customers' POV as well before I shell out over 150 quid on the ARB.

 

Roy.

 

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[Paul D Jones]

I would guess that they where not shot blasted before powder coating and the twisting of the bar has caused the bond between the steel and the powder coat to fail and fall off then it all goes rusty

 

Paul.

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[Petrolhead]

Have you adjusted this much?

 

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[Graham Sewell]

The only place where mine is rusting is along the edge between the flat side and the short side at the front of the bar. As this is a right angle, I can imagine that it is difficult to get anything to stick at that point through the amount of flex that the bar puts up with in its softest setting.

 

By contrast a smooth surface like a circular cross section bar is no trouble to get powder coat to stick.

 

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[Sheds Moderator]

You should worry, my entire chassis is doing this, powdercoated as it was by a team of monkeys in '96. Perhaps Freestyle are getting them done at the same outfit. The cure is proper powdercoating or painting, which should last a long time.