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[Eric Phillips]

Ah, but then there's "fatigue limit"

Aluminum doesn't have one.  Steel does.  IOW, at a certain level of
bending (stress), you can bend a steel part forever without fatigue.
Not so with aluminum.

Steel is hard to fabricate, while aluminum is frightfully easy.
Aluminum is often a very economical choice for parts-making.

Eric

On 7/19/07, QSHIPQ at aol.com <QSHIPQ at aol.com> wrote:
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> I watched a TT front carrier fail at Gingermann a few years ago.  The good
> thing about steel is it flexes.  The bad thing about steel is it flexes, why
> we all hat the G60's IMO.  If you compare a G60 to a 1995 M3, the G60
> dimensions are better than the M3, but the M3 brakes better.
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> SJ
> In a message dated 7/19/2007 3:13:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> lee at wheelman.com writes:
> There's a couple of failures listed on audizine.com, one for a TT
> carrier on the rear of an A4 and another of the ECS carrier. I
> didn't search on this, was just looking for brake information, so
> I don't know what else is there. Catastrophic failure is nasty,
> and I'm concerned about the TT carrier failure...although it's
> unclear whether this was an OE part or a copy.
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> Lee
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Eric

1995 UrS6 "Silber Geist"