There’s no effin way my beginner ass just caused this pop. I literally ollied a crack and then slowly did a maybe 2in powerslide. Then... POP I heard, and I was 1 truck less..
Posted Apr 27, 2020, 11:51 PM UTC
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30 cent hardware & 5 dollar postage.. keeps the customer happy. I can't see them not sending you a new one.. best of luck
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I’ve snapped a few Indy and Theeve kings and emailed them a picture and they sent a new one to me pretty quickly.
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The same thing happened to me today. I’ve been trying to learn a rolling ollie. Now I need a new board. Why does this happen? How can I avoid this in the future?
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This is a faulty piece. No kingpin should break with that little effort. Contact either the brand or the shop that sold it to you, it's most likely under warranty
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What about if you've been using the same trucks for years, but never did any large tricks? Surely the kingpin will give out eventually if you ollie enough times.
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Sure, but it'd have to be rusty, cheap, or overtightened for years with high duro bushings, and even then, you may have to swap the bushings a couple of times.
These parts are stress tested when they're designed and manufactured. There are people out threre rocking 20 year old kingpins without trouble. When a car is equally as old, you don't swap all the bolts and nuts either, unless they're damaged or rusty.
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Ima bout to buy some tensor mag light trucks, this is not good news, this is how bad marketing starts. :c hopefully you can get that replaced.
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they're tensors and u might be fat
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You're correct. That's a faulty kingpin. There's no way (even with crazy overtightening) that you should be able to split it. I've bent dozens of kingpins, but never broken one.
You should contact Tensor.
Tell Tensor your taking ur talents to Independent 👍