Cracked Front Hubs

[miket]

A very similar situation to the bushes in the wishbone debacle, 2 materials that should not really be put together because of reaction/corrosion, not very good engineering, all this whilst under the watchful eye of Ferrari product development/management!

 

[Fair2]

Personally I don't think this is as bad as the wishbones.. well.. not quite as bad..

One of mine cracked after hitting a pot hole. The other I'm not sure.. but probably due to some blunt impact force.

I'm very wary of potholes these days... these cars are fragile...

Mark

I agree. After cracking both front and rear near side wheels I am extremely careful of potholes.
It is not just the cars but our **** roads.

 

[davy83]

Trevor, there is steel insert pressed into the casting and its machined to take the taper of the track rod so the aluminium casting is not put under stress.

Rex B

However after 10-15 years in service with many replacements the bush may compress a little enough to stress the casting. I suspect there are no instances of this on new hubs? if it cracked and was only a year old i would scream design fault but at this age its get a little more blurred i suspect.