While the people who bought it when it first came out seemed to be worried about the tracks being a potential weak point I have found a really shoddy assembly/parts material/design issue. When I first got the vehicle everything seemed to be very good and the initial plan was to do some modifications by installing a Clark board so it could take and receive IR hits and also to install the Das Werk PAK40 cannon. However while handling it gently the first day the rearmost bogie just fell off taking the track and next 2 rear bogies with it. It was a potential disaster as the rearmost bogie is the only one with a roller bearing installed rather than just sitting on a plastic race on the suspension arm.
The suspension arms seem to be made out of the same type of plastic you would get on a sprue. So starting with this weak plastic at the factory they have driven sharp pointed screws in to attach the reamost bogie together. What has happened is they have basically caused the plastic to become brittle and literally falls apart like a rotten tooth. I managed to find all 4 pieces that had fallen off and re assembled them and JB Weld-ed them back in place so that crisis was solved. However I then noticed the second from rear bogie was sliding out on the suspension arm from the hole it passes through in the hull. I then took the underside plate off. They had driven these same type of pointed screws in so tight that it had over-stressed the plastic and as soon as I started to unscrew them the plate broke around each screw hole and right across. Well that could be easily dealt with.
However what could not be easily dealt with is again they had driven screws from the inside arm to join the outer suspension arm and to have like 0'5mm of the screw point to sort of fit into the hole in the rear of the double bogie and this had failed from brittleness again only this time inside the hole in the hull so there was no way to join it as it was a shattered mess so I had to glue that arm in it's resting position and is now non functional suspension wise. Now the single bogie. The single bogies are not even attached at all. They sit on this weak plastic race and are held in place by the guide horns and double bogie. All the suspension arms are the same it just that fortunately they didn't drive a screw through the hole on the ones with the single bogies. It's an unbelievably cheap way to do something on a model that in all other ways is actually really good and I hope these sell enough that someone will come out with a set of metal suspension arms and bogies with roller bearings. But just a heads up. Here is a pic of the single bogie race and bogie sitting on drive sprockets and also the cracking on the underside plate. I didn't have a chance to get images of the more serious issues on the rear and second rear bogie
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to get hold of one..................... 
Torro quickly sent me a replacement front axle assembly ( 
). I replaced front axle assembly without too much trouble. I glued the broken front spindle back together, painted the front axle assembly, and its part of the load in my static FAMO.
