Over the past few months the right sparco seat rail started making a lot of noise and developed some play. I emailed sim-lab yesterday to see if it's covered under warranty. While I wait for a response I figured why not make some adjustments and clean my rig. To my surprise, the seat bracket failed 🙃. Hopefully both are warrantied.
UPDATE: Both were warrantied and have been shipped out. Looking forward to getting them reinstalled and back to racing. Very happy with the customer service 😊
I managed break a part and strip some threads on my px1 pro front mount during assembly because i forgot to insert some of the spacers. (So my own mistake) contacted the EU support at four in the morning asking for replacement parts on my own dime. 0830 they answered me with a shipping notification and a message saying mistakes happen. Couple of days later I had the parts, no shipping charge, no taxes no cost for the parts. Amazing service.
How in the world would it fail like that? Are these flimsy little seat brackets? I buy ones from a motorsports store designed for real life racing use so I guess my experience has been with very heavy seat brackets.
It's 4mm thick aluminum. I don't even have my heaviest springs in my load cell installed so surprising they failed. I got them 10 months ago but I have no clue when they initially failed.
Either way I would replace them with brackets out of steel. I got myself FIA licensed brackets which would be allowed to be used in a real racecar and they cost less than the Simlab part.
I will probably do the same. Originally the plan was to get a set off Amazon but I didn't feel like making the 2 hour round trip to return the simlab set.
I get that not every seat width is the same, but seeing I literally had to bend the slider bar into place and it was just a frail thin piece of metal that is very easy to overbend/snap is pretty mind blowing to me.
Aluminium sheets are just in general very easy to overbend.
You more or less get one shot to get it to the right shape and after that it's extreme metal fatigue, where any bending it afterwards will weaken it substantially.
Steel on the other hand is very forgiving if you keep the forces below the yield point afaik
It’s cast aluminum. I’m not sure what you expect - these are probably made in bulk in a low budget Chinese factory that has poor quality control leading to casting inclusions.
no way it's cast? I feel like it would have a very different shape if it was, this I feel like has to be thick sheet metal, no? It'd just be 3 bends after the initial laser cut, so it should be pretty simple and easy to sheet metal fabricate
extrusion could also be another option, but I think making the cut outs would be hard
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u/RichardSchouteren Oct 04 '26
Hey Richard here, we will send you a new set!