This is a very interesting story. It reminds me of the guy who every weekend tightened up every bolt on his motorcycle. Eventualty bolts started breaking off. You must not constantly retorque bolts. I don't think that is what is happening here though. The Delorean venders have known for a long time about the "crappy" OEM trailing arm bolts and all now offer a higher tensile strength bolt with either double nuts or elastic stop-nuts. The problem as I see it is getting the owners of the Deloreans aware of the potential for serious trouble and to check or if in doubt just replacing the "crappy" bolts. They are relatively cheap as compared to the alternative! Also when getting an alignement many shops don't have the proper washers (shims) so the ones they put in are too small or too soft so they bend and crush. Fortunatly this is one area of weak design that is easy to upgrade. In fact I am suprised that none of the US government agencies like DOT or NHSTA never did a recall on this as they did on the front suspension! Failure of this bolt has caused some cars to lose control as told in this list, fortunatly it seems to happen at low speeds but I don't see why it couldn't happen at highway speeds. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxx, tobyp@xxxx wrote: > Hello List - > I've got some information relating to trailing arm bolts that I think > would be of interest