--- In dmcnews@xxxx, Les Huckins <jhuckins@xxxx> wrote: >TA bolts: both Toby who > came up with the bolts and Darryl who will be selling the bolts have > early VINs, in the 2000 to 3000 range. Each had the only stories of > near failure of the TA bolts when that thread was running...I wonder if > there was a change later. Les, if I may throw in my first hand experience with my Late 81 (Nov - 06960) I have had a near-failure experience with my trailing arm bolts. I lost all the shims on my passenger side bolt, so that trailing arm kept getting tossed in and out from wheel torque. I never realized how severe my problem was untill my slave cylinder exploded and I was looking around under the car. If I havn't have seen the gap without shims, I would have very likely had a breakage in the near future. (Keep reading...) > Craig display failure: I've repaired eight units, none had the clock in > the display. Could they have changed the flex material when they got to > the clock in the display version? I do have one of these Craigs with the built-in clock. The flex circuit still looks like it takes the unruley bend, but I've never seen an older craig up close to compare. Unfortunately, I damaged the tape mechanism, rendering the whole radio useless, the night before departing on my trip to Houston last August. Les, the only reason I think you've never seen a craig with the built in clock is that there were so few of them put in the cars. If somebody would like this unit, let me know. Jim Reeve MNDMC - Minnesota DeLorean Club DMC-6960