Post your Flip pac Torsion bar failure or success

[aequitas3]

What do they look like when they break?

 

[mtnbike28]

I try to look at it (other than the injury) as life cycle. Camp trailers wood floor's rot, truck motors die, etc. The thing is, for my family, I would hate to have to replace it - space, ease of use, fitting on tighter trails. Still love ours and average 40 nights a year in it since we got it.

This thread (and all the others) provide a depressing overview of the ownership, use and, in some cases, the dangers of this product's apparently consistent failure.

It looks like a good product but this spring issue is the massive underside of the iceberg in Flippac ownership.

 

[scantino]

Currently researching all the different ways everyone fixes up their Flippacs and am a little concerned with the stories of catching a torsion bar to the face. Also concerned with how heavy the lid sounds without the torsion bar.

Are there any other methods?