This may be of interest.
I test plenty of vehicles daily, and during the test plenty of them fail due to exactly the same issue, so we are not alone in this.
The quality is simply not there any more regardless of where they are purchased from. Also when you see the angles that these items operate through during steering movements, its hardly suprising these go prematurely bad.
One last observation, Some folks go the extra mile in cleaning the inside of wheel arches and the roadside car wash teams all over the country may be causing problems with the use of caustic products such as TFR, this will acellerate the problems to include the fading of black plastics and other softer materials (Tyre side-walls are also affected)
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