Heed the warnings, don't trust Torqueboards

[BenjaminF]

Jokes aside, this really sucks dude I’m sorry you had this experience.

[Evwan]

I’m so sorry you had to go through this shit with torqueboards. You’re out of legal options, as in you cannot sue?

[rusins]

Related threads:

TB110 72A wheels have common delamination failures, since TorqueBoards isn’t replacing them people are left trying to fix them themselves:

TB110 Delam fix (hopefully)

For the record I don’t think this issue is widespread and this only happened to 1 of my wheels. So after a few more rides with the issue getting a bit worse and more dirt getting in there I decided to clean it up and glue it. I used a couple soldering tools like flat edge screwdrivers to wedge it and make enough space for a dental water pik to flush the cavity out. I used orange degreaser for some time and scraped what I could out with the tool. And followed up flushing with the dental pick t…

TB Direct drive hangers are very prone to bending. TB have done nothing to address the problem, leading to 3rd party vendors providing replacement parts:

[Order Placed] TBDD CNC STEEL Hangers

Righto cocks, I’m sure you’ve seen em before, the good ol’ @torqueboards direct drives. [received_518413176209187] [received_193565582307922] Do your hangers look like this? Wish they were straight? Good news! If we can gain enough interest, we can most likely come up with a better, stronger solution. I need at least 10 people who are truly interested in this to even get a price happening, so if you or anybody you know has some bent TBDD hangers, let me know! And please post photos of your…

People in general have issues with these drives, bad bearings, scraping, slop between drives and hanger, etc. Here’s an example of someone’s experience:

@thistallguyiknow

Ya 8 bought two sets of the TB DD75 Kv motors and both sets had one motor that was defective, hit the gas and i would get this crazy skipping, almost stripping sound and chattering feeling…not the motor being loose on the hanger (i think that us standard issue for every set of DD’s from TB… that is an easy fix) mine felt like the like the rotor was skipping past the stator or something like that…i really don’t know what the issue was I just know they got super hot super fast and the reaked of burning death electrical smell after 2 miles and one motor still would spin freely and the other one that smelled of electrical death I got much much harder to turn and certainly would not spin freely.

I ended up with two of the four motors still working all right.

I bought thousands of dollars worth of stuff from torque boards and and just about every shipment something was missing or incorrect I got kegel adapter rings with abec Drive pulleys in the same package they shorted me on sets of AT tires, I bought two batteries and paid for the upgrade to the 4 amp charger and I was sent one two amp charger and one 4 amp charger it just everything had a problem the stuff that works worked well and I will give Dexter credit for being responsive and after much emailing back and forth refunding my money for the stuff that didn’t get sent but I didn’t even try to deal with the motors being defective I just figured I would cut my losses and take my business elsewhere and since then I’ve been a much happier builder.

TB trucks don’t have their axles installed with enough threadlocker, so they can fall out while riding:

PSA: Be super careful with TorqueBoards Direct Drives, almost got very injured again with them

Just FYI, everyone should really aggressively check their axles/generally their whole TorqueBoards Direct Drive units that they are not loose in any way, it seems my 75KV dd’s axle just fell off the hanger. This is the 2nd time I almost got very injured from @torqueboards Direct Drives. First was in October on some 90 KV’s that I think have a magnet issue and threw me off the board, which was that board’s inaugural ride, luckily at a low speed so I was able to run it off. I sent those back to h…

@torqueboards

Learn how to fall.

[xsynatic]

@torqueboards

Learn how to fall.

always cracks me up.

[frame]

@rusins

TB trucks don’t have their axles installed with enough threadlocker

there was none to start with

[mr.shiteside]

@xsynatic

@torqueboards

Learn how to fall.

always cracks me up

Same lol, but to be fair some of the most fun I’ve had with eskate has been sessions of falling practice. There’s a lot to be said for deliberately yeeting yourself off

[PatRocks]

Fuck. I always thought their customer service was spec.1! I guess that’s been readjusted?

[UFOskada]

After searching here for 1 minute before i even ordered my first part i completely wrote them off.

[longhairedboy]

Why did it take so long for this thread to happen?

[Tamatoa]

[ShutterShock]

It used to be but it seems that the company has gone downhill…

Very sad. Years ago their stuff used to be the best. CS was great, and quick shipping.

As far as I know dexter has sort of stepped away and it doesn’t seem like there’s much light at the end of the tunnel

[longhairedboy]

@ShutterShock

their stuff used to be the best.

ehhhh…

@ShutterShock

CS was great,

Selectively.

@ShutterShock

and quick shipping.

Can’t argue that.

[ShutterShock]

Talking like, idk, 2018? They had good stuff for the time

True about selective cs but for me it was good

[longhairedboy]

I kept hearing about their good parts. I kept trying them out, i kept filling my dead drawer, and I’ve been buying from that site for as long as it has existed. I find it strange every time i hear about people having great luck with their parts.

[ShutterShock]

I have had their motors and mounts on two boards for years now and they worked fine for me

My friend’s board even has the v7 kit on it and I have no complaints really

[longhairedboy]

Maybe i kept getting stuff too early.

[ShutterShock]

Who knows…

Either way, it still sucks to see an OG go bad

[approachinglogic]

Has been bad for years. Never mind go bad. I had good DDs from him…but at the end of the day he’s still a con man and should be removed from any ‘good vendor’ threads…

And placed in a do not buy / unsafe vendor thread

[longhairedboy]

@approachinglogic

I had good DDs from him…

the beta units lasted. The production units were spotty as fuck.

@approachinglogic

but at the end of the day he’s still a con man

elaborate.

[ShutterShock]

@approachinglogic

but at the end of the day he’s still a con man

People throw these terms around so lightly

Not a “scammer” or “Con man”