Cannondale CAAD9 Made in USA - Build Quality Problems

aloadofpants
aloadofpants Posts: 30
edited August 2010 in Road buying advice
Just brought one of the last USA built CAAD9 frames and the build quality is so terrible that I have had to return it. Will now have to wait for a CAAD X Made in Taiwan 2011.. I suspect the US factory workers are hardly going to do a good final job if they will be out of work
Anyone else had problems or noticed slipping quality?

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  • chriskempton
    chriskempton Posts: 1,245
    What sort of problems have you had then?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Indeed, what was so terrible about it?
  • aloadofpants
    aloadofpants Posts: 30
    Terrible finishing around the BB30 bottom bracket, terrible finish around frame where the headset meets (completely offset and not flush), resulting in dodgy steering. When compared with taiwan made frames (welds aside), the tolerances are not great. This Made in USA is marketing hype... perhaps i had a bad one but still very disappointed after such a long wait.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    You must have had THE bad one. What do you mean by 'Finish'?

    Did you take any pics?
  • unixnerd
    unixnerd Posts: 2,864
    That sucks, my CAAD5's frame is a work of art.
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  • aloadofpants
    aloadofpants Posts: 30
    NapoleonD wrote:
    You must have had THE bad one. What do you mean by 'Finish'?

    Did you take any pics?

    The 'finish' is the way the frame is 'cut off' which looks like it's been done with a junior hacksaw - very ragged, no paint, and so uneven the headset and bb30 bottom bracket are not even aligned. Looks very shoddy.
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    Took some pics?
  • oscarbudgie
    oscarbudgie Posts: 850
    Pics would be interesting - I have to say its the first time I have ever heard of quality issues on a CAAD9
    Cannondale Supersix / CAAD9 / Boardman 9.0 / Benotto 3000
  • daveydave43
    daveydave43 Posts: 200
    you didn't buy it off Wiggle by any chance did you?
    perhaps they should be notified :D
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  • White Line
    White Line Posts: 887
    Pics or it didn't happen.

    :wink:
    Emiliana the CAAD9
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Right. I call shennanigans.

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