[2K16SummitSS]

Originally Posted by Diode Dynamics

We really appreciate everyone's patience. We've been excited to get these out for a while but here's the story:

We had some issues with the final step of the assembly process, which is ultrasonic welding the lens and housing together. Previous sidemarkers we have made have quite a bit of tolerance in the location of the seal. If you look at the Camaro ones, you will see that it is completely flush around the edge where the lens meets the housing. We didn't realize how much trickier this would be.

The ultrasonic welding process requires a horn to be produced, which is basically a block of aluminum that must be cut carefully to be contoured the the lens, polished to a mirror finish to avoid any scratches, all while being "tuned" to a specific frequency so it resonates and welds the pieces together with sounds waves. The original horn we had delivered was not prepared properly for us, so it was not getting a reliable seal, the parts were not locating properly. Even if it's airtight now, if the seal is not strong enough, tiny pinhole leaks may have developed within a few years on the road, so we knew it had to be fixed. We tried to machine the horn to fix it, but we accidentally put it out of tuning by a few khz from what we can tell. So we had to have a new horn re-made, which is a process that (as you have experienced) takes a few weeks. We CNC ourselves here, but with the way the horn must be tuned, we cannot make them ourselves. We ended up getting a new horn, and then machining out our own base anvil to hold the parts in place nice and secure. Pic attached of the base, which is ready to go.

Anyway, we expect the new horn to be delivered Monday and we have confirmed about 2 dozen times now that it will be tuned properly. We will then get production underway, and will FINALLY be shipping very soon. We should have confirmed all this before advising our release date, but we honestly did not expect to see these issues that would end up causing an 8 week delay - big lesson learned. Thanks for all your patience everyone.

^^^^ This right here is why you will get my business. Absolute honesty, and a cool explanation of production methods and the voodoo that goes along with it I will remain patient for an excellent product.