I used to buy PPC but stopped when they decided it was more important to organise a show than put out a mag worth the paper. Copy and paste articles of other magazines work doesn't cut it. It went very downhill very quickly.
There's certainly some "syndication" going on there with t'other magazines in the group.
The design change to plastic dowels occurred very early on and was exactly that - a design change hence the phrase design fault. It'd only be a build quality issue if they were installed incorrectly.
BUT, if the original design called for steel dowels, and the later design called for steel dowels, I'd call it a build quality issue: or, more pointedly, "some thick production engineer got involved". No real designer could ever imagine that plastic dowels would work in a running engine.
Of course, you could argue that the build quality was a result of the line running too fast with the original real dowels.................
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