I'm aware of that. But it still leaves you wondering whether they even test their products or simply leave that up to buyers

 not really, there are still quite a few 06 stinkys with this linkage purely because some just seemed to be more prone to bending than others (due to factory errors) and they dont test every one that they sell to destruction, no. that would be stupid now wouldn't it?

 So their factory is full of monkeys is what you're trying to tell me...
Have you ever heard of production sampling? You know where 1 out of every lets say 1000 products gets pulled off the line and is tested to meet requirements? Yes that is quite common I know. Why would you make yourself look dumb and tell me that it would be stupid to test every product? Clearly no body is going to do that Captain Obvious but they should do sampling. If those linkages passed sampling or more likely they just didn't give a shit, kona is an even bigger bunch of high school drop outs. Sampling is not going to over look half of all the linkages so most likely they just didn't even do any testing.

What do you have to say now smartass?

 you think you're pretty smart don't you? clearly your opinion is just that. You dont have a clue what they do and to be honest mate i can think of worse companies to talk about with testing... of course they tested them, but they arent easy to bend.. doesnt just happen if you hit a curb or something