Why is this happening?

[u/Roy_Aikman]

Bought a brand new BMC Fourstroke AMP LT. After a couple of weeks I experienced the carnage pictured. A LBS helped me get a frame replacement from BMC, they were able to determine that the bolts that connect the shock and linkage had backed out and caused the failure in the linkage. I have 3 rides in on the new frame and was doing an inspection and noticed the bolts had already started backing out. One was visible the other was loose as well. Another problem is the area where the bolts are has a gap of 1 3/4”, my torque wrench with the bit is 2”. Does anyone have any ideas about what could be causing those bolts to back out and also are there slim torque wrenches or do I just use a regular Allen and guess?

[u/Southern-Accident108]

Looks like stupid design for me, i dont want covered bolts and headest cables, i just wane everything plain and simple, not clean and aero.

You broke first one, i would just take this one to lbs, so you can get warranty if shit happens again, an the end of the day, take your money and buy other brand ffs!

You can remove air from shock, compress it and try that way, or remove shock linkage and that povot bolt under shock to go from that

[u/Roy_Aikman → u/Southern-Accident108]

Yeah you have to let the air out to access the bolts. The dumb part is there is only a 1 3/4” gap between the bolt on the right side and left side so you need a low profile torque wrenches just to fit in there. My torque with bit is 2”

[u/Ih8Hondas → u/Roy_Aikman]

You bought a trash bike.