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If the Great Wall Gun model is currently the most popular pick-up truck in China, no one should have any objection! As the big brother of the domestic pickup market, the Great Wall cannon model launched at the Chengdu Auto Show in 2019 was once sought after by the market, which has a certain advantage in both power and price, and the current monthly sales are basically maintained at more than 10,000 vehicles.

Recently, however, many consumers were surprised by what happened to the Great Wall Gun. When a Harvard H9 was rescuing a trapped Great Wall Cannon, the trailer hook of the Great Wall Gun suddenly broke, smashing through the rear window and roof of the H9. This kind of thing makes many consumers question its quality.

According to the video circulated on the Internet, Harvard H9 tied the trailer rope to the trailer hook at the rear and front of the two cars while rescuing a Great Wall cannon trapped in a small soil slope. However, in the moment of acceleration of the Harvard H9, the trailer hook of the Great Wall gun was "pulled off" directly, and the trailer hook hit the Harvard H9 like a shell, resulting in the damage of the front windshield, the rear windshield and the roof of the car. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

It is worth mentioning that the Great Wall gun trailer hook fracture is not the only incident, in another netizen uploaded video, Toyota FJ Cool Luze in the rescue of a trapped Great Wall gun model, the same sudden acceleration after the trailer hook was directly "broken".

With the occurrence of such a thing, many off-road enthusiasts question the design of the trailer hook of the Great Wall Gun, and think that there are some hidden dangers in the design structure of the "trailer hook" of the Great Wall Gun.

From the pictures provided by netizens, the beam of the Great Wall gun is 90 °perpendicular to the trailer hook, and the trailer hook is welded directly to the beam. This structural design is obviously different from the hard off-road vehicles, which often have at least 16mm cow-nose bolts directly connected to the beam. Therefore, when such a thing happens to the Great Wall Cannon, it is not excessive to question the design defects of the Great Wall gun trailer hook.

In addition, many netizens think that it is the improper rescue method of Harvard H9 that it should not suddenly accelerate and drag, but should pull the trailer rope straight and then slowly. However, even if there may be some impropriety in the rescue method of the Harvard H9, the problem is not the way of dragging, because this kind of tugging is not uncommon in the off-road circle. most of the off-road vehicles with non-load-bearing body structure in China will not break even if they are tugged into the vehicle, even if the vehicle is not towed.

The incident quickly fermented online and triggered netizens' speculation about its product design organization. With regard to the situation in which the trailer hook of the Great Wall gun was broken when it was trapped off-road, the Great Wall pickup truck issued a statement saying that the Great Wall Gun did not fully take into account the special use scenarios of the users. in view of the problem of trailer hook fracture caused by the towing of vehicles under extreme operating conditions, the company is working out an enhanced upgrade plan for the trailer hooks of vehicles for sale, sale and production, and after the upgrade plan is completed this month. Users will be immediately notified of free enhanced upgrades for sold vehicles, simultaneous upgrades for vehicles on sale, and a lifetime free warranty for trailer hooks.

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