Durability in FRC

[MikeBrock]

Originally Posted by nathannfm

After building FRC robots for years it still amazes me how cars, that only cost 4 times as much can stand up to 100's of thousand of miles of driving over years and still hold up reasonably well when our robots are always barely hobbling along by the last off season.

I have only rarely seen robots that are "barely hobbling along" by the end of the season. Perhaps teams who experience this need to re-evaluate their construction methods?