Took this list from an avenger review not really knowing enough about stern quality history. But it scares me to know it could have really been so low at some point. Too many toys forced them to save on base materials?

- Ball trough top welds break
- Non lock style moles connectors on ball trough boards tend to disconnect with vibration
- Broken coil lugs due to thinness
- 555 style GI bulbs which fall out instead of 44/47 style with bayonet
- Wire gauge thickness 24 instead of 18 for powering coils.
- Auxiliary8 driver board problems. MOSfets on this board short and burn

Hit the return too fast while editing. but I am serious about those issues. I played on location a METpro and it showed typical signs about resetting the ball during play. Moved to another place and found an AC/DC. Same issue. In one day I counted 7 balls lost during whole day gameplay. Not to mention the frustration while I was getting a high score and end the match because of a reset.

Mmh.. clearly I should not have posted this thread in the Stern subforum. Everyone seems superhappy which is a good sign and Stern has taken good and important steps to avoid this in more recent models. But which ones in you opinion, dear fan... ehhrrmm... owners?