No. I tend to baby my boats and have never had lid rivets fail on any of my boats over the years. All I can guess is they must have had a bad batch of rivets...

Quote Originally Posted by John B. View Post
Are you opening them like the HULK SMASH or something? They have shocks on them as well that should keep things from overextending the hinges and breaking the glass or riveting. We have had 8 boats including a VX and never had that issue. Something is weird.