Found a crack in a brand new toilet
A cracked porcelain fixture poses severe injury risks and must be replaced immediately before installation is finished. Because the damage was discovered on a brand-new unit before its first use, the fixture cannot be installed safely and requires an immediate return or warranty replacement.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Replacing the fixture immediately before use to avoid structural collapse or injury.
- 2hovering over the toilet
- 3using a jar in the toilet as a warning
- 4shitting in a hole in the woods
- 5hover squat
- 6put some TP down first
- 7put the toilet seat down
- 8repair with ramen or bubblegum
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“iS tHiS dANgeROuS?!”source ↗
“That needs replaced before you end up with an involuntary porcelain ass dildo.”source ↗
“Looks dangerous tbh.”source ↗
“Haven’t even used it. Placed it yesterday and it seemed off.”source ↗
“My eyes went twice as big seeing this picture. This is unusable.”source ↗
Where this came up
People with this problem also raised
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