I love my suspension but I recently bought a higher end Gerber and I absolutely hate it. They started selling multi tools with replaceable wire cutter inserts. The problem is that the inserts are just indexable carbide machining inserts, designed to scrape in the forward direction through metal, not designed to shear laterally. They crush pretty easily under the force and then you need to buy more at $20 per pair. Gerber has been aware of the problem for years but they're ignoring the issue due to the number of customers that never actually use wire cutters.

Sintered carbide is the wrong material but they advertise it as the perfect wire cutter because the inserts are multi sided and can be rotated when one side gets dull. That assumes they haven't shattered of course, and I haven't had such luck. Leatherman also has replaceable wire cutters on their higher end models, but instead of sintered carbide they are made of 154CM high carbon knife steel, which is the right material for the job. They last a really long time and are only $10 to replace.

That said though, I do still love my Gerber suspension. I'm just not buying anything else from Gerber until they own up and fix this engineering issue.