I noticed recently with patch 1.6 that the armour pieces would randomly reset the attached mod values.

First observation was when I was going into a braindance session on Judy's quest. My armour pieces were of legendary tier and upgraded to max level. All the pieces had legendary armadillo at max value 75. After the braindance, nearly all of the armadillo mods would have random tiers (uncommon, rare, epic etc) and random values.

Second observation was when I was doing the Queen of the Highway gig. Some of the armour pieces would reset back to level 1 values. I reloaded to a save before riding the Basilisk and unequipped the head, face, and outer torso armour pieces. That seemed to avoided the bug from triggering. HOWEVER.

Somehow, somewhere down the line, I had noticed the head armour piece, in this case was the Cushioned Techie Baseball Cap had reset its level back to 1, as in its base armour is 3.7. And I have no idea how it happened. I was not in any gig or did any activities that involved a braindance sequence

This has been a recurring theme with Armadillo clothing mods specifically.

If you ever used a character editor or a mod to change armour values or item rarity, or used a glitch to duplicate items, you're now seeing the actual item value or rarity.

Assuming you didn't, else you would likely know what caused it, this is unfortunately "just one of those randum bugs" that's still happening in the game.

It could also happen if you recently patched the game from anything prior to the 1.5 patch (like going from 1.31 to 1.6), as they revamped the whole clothing mod system in 1.5.

Easiest way to fix it is craft new Armadillo mods.

I have had to do this numerous times myself, on various clothing mods, even with newly crafted ones. Craft legendary Armadillo mods, put them on clothes, use them, reload a save later on, and see the mods gradually drop in armour value or tier.

It has typically happened 2-3 times during a 200+ hour playthrough, so it's not a frequent thing under normal circumstances.

I've gotten the same problem now. Was doing the "Queen of the Highway" mission and some time after that all my armour (Rocker stuff) was being reduced to level 1.

Not immediatly sometimes after the first travel, sometimes after 2-3 undiscovered gigs/cyberpsychos.

Have never modded my game or used a character editor. Thinking about doing something like this now though, since upgrading all Armour items 30 Levels is something I can't afford.

Have done the quest now about 3 times and every time the same result. Once the armour has been lowered to LvL 1 the other saves have their armour changed aswell. So the bug goes through different savestates :(