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Pivot/FKS question

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Kreech
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Recently purchased some look p18 races (the navy blue ones). I took them apart to bend the brakes, having done it multiple times before, and everything was going fine until I had to reattach the half moon piece. I successfully inserted the spring under the brake pad via the hammering technique but when I depressed the brake to screw the half moon back on, the plastic bottom plate snapped clean in half. I was suprised and pretty pissed, as I just bought these bindings off TGR and this has never happened to me before. I don't exactly trust superglueing it, and I know rossi is pretty strict about replacing fks parts. Can I have them ship me a plate/pair of plates, or are they going to throw a shit fit and make me send in the heel assembly? I was thinking that since I hadn't bent the other one yet, I could swap out the brakes before I sent in the assembly and just say I broke it skiing. What is my best option at this point?

Thanks a lot,

Isak
Jul 18 2012 7:34PM
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Mag
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just ask rossi/look, IMO lying to a ski company never benifits anyone, the industry as a whole is usually pretty cool about replacing broken parts no matter what, so try asking them.
Jul 18 2012 8:44PM
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Kreech
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Yeah, I'm all for being completely honest and straightforward with them, I've just heard stories about people trying to get fks parts after telling rossi they disassembled the heelpiece and rossi won't warranty it. In any case, it's looking like I might be able to get another baseplate from a local shop, but if I can't, I would hate to have to sell these for cheap because a shitty baseplate broke on me. Times like these make me swear I'll switch to salomon until rossi gets their brakes figured out and baseplates strengthened, but the ability to get old pairs of fks for cheap, as well as their performance on the hill always change my mind. The fks is kind of the perfect binding performance-wise, it's just such a goddamned pain in the ass, sometimes I wonder if it's worth all the hassle.
Jul 18 2012 9:41PM
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tomPietrowski
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Just to say, if you got the binding second hand off TGR then you have no warranty any way. The warranty only applies to the first owner with the original receipt.

Your best bet is to ring them or take them to a rossi stockist and have them send them back for you.
Jul 18 2012 9:52PM
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Kreech
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I knew there wasn't a warranty, but I thought that you could send them the entire heel assembly and they would replace a broken part, as long as it wasn't like the entire housing or someting, and from what I understand, the base plate is a pretty commonly broken part for fks/pivots.
Jul 19 2012 1:24AM
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tomPietrowski
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yeah you can defiantly send them in and have rossi fix them, I was just saying, dont expect it to be free, or cheap for that matter.
Jul 19 2012 3:03AM
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Kreech
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Alright man, thanks for the advice.
Jul 19 2012 11:57AM
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