Remington 700 and Model 7 recall!

[Techc]

Some problems with the Rem 700 and 7 triggers it seems... For fellow Remington shooters here...

Immediately stop using your rifle until Remington can inspect it to determine if the XMP trigger has excess bonding agent used in the assembly process, which could cause an unintentional discharge and, if so, specialty clean and restore it to a safe operating condition. If you own a rifle subject to this recall, Remington will provide shipping, inspection, specialty cleaning, and return at no cost to you. DO NOT attempt to diagnose or repair your rifle yourself.

You can enter your serial number here to see if you're affected by this.

[chilliman]

This is very bad timing as I'm in the market for couple of 5Rs at the moment.

I might go ahead with the purchase and contact the ebay trigger guy to see if he can overcome this, who cares about warranty?

[Boatman]

Get the serial numbers before you buy them?

Check them on the website and if it's all good then make the purchase.

If not, move on.

[chilliman]

Given that the recall is for rifles made up to 09/04/2014 I think pretty much every R700 with XMP trigger will be affected - I should be so lucky to find rifles not part of the recall.

I hope LGS's will get their stock fixed prior to sale.

[Combat_Wombat]

The Remington haters will love this... Any idea how long they will be gone for?

[chilliman]

my guess is anything less than a month would be unlikely, more likely 2-3 months esp if they have to go to the US for tweaking.

[Westy]

my guess is anything less than a month would be unlikely, more likely 2-3 months esp if they have to go to the US for tweaking.

I think you mean Mexico don't you?

Bugger... I got one, I'll be on the phone to Raytrade tomorrow
(03) 9706 5936
I Only slumed it the once and you guessed it it was on the recall list. Bugger!

Thanks for the heads up Guys, as usual the retailers have done nothing again to help notify the paying customer! Asswipes.

[von_klitzing]

Our LGS up here in townsville has a qualified Remington gunsmiths and are already offering repairs for any customers that require them as of this morning. Lucky us. No sending them away to the US. Sounds like a pretty minor issue anyway.

[Fry]

The Remington haters will love this... Any idea how long they will be gone for?

8 years worth of rifles... I can only imagine how many they made in that time to need fixing...

Tens of thousands? Hundreds possibly?

Just guessing really but surely months? Unless you luck out like von_klitzing and have a local smith to do repairs, but that's not gunna be common I don't think.

[Techc]

Thanks for the heads up Guys, as usual the retailers have done nothing again to help notify the paying customer! Asswipes.

No worries.

Yeah, can't say I imagine a sign over gun shop counters saying "ask us about your faulty Remington 700" any time soon

Other things they'd rather be handling I'm sure.

[Monty]

8 years worth of rifles... I can only imagine how many they made in that time to need fixing...

Tens of thousands? Hundreds possibly?

Easily more than 100k a year.

They started making the 700 in 1962 and the advertisements for them in the SSAA mag say they've sold more than 7,000,000 of them, right?

7 rifles million divided by 52 years is 134,615 rifles a year and that's an average. In reality it would obviously be far less in the early days, and far more recently.

[Westy]

Talked to Raytrade this morning and they assured me it was a voluntary recall and thought it wasn't a issue due to our climate????They apparently had one fail in excesively cold conditions and so Remington thought that it was better safe than sorry.I'll be ordering a new trigger for mine and having it installed anyways.Please don't shoot the messenger I'm just passing on the info!!!

Cheers Westy

[Fry]

So potentially a million and a half rifles or so over the 8 years then?

Awesome

[chilliman]

Gents - I have just received an email from the Retail & Compliance Manager at SSAA St Mary's, they are a Remington distributor. I had asked if he was aware of the recall and were they taking steps to check if Remington's subject to the recall had been repaired.

His response as follows:

"The Australian Remington has not advised us of any recall at this time but they will advise the dealer network and Australian consumers in due cause should Australian delivered product be effected."

My interpretation of that is 'nothing to see here, move along'.

I've just bought two 5Rs (223 + 308) for a great price - recall, shmecall, I don't care about no stinkin' recall.

[Norton]

Er, hangon...

So you told him there is a recoil on according Remington's own website, but they're going to ignore it until Remington personally tell them about it?

Well, that inspires confidence...

[Silver87]

I've got an "affected" rifle and I'm not overly worried, it functions and shoots very well. I looked into the problem a bit more and it sounds like the adhesive used to cover the adjustment screws may have made its way into other parts of the trigger mech and may create a accidental discharge. I don't have a round chambered unless I'm pointed where I want to shoot and I'll most likely have a smith work on my trigger anyways so that's my reasoning.
As for Remington haters, well..

[Vati]

A broken picture for them?

[handofcod]

I've just bought two 5Rs (223 + 308) for a great price - recall, shmecall, I don't care about no stinkin' recall.

Just plugged my 223 5R into the search and it's one the list of recall. Crap!

[Beechy]

So what should I do with my 700? Wait or contact the retailer? Or just be extra careful? :/

[Mark TAC]

^^ Beechy maybe put your s/n into the search as above??!! :-0 Geez, I would if I were you.


My VSSF is unaffected, as is my Sendero. It is only some triggers (XMark), not all rifles, and even then it is a "maybe if then else perhaps" error.

Of course I await the usual "Howa Tikka are sooo good Remingtons are crap" club to come out firing

Hardly a stress-out event, Porsche, Hyundai, Great Wall and Lamborghini have recalls and you don't have to send your car overseas...?

OTOH my main issue is Raytrade can't handle "customer service" in the usual course of events, let alone a recall.......... so I hold out little hope.........

[Beechy]

^Mark yes of course I did that, thats why I posted the comment... and I do have an Xmark trigger... Maybe I'll just get a smith to swap out the trigger assembly but if there's "adhesive in the working parts" then that won't do much good. No you wouldn't send your car overseas, but you'd probably take it to the dealer??? I'm not too fussed as a wouldn't load anything to discharge unless I was ready to shoot, but if an accident did happen, a manufacturers default couldn't be blamed if there has been a recall - it would come down to my negligence. BTW i've been a stay at home dad for the past 5 weeks so this is the most exciting thing in my life right now lol

[Westy]

So what should I do with my 700? Wait or contact the retailer? Or just be extra careful? :/

Change it out for a after market Trigger and send the bill to Raytrade!

That's what I'll be doing, they supplied me and charged me for a faulty trigger so I say it's their problem, not mine!

[Mark TAC]

Sorry Beechy I took it to mean you wanted to know what to do with "a Remington 700" I didn't know that you were aware yours was affected. If that makes sense :/

[Norton]

That's what I'll be doing, they supplied me and charged me for a faulty trigger so I say it's their problem, not mine!

I'm with you in spirit but I think that's gunna be an uphill battle.

[chilliman]

Abelas Sydney told me last week they are getting a trigger-guy in to do the recall work at some stage.

[Vati]

Better than sending them all back to go in some huge pile at Remington I suppose.

Any idea of the wait for affected guys?

[chilliman]

LGS says Remington rep advised that this is only likely to be an issue at -18 degC

so no shooting in a commercial freezer, ok!?!

[RealNick]

so no shooting in a commercial freezer, ok!?!

Well.... Shooting is just useless now isn't it!

[Will]

So the recall is relevant for like Alaska only maybe

[Pilch]

Apparently lowest temperature ever in Australia was -23c at about 20 years ago.

And at 5758 ft

So unless you're there, hopefully you're ok