Remington 700 and Model 7 recall!

[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

[chilliman]

well after all the talk it's Total Recall time for my R700s - taking them to Safari tomorrow for their trigger fix

current issue of SSAA magazine has a list of dealers doing the repairs => http://www.ssaa.org.au/industry-news/20 ... 6KVrpSSySo

get some!

(posted this in the other recall thread also)

[Vati]

If you can Chilli, I'd be curious to know how many Safari have got back there.

Just curious to see how many people are taking them back in. (to everywhere, not just Safari)

[chilliman]

gday Vati - I was in and out in under half an hour. the guy who did the work for me said he had done 28 the other day (their Rem stock). not sure how many had been in, not many I guess as he didn't say he'd done any others but mentioned several times that he had done their stock.

[Vati]

Awesome. Great they're doing them on the spot and not booking them in.

[chilliman]

he did say that if I had turned up on Saturday or during a busy period then I may have had to leave them there for pickup later. I got there before midday and all was good.