michael_sa wrote:Update.
Until now I hadn't included the dealer in what's been going on, I was wanting to (or 'hoping to') find a resolution to this myself.
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Last night I wrote an email to the dealer who I bought the LA101 from. I detailed what I'd been experiencing, what I'd tried, what I thought about the rough tooling marks on the gun and put forward what my expectation was (replacement 101 or credit and I'll get the CZ457 which was my second choice). I was totally expecting that I would be told it should get sent back for repair.
My dealer called me at 8.30 this morning, concerned at what I'd experienced and with no hesitation said bring it back and we'll get it swapped over.
So, for now... there ends the saga.
Well, I was pleased by what the dealer told me yesterday, however today I am back in the land of frustration and to be frank, quite p'd off.
I returned the 101 to the dealer this afternoon. While he was filling out some paperwork, I asked if I would need to submit another PTA. He said no, not unless they decide to replace this with another one... I said "What!, I understood it was getting replaced?"
He explained to me it goes to (he mentioned a name, - I was getting annoyed and didn't log the name to memory) but it sounds like it goes to a 3rd party business/gunsmith who looks after warranty issues and determines what the problem is. faark.
This is really starting to tick me off and if the rifling damage that gamerancher mentioned in his comment (above) might be from the dealers actions, well that just ticks me off even more. LA wont be wanting to cover that under warranty...
I'll be emailing the engineer at LA again tonight
Right now, I don't want to see this thing ever again and if it does come back to me, it'll become the most closely photographed LA101 on the internet.
Sorry Gents for the rant...
Hopefully in a months time I can read back over this thread having had a satisfactory resolution and better outcome than what I'm expecting at the moment.