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Hi all, new to forum but have a question regarding ski boots I bought ages ago. I have a pair of salomon course x scream ski boots which are really comfortable and I'm going away next year on holiday. I just got back into skiing last year after a long lay off, I was wondering if my boots were still up to the task of a weeks holiday.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Welcome 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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No. If they're really comfortable they can't possibly be any good. Probably too large.
I'd suggest you immediately start looking for some new ones. 
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If your boots are comfy and the plastic isn't cracking up form being left in the sun or subjected to large temperature swings then they will be fine. Happy comfortable feet are much more important than close fitting torture chambers. Many of my neighbours ski in boots of the same vintage, and they have been skiing in them 40+ days a year since they bough them.
Do put them on and walk round the house a bit to make sure they are still comfy. Pull the liners out and give them a good look over, cheking they don't look like they are colapsing or moth eaten.
Yes boot technology has moved on a bit (quite a bit in certain specifc areas) but none of these improvments are relevent if you are comfortable in your shoes and not sloping around like you are wearing a bucket.
olderscot, I think you need new boots. I've not skied in painful ones (the odd prototype aside) since descovering what bootfiters were and why you shoud visit one.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Blackieg64, welcome to the mad house there will be lots of opinions but i will echo that of Idris above, go try them, the plastic is getting on a bit, and depending on how it has been stored the integrity may have been compromised but you will only know this by wearing the boot, and going skiing (you could put them in a freezer then smack them with a hammer if you like but that is probably a little extreme)
if they do fail then there is a risk, but it is unlikely that they will...if you had said they were another brand from a couple of years earlier i would be more worried
go ski, enjoy and if you are going to get back doing more then you can replace the boots in the future when you need to
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CEM,
Thanks for the replies. They're still in good condition, went well at glenshee earlier this year so think I'll see how they go. The next thing is to purchase a pair of skis. Where to start? Lol
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