ATOMIC BINDING FAILURE XTO 12 HELP

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Fellow Snow heads,

I have a pair of 2011/2012 Atomic Blackeye Ti with Atomic XTO 12 bindings on them that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE! Last weekend I went down really hard and blew both my skies off my feet in an EPIC yard sale! After my life flashed in front of me and I came to complete stop with no apparent injuries, I looked up the mountain to see more than just two skies laying on the ground...

It turns out I ripped the entire heal piece off one binding and partially broke the other!

The local Atomic shop tells me he has never seen anything like it and plans to contact Atomic for options... This set up is a "SYSTEM" and they only sell skis and bindings together. My skis are out of warranty so if he can't get them to give him parts he claims my skis may be worthless.

I have searched Ebay and craigslist high and low looking for someone selling a set of XTO 12 to just slide on in replacement (NO LUCK)

Anyone have experience with this or have a set of junk Atomic skis with XTO 12 bindings looking to sell??

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vicmarc927, welcome to snowHeads!

Sounds like some massive force deployed in that fall Shocked

Lucky you came out of that unscathed.
You should be able to fit any bindings to the skis as long as the drill patterns don't clash.

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Thanks Zero_G Unfortunately, that style Atomic ski has a Soloman designed special rail system on it. (No holes required) the binding simply slides on. This is called a "system binding"

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Ah ok. Is it possible to remove the rail itself so that you can mount standard bindings?

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I'm sure this binding is made by Salomon so you might find some compatible alternative - otherwise follow advice from Zero-G and start again without the rails.

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Quick mooch about shows EkoSport have some, albeit the 2014 model...

http://www.ekosport.co.uk/atomic-xto-12-race-ome-red-whi-14-p-1-25947.html?gclid=CMCrnOPmosMCFezKtAodOngA6A

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I think salomon Z10's fit the same runner - could get a temporary fix by speaking to ski rental shops as all such shops will have some spares knocking about.

After all it is free

@vicmarc927, @Charliee, is correct, the XTo12 is a rebadged z10 or z12 salomon powerrail binding. They come up on ebay quite often and a salomon shop should be able to get them for you. But have you damaged the rail?

Look here at page 23

http://www.salomoncertification.com/manuals/Shop_Practices_Manual_2014_15.pdf

I've got a pair of XTO 12s which I don't need anymore. They are still on a pair of Atomic Race skis which have hardly any edge left. Get in touch if you want to make me an offer....

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Hello. I had your same problem last week: while skiing on my Blackeyes, one of the XTO 12 bindings suddently collapsed. I've tried to contact Atomic but they're not providing any assistance, in addition I am not able to find the binding online. How did you solve your problem?

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Hello..interesting to hear of these issues. Had similar complete failure of XTO 12 on 2013 Atomic Nomad Crimsons..in Feb 2014 heel section area ripped out whilst cruising down a blue..really strange realising it was happening....massive crash..quite shocking looking back uphill seeing bits of binding sliding down. Bode Miller would have been fine but not I.Local ski shop put salomon binding on. Works fine but have lost confidence in XTO binding.

Bindings made by Salomon used to have a 5 year guarantee. No questions asked. I broke one a few years ago. No shops could help, including who I bought them from. I eventually got a number for someone inside Salomon UK who simply checked the model out for me and sent me a brand new pair. They didn't even ask to see the old ones.

You know it makes sense.

@cinco88, With the thread being nearly two years old, you might be better sending a PM to RobW to get an answer

Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

Which is the salomon binding that fit? Z12? or also Z10?

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I had a pair of Atomic Beta-Rides when they first came out. They were fitted with the Atomic-branded bindings, made by another company, cannot remember which one. The spring on the rear binding broke, leading to a rather nasty fall.

The local Atomic distributor would only agree to replace the broken rear binding. Sounds reasonable, but... he did not have an identical binding, so was going to give me another model, with different DIN range. Fortunately, the ski shop came to the rescue and I got a complete replacement for minimal cost.

I had since stayed away from Atomic, and have heard of others having the same problem with those bindings. That was many years ago. Seems like Atomic is still having issues.

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[quote="cinco88"]Which is the salomon binding that fit? Z12? or also Z10?

Hard to tell as it was an old Salomon binding culled from ex rental skis so no discernible marks/numbers... just been looking at them and from images on net looks like z12. Puzzled

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@Skimamabananna,

I don't know if they are any use to you but I have a new pair of Atomic XT12 bindings which I had taken off a new pair of Atomic Redster skis. The bindings simply slide onto the rails which have been removed from the skis. Each rail is screwed onto the ski with 8 screws.

I don't know if the XT12s (2019/2020) are anything like the XTO 12s.

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