 Poster: A snowHead
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I've got some Lange RX 100 boots, skied in about 14 days so they should be a litle packed down by now.
My right boot is very hard to get on because they're a tight fit - I have to pull the tongue out a long way to be able to slide in.
I'm using custom footbeds and thin socks.
I can basically ski with the 2 lower buckels loose all the time as they are snug but I'm getting pins and needles in my right foot after about 30mins. Loosening the lower leg buckle helps it a bit so I'm guessing this is an issue with room on the top of the foot?
Would it be best to try and soften and remould these or grind out the inside bottom a bit?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Given you have custom footbeds you must have had them professionally fitted in a shop right?
Any reason you can't take them back to be checked/amended?
You know how to put ski boots on the correct way? That could be an issue.
Bottom two buckles should be finger push tight, no more. If you have that, which it sounds like you do and the pins and needles are in the lower foot area then it does sound like a fitting issue.
A shop should certainly be able to address it - it's much easier to expand out a boot than to contract it!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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No longer in the place I bought the boots, and the footbeds are from a previous shop from my first boots so all different places 
The boots are snug enough that I don't even really need to do up the bottom buckles but I do them up lower leg bucklefirst, then top leg, then the foot buckles.
I could take them to a shop sure, just wondering what it might be and whether I can diy anything say with the shell...
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What are the boots like with the original footbeds? :: I had a similar problem using new boots with old custom footbeds ; ended up binning to customs ones and just using the originals..
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I am not a boot fitter but it sounds like it could be that they are cutting circulation a bit. It could also be lack of flexibility in the calf/ankle. Not sure if that model has removable spoilers. If it does, try taking those out and see if it helps
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Some footbeds are thicker than others, the orange superfeet is thicker the blue one.
Trying the ones that came with the boots sounds a good idea to start with.
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could also try heating the thermofit liner again in the oven once to see if ithelps. If not then shell adjustment?
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Go to a bootfitter, I wish, as a bootfitter i could offer advice on the Internet of Things, these guys (above) seem well handy though!!!
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Pins and needles is a blood supply issue, as @Arno, says circulation. To put it another way, your boots are ill fitting.
I don't believe this will be a liner/footbed issue or resolved that way - not if you think about logically.
So I think shell adjustment and therefore a boot fitter.
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Could be the top buckle and power strap acting like a tourniquet and cutting off the blood to your foot. You should be able to loosen the buckle until it improves. It's a bit weird that there is such a difference between your feet, so a remould/tweek could also be in order. I had a similar thing and found that a booster strap helped me to have my boots looser but still retain control. It was fairly simple to fit.
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Tingling can be due to nerve or vessel compression (or cold). My wife's feet went numb due to the plastic on the bottom of the tongue of her bootliner pressing into her nerves. Was a pretty easy fix once we'd worked it out.
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