 Poster: A snowHead
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Salomon MTN binding - product recall - May 2022 to March 2023 production models.
This one seems to have come out very quietly (certainly compared to a maufacturer of climbing equipment who I work with who are very good at handling product recalls...).
https://www.salomon.com/en-gb/safety-notice
I am a huge fan of the MTN binding having skied them since they first were released, but did have one (from the production runs concerned by the recall) fail on me last March, very fortunately in a non-serious location.
A bit of a shame that Salomon seem to have kept this under the radar... When mine broke a friend of mine who is a Salomon ambassador told me that some of the French pro riders had had problems from early last winter. Seems like good fortune to me that noone died as a result of a binding failure, given the places that people will ski with these...
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Sat 28-10-23 10:58; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Not under the radar at all. All Salomon retailers have been advised by email that required a read receipt. Salomon know which retailers had effected bindings so they also got a call from their rep. And the retailers (should) then know who purchased the bindings from them so can contact them. Only a few of these bindings are sold in the UK and IIRC none of them were affected. None of mine were.
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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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| spyderjon wrote: |
| Not under the radar at all. All Salomon retailers have been advised by email that required a read receipt. Salomon know which retailers had effected bindings so they also got a call from their rep. And the retailers (should) then know who purchased the bindings from them so can contact them. Only a few of these bindings are sold in the UK and IIRC none of them were affected. None of mine were. |
OK maybe not under the radar for retailers, but certainly from a client point of view... (I don't know anyone in out here in France who has had a call/message about their bindings).
It also seems to me that the response time was very slow, given that the problem was known about already middle of last winter...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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That is interesting. I have Meidjo 3.0 bindings and they just have a single spring, previous version had a very similar double spring.
A ski was knocked over, landing on the jaw on tarmac rather than snow. The rod broke off exactly as shown in the pic. Luckily after last run of the trip whilst washing salt off skis.
It was simple enough to fit a new jaw once I had replacement parts.
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Same issue with phantom tech toes for split boards- which are re branded Salomon on an adapter plate I think.
I have had this happen on a couple of sets, but less consequential for a splitboard, given it's only used for going up. Pain in the back bottom though.
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