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Issues with factions

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skimandan
Posts: 55 - Karma: 664
Ive had my faction prodigy 2.0 for 5 days now and my edge and base under foot has already fallen out, has anyone else had issues with faction skis?
Mar 20 2019 10:28AM
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fratskier69
Posts: 1868 - Karma: 1,271
Pretty common for my friends to break their factions...
Mar 20 2019 10:48AM
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pastysmasher
Posts: 780 - Karma: 664
exact same thing happened to mine. Got a new pair on warranty.
Mar 20 2019 10:52AM
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shin-bang
Posts: 4103 - Karma: 7,001
On my friends pair, top sheets are delamming big time on both tips, and the bases have gotten wrecked, but no edge issues that I can recall.
Mar 20 2019 11:22AM
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LukeTheWaffle
Posts: 1845 - Karma: 8,860
My candides are holding up great, chipping like you'd expect on any ski, and no edge cracks
Mar 20 2019 11:52AM
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MonnorCartin
Posts: 596 - Karma: 2,827
Between ~4 friends I know they've broken at least 15 pairs.
Mar 20 2019 12:11PM
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cinnabonconn
Posts: 250 - Karma: 460
ive had 3 pairs of factions, all the edges fell out right away but at least you don't have to detune them lol. just send in warranties cuz they hand them out like candy halloween. Im about to put in my a warranty for another pair right now actually.
Mar 20 2019 12:16PM
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ReturnToMonkey
Posts: 6420 - Karma: 69,693
Damn why doesn't faction just figure out why their skis fall apart? It would save everyone time, money, and frustration
Mar 20 2019 12:22PM
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JmckR
Posts: 1297 - Karma: 5,822
ZiggyZagSkzzDamn why doesn't faction just figure out why their skis fall apart? It would save everyone time, money, and frustration


was thinking the exact same thing
Mar 20 2019 1:30PM
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Non_State_Actor
Posts: 4899 - Karma: 17,478
LukeTheWaffleMy candides are holding up great, chipping like you'd expect on any ski, and no edge cracks


Which ones? There have been a few pictures of 2.0s snapped right behind the heel piece.
Mar 20 2019 3:57PM
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LukeTheWaffle
Posts: 1845 - Karma: 8,860
mystery3Which ones? There have been a few pictures of 2.0s snapped right behind the heel piece.

2018s, I've got pivot 14s on them
Mar 20 2019 4:09PM
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dwt802
Posts: 3258 - Karma: 32,152
My friend went through like a pair every month, he kept getting them warrantied. It was a cycle.
Mar 20 2019 6:56PM
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-eREKTion-
Posts: 1629 - Karma: 10,937
ZiggyZagSkzzDamn why doesn't faction just figure out why their skis fall apart? It would save everyone time, money, and frustration


They don't control their own production so they might be limited in the construction changes they can make using someone else's tooling.

I work in a shop and we take in a ton of fucked up skis. I wouldn't say that I see more Factions than other brands but I do see a lot of really trashed and relatively new Factions. If you mainly ski all mountain, they're fine but park riders who come in with Factions often have really severe damage.
Mar 20 2019 11:03PM
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Swandog7
Posts: 4955 - Karma: 9,023
ZiggyZagSkzzDamn why doesn't faction just figure out why their skis fall apart? It would save everyone time, money, and frustration


I believe they are switching the factory the prodigy 1.0 and 2.0 for next season
Mar 21 2019 3:05AM
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gak98
Posts: 123 - Karma: 581
Any word if updates have been made for this year on either the prodigy or candide just blew the edge under foot after a week of mainly groomer ripping and then two days later the tail edge on one ski went I really like how the skis ride but like if the durability issues are still present I don't know if I'd want to put my money there again
Dec 21 2019 8:15PM
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.nasty
Posts: 10582 - Karma: 11,181
gak98Any word if updates have been made for this year on either the prodigy or candide just blew the edge under foot after a week of mainly groomer ripping and then two days later the tail edge on one ski went I really like how the skis ride but like if the durability issues are still present I don't know if I'd want to put my money there again


Wait for next year, their going to start making almost all of them in the Fischer factory. Currently the CT 3.0 is made there and it’s very on point. When you hold a 2.0
next to it, the 2.0 is not even close to being as well built.

They’ve been great doing big levels of warranties for customers but that should diminish next year.
Dec 22 2019 1:03AM
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