ShredJesseThanks for the great communication with everybody. It honestly has me looking right at K2 boots, so if you ever gotta justify the time and effort spent here, I'm looking at your stuff right meow!
I'm specifically looking at the K2 BFC 120 BOA boots. I snowboard mostly, but ski when I'm out with intermediate friends so I'm more with the pack or when my wife wants to get out because I need the mobility to go pick her up should she fall down. She's learning etc etc.
Anyways, I was interested in the BOA and big last since I have a wider foot and am after comfort, and you sold me on BOA... but what is concerning to me is the 1 year warranty on a relatively new tech. What's the BOA mechanism warranty like? Where does the BOA warranty end as far as parts? For example the fellow above who got struck and the BOA adjuster broke off, let's say that took the threaded inserts in the boot with it, does the BOA warranty extend all the way to the threads on the boot should? What about the channels the cable goes through on the boot themselves versus how they affix to the boot?
I'm nearly always wary of trying out early year products... both because they're less hammered on by the general public (we're way dumber than your pro athletes) and because as the product gets refined replacement parts that us early adapters will need tend to go away. See magnetic goggle lenses, Burton channel lock system... all that sort of stuff where early adapters got left with unrepairable stuff.
Oh and bonus points if you can tell me about the "apres mode" on those. Not finding anybody who reviewed that yet. Love to know if I can just buy some solid pucks to put in there in the future if the apres mode breaks so I can future proof my boot purchase.
Go see a boot fitter that carries that boot, but find the boot that fits your foot the best and go from there.
The BOA warranty is quite solid, most shops have a BOA parts bin and will be able to fix it for you very fast (if you evene manage to break it). I think last year we had only 2 repairs to be done, and each was over in 5 minutes. The BOA dial is the one designed to break, but it is super easy to press fit back into place, and the cable can be easily re-threaded through it. If the inserts on the broke (which i haven't heard happen) that would probably be an warranty with the boot manufacturer, but that shouldn't happen considering the dial is designed to break out before exploding and being press fit back in. The other thing is if you break the dial off like that while skiing, you probably also have other problems than just a broken boa.
The apres mode just makes you able to stand up a little bit taller (little bit more backwards ROM) and is quite solid.
