gillyske
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So upfront, I don't service my own forks. I don't wanna deal with oil disposal etc.
So I have a Manitou Mattoc Pro 2 in which the dampener has basically just stopped working at all after a service.
Story goes like this. A while back I took my bike to get serviced before a weekend to Bright. The mechanic mentions to me that he's never serviced a Mattoc before but is confident he can do it and has serviced Manitou products before.
Day comes to get my bike back and mechanic mentions that my lockout doesn't work. I advised the Mattoc doesn't really have a lockout, it sorta just gets stiffer.
I arrive to the store and apparently my fork no longer extends all the way? I see him put 300psi into this thing to try and get it to extend. I advise that I think the fork has a positive and negative air chamber and that might be causing it to not extend when the pump is attached? Eventually it extends, but the fork's dampener isnt working at all.
It's basically like it is stuck in full open position. The rebound works, but thats it.
Mechanic says he had set the right oil level and made sure everything was in place properly.
I dunno people rate him on this forum so I gotta trust that?
No other mechanic in Melbourne will touch this fork, they all wanna ship to it either Taiwan, NZ or QLD and maybe they could look at it? I'm looking at $300 minimum for someone to just take a peek at it. I could have bought a new one of these for $450 haha. If I wanna open it up and take a look at it myself I need to get a manitou tool kit thats $100?
It's outta warranty so Manitou don't wanna deal with me either.
So yeah never fucking again. Fork performed well when it worked though.
So I have a Manitou Mattoc Pro 2 in which the dampener has basically just stopped working at all after a service.
Story goes like this. A while back I took my bike to get serviced before a weekend to Bright. The mechanic mentions to me that he's never serviced a Mattoc before but is confident he can do it and has serviced Manitou products before.
Day comes to get my bike back and mechanic mentions that my lockout doesn't work. I advised the Mattoc doesn't really have a lockout, it sorta just gets stiffer.
I arrive to the store and apparently my fork no longer extends all the way? I see him put 300psi into this thing to try and get it to extend. I advise that I think the fork has a positive and negative air chamber and that might be causing it to not extend when the pump is attached? Eventually it extends, but the fork's dampener isnt working at all.
It's basically like it is stuck in full open position. The rebound works, but thats it.
Mechanic says he had set the right oil level and made sure everything was in place properly.
I dunno people rate him on this forum so I gotta trust that?
No other mechanic in Melbourne will touch this fork, they all wanna ship to it either Taiwan, NZ or QLD and maybe they could look at it? I'm looking at $300 minimum for someone to just take a peek at it. I could have bought a new one of these for $450 haha. If I wanna open it up and take a look at it myself I need to get a manitou tool kit thats $100?
It's outta warranty so Manitou don't wanna deal with me either.
So yeah never fucking again. Fork performed well when it worked though.