Is this possible 3 dives after having equipment serviced????

[Lorraine Mooney]

Also what bcd? This ordeal seems a little much to replace a $20 inflator that takes 15 minutes at home the first time.

Cressi Travelight. I am not a technician. I had been on a long trip and thought it wise to have it serviced as per manufacturer’s advice.

 

[Lorraine Mooney]

No I don't quite understand at all

Next time find some more professional professionals and guests that are more perplexed
and you can all get down and dirty, and learn, how to diagnose and repair your own stuff

The woman at the shop wouldn’t shut up about how good and professional they were, she was’like a broken record…..same in the replies I have had from them; blah, blah, blah…..I was going by the reviews on Google, as there is not a huge choice where I live.

 

[Lorraine Mooney]

Lots of people get their gear serviced annually, even though they only did a relative handful of dives. The manufacturers push that hard, and people follow that push. Most of the time the service really isn't needed, but it doesn't hurt, does it?

When I had a regulator go bad during a liveaboard trip trip years ago, right after getting it back from its annual servicing (which I never missed), I was surprised. The shop I used did not service that brand of regulator, so they sent it back to a guy in another whop who did those for him. It came back and failed again. We sent it to the manufacturer (Mares), and they said the problem was that it had been far too many years since it had been serviced. They wondered if it had ever been serviced.

Eventually the problem became clear. Knowing that most regulators coming in for annual servicing do not really need it, the technician at that other shop routinely held on to regs for a couple weeks and then returned them without doing a blessed thing to them.

I had done perhaps 100 dives in the year and had been in Indonesia for a long trip when my BCD started playing up. I just thought it would be wise to have it serviced.

 

[Valerii Vakshul]

:-(crying:

 

[USdiver1]

It keeps divers visiting the shop. And once your gear is 5 years old (if that) you start being told it’s “too old” and needs to be replaced. So … more sales, not just for the shop, but for manufacturers too.

Maybe I’m just cynical …

Don't forget us vintage equipment vultures, we need old gear too.

 

[Edward3c]

I li

I live in the French Alps on the border with Switzerland.

Then change your profile to show your current location, then you'll get advice relative to where you live.

 

[Lorraine Mooney]

I recommend either of the following:

1) E-mail them that you are going to mail in the BCD, that you will be tracking the package and you expect an e-mail confirmation when they receive it and when they have correctly completed the work you have already paid for. State that you only want to communicate via e-mail.

2) Chalk it up as a loss and take it somewhere else.

Thanks, am thinking of the latter tbh….

 

[Lorraine Mooney]

Then change your profile to show your current location, then you'll get advice relative to where you live.

I am not looking for advice as to where to take my gear for servicing in my area, if I was, I would have asked. My current location is my business.

 

[Lorraine Mooney]

No I don't quite understand at all

Next time find some more professional professionals and guests that are more perplexed
and you can all get down and dirty, and learn, how to diagnose and repair your own stuff

Also what bcd? This ordeal seems a little much to replace a $20 inflator that takes 15 minutes at home the first time.

So, I should not have taken for a professional service? I took it as I had dived quite a bit in Indonesia and wanted it professionally serviced as per manufacturer. I paid for a professional service not a DIY job.

 

[Edward3c]

I am not looking for advice as to where to take my gear for servicing in my area, if I was, I would have asked. My current location is my business.

Fair enough.

If you have the equivalent of Trading Standards, it’s worth letting the shop know you’re considering lodging a complaint with them, but you want to give the shop a chance to put thinks right.

Whilst I get my regs serviced, every few years, I strip my BCD down myself. I have a supply of Schrader valves (in the low pressure hose connector to the BCD) which I replace if the hose starts leaking.

A Schrader valve is your car’s tyre valve.