Finally got my fork+shock back from Fox East. Its been 6 weeks total from the day i kicked it in the mail to back in my hands. It's been a rough not having the Ibis in service with the beautiful weather lately but we back in business now.
I was trying to figure out a way to game the system by determining if subassembly replacement would be similarly priced to the service. For the fork, upgrading the entire damper from a Fit4 to a Grip2 to avoid breaking down the damper stack plus basic seals and fluids is acutally pretty close, especially if you consider the end result is ostensibly a better fork. However, for the shock, there's some things one just cannot even do like nitrogen fill the ifp for a total, deep rebuild.It's why I try to do the maintenance during the winter. Or myself.
Yeah. But depending on usage, it's not a big deal to do a general seal kit on the rear shock mid-season, and send it out for a full service over the winter.I was trying to figure out a way to game the system by determining if subassembly replacement would be similarly priced to the service. For the fork, upgrading the entire damper from a Fit4 to a Grip2 to avoid breaking down the damper stack plus basic seals and fluids is acutally pretty close, especially if you consider the end result is ostensibly a better fork. However, for the shock, there's some things one just cannot even do like nitrogen fill the ifp for a total, deep rebuild.