My new Colt Cobra just broke AGAIN!!!

[Mark_Mark]

There are Millions of Old Colts needing a home! with Boomer off loading there collections… Get the Real Colt! hand fitted and smooth like ice

 

[Paul7]

There are Millions of Old Colts needing a home! with Boomer off loading there collections… Get the Real Colt! hand fitted and smooth like ice

Exactly, I'm done with new Colt's also, my last two new 1911s from them both had to go back to the factory several times and still weren't right. Too many great used ones out there to waste money on current garbage.

 

[UncleEd]

It's been said that imitation is the sincerest form
of flattery.

Well, numerous manufacturers across
the world have imitated in large degree the S&W
revolver lockwork.

I don't believe any imitators have really copied the
Colt lockwork in any great way.

But in the new Pythons, Colt did copy perfectly
the S&W cylinder bolt/stop design, giving up on
one of its 19th Century Rube Goldberg designs.

However at heart Colt maintained the old V-spring
(now referred to as a U-spring for snappier trigger
return) in its new Cobra/Python offerings.

Still, I wish the OP well and hope the gun is satisfactorily
taken care of by Colt. I believe it will be.

More revolvers from Smith, Ruger and Colt are always
welcome.

 

[TriTone]

Wow, what a bummer

I have a new KC that doesn’t hit POA and now I’m debating even attempting to have colt adjust it or just offload it. It’s a beautiful piece of machinery so it’s sad to hear their CS is terrible. If I’d had known I wouldn’t have traded my SP101 for it. I guess that colt 1911 I was going to get is off the table now.

doesn’t CZ own Colt now? If so, I wonder if reaching out to CZ about the colt customer service has any merit…

 

[243winxb]

Colts are "Safe Queens" not to be shot.

My 1970s 357 Trooper failed. Fixed and sold, after 2 trips back to Colt.

 

[KarateHottie93]

Wow, what a bummer

I have a new KC that doesn’t hit POA and now I’m debating even attempting to have colt adjust it or just offload it. It’s a beautiful piece of machinery so it’s sad to hear their CS is terrible. If I’d had known I wouldn’t have traded my SP101 for it. I guess that colt 1911 I was going to get is off the table now.

doesn’t CZ own Colt now? If so, I wonder if reaching out to CZ about the colt customer service has any merit…

I thought about reaching out to them. I also have a RAMI so I'm their customer too.

 

[fastbolt]

To be fair, consider it's like Colt is having to rediscover their DA revolver manufacturing methods now that they've returned to making them. New designs and manufacturing methods.

 

[KarateHottie93]

To be fair, consider it's like Colt is having to rediscover their DA revolver manufacturing methods now that they've returned to making them. New designs and manufacturing methods.

I mean I've made countless threads standing up for them. I've commented on countless bad experience videos standing up for them. It just gets to point where it's too much though.

They have to know they're using cheap parts that are prone to breakage by now...which is fine, but charge a fair price for it in that case or make parts available so people can repair the items they spent their money on instead of having to send it back to Colt, wait three times as long as with any other manufacturer, pay a huge premium, and get something back that will just break again.

Either that or extend the warranty for longer than a year. This is ridiculous. I get that certain parts like the mainspring/hammer need to be matched to fit. If parts were available though, it probably wouldn't take that long to find a match for those things. It's the luck of the draw but at the end of they day, they're still made to the exact same specs.

Everything else though like the return spring, ejector latch spring, transfer bar, etc are all relatively universal.

The hand usually is too assuming there's no manufacturing defects to cause lockup issues...which is another thing I forgot to mention. Mine wouldn't lock up in single action when slow cocked at first. I just lived with it until they fixed it during the first RMA.

 

[Palladan44]

Crumby steel in that spring, I'm sure they are outsourced. Sucks, but only as good as the weakest link. In general, the New Colts are awesome in my experience....... now that I've said that, I'll hear a couple muffled "pops" from the safe......

 

[KarateHottie93]

I just found that their old [email protected] email is still valid. Of course they don't mention it on their support page. I emailed them and got an automatic reply back.

This screenshot here shows an interesting part about a "Service Agreement" for firearms that are out of warranty, assuming the issues are due to manufacturing defects.

I'm hoping mine falls under that. I mean there's countless reports online of this part breaking.

I mean at this point I feel like there should be a recall.

 

[shoebox1.1]

I need to take mine back out. Maybe I sell it off and get a 686 I’m lusting after!

 

[Mark_Mark]

I just found that their old [email protected] email is still valid. Of course they don't mention it on their support page. I emailed them and got an automatic reply back.

This screenshot here shows an interesting part about a "Service Agreement" for firearms that are out of warranty, assuming the issues are due to manufacturing defects.

I'm hoping mine falls under that. I mean there's countless reports online of this part breaking.

I mean at this point I feel like there should be a recall.

1 year warranty? wow that’s a short period. I don’t shoot guns sometimes for years after I buy it. High Point has a better warranty cost like 1/8th the price

 

[1KPerDay]

This makes me sick. Colt used to be a good company. People are still very brand-loyal (including me). It's sad to see the decline in quality and customer service.

 

[Mark_Mark]

This makes me sick. Colt used to be a good company. People are still very brand-loyal (including me). It's sad to see the decline in quality and customer service.

I’m new to Colt, but I think it would be $3k-$5k to build guns like the use to. The action on old Colt revolver are as good as a Korth. They did a accuracy comparison between a Colt Officer Match and a Korth. Colt ran circles around the German Korth. Let me find the video.

 

[Mark_Mark]

here’s the video:

 

[UncleEd]

Mark Mark,

In the video lead ammo was used and no discussion came
up about the differences in rifling twist between the
Colt Officer and Korth.

Without knowing the details. I'd say the Colt was set up for
lead ammo and the Korth for jacketed magnum ammo.

Or to put it in automotive context, which car runs better on
regular gas and which on high test.

Also more needed to be discussed about handling the two,
one in SA and one in DA as they were set up to do. A superb
DA trigger will allow better results often times than in SA mode.

I dismiss his boring video out of hand because of its
superficiality.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Mark Mark,

In the video lead ammo was used and no discussion came
up about the differences in rifling twist between the
Colt Officer and Korth.

Without knowing the details. I'd say the Colt was set up for
lead ammo and the Korth for jacketed magnum ammo.

Or to put it in automotive context, which car runs better on
regular gas and which on high test.

I dismiss his boring video out of hand because of its
superficiality.

you also have to put into account who the driver is! I’m mostly a bus driver

 

[Paul7]

here’s the video:

Having owned both, I'd say that was an outlier, nor normal

 

[Palladan44]

I'm a Colt fan. I love the richness of the brand.......but the history of the corporation is very, very UGLY. From family disagreement, to nepitism, to being bought by literally a dozen different investment corporations and conglomerates which have literally liquidated and bankrupted the company many times over again, any other company would have been out of business and forgotten about.....but not Colt, just because of the name....
All this aside, it's now owned by CZ......the best damn parent company Colt has EVER had.
Their products are high quality today, but of course as you know no product is perfect.....need to have good service to back up any product, and it sounds like they're being a little slow on this one.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Having owned both, I'd say that was an outlier, nor normal

I got a Officer Match coming in any day now! perfect condition in the Oak display box. $800!

can’t wait

 

[Mark_Mark]

I'm a Colt fan. I love the richness of the brand.......but the history of the corporation is very, very UGLY. From family disagreement, to nepitism, to being bought by literally a dozen different investment corporations and conglomerates which have literally liquidated and bankrupted the company many times over again, any other company would have been out of business and forgotten about.....but not Colt, just because of the name....
All this aside, it's now owned by CZ......the best damn parent company Colt has EVER had.
Their products are high quality today, but of course as you know no product is perfect.....need to have good service to back up any product, and it sounds like they're being a little slow on this one.

i’m going to wait till they have a longer warranty, lifetime is standard for gun in that price range

 

[Stevel]

Perhaps the initial warranty issue was not trading in the spring, but a non-gunsmith / factory installing it. If the gun went to Colt for the install they would've fitted the spring.

What concerns me is a 25 cent coil spring failing on "countless" guns made for self defense. That is not a technically difficult part to manufacture or get the metallurgy correct on.

 

[I6turbo]

Sorry to hear of the OP's troubles and also others who have had similar. That said, I would be optimistic that CZ might straighten Colt out in time (I have/have had a lot of CZ and BRNO guns, and all have been very good, only one issue that needed factory attention out of more than 35 examples. CZ customer service tends to be quite good, based upon accounts I've read online over the past 10+ years, so perhaps they'll improve Colt CS for existing issues...

 

[Riomouse911]

Man, that stinks. I love my new Cobra, the gun shoots amazingly well for me and it is in my HD cadre of handguns.

I have not had one issue with mine, it has been 100% good to go since day one. Hearing that you were having to deal with two separate issues involving failed internals, in such a short period of time, is really disappointing.

I hope the latest broken spring gets fixed to your satisfaction and Czolt can get it together and fix these ailments before everyone who wants one sours on the brand and it goes kaput…again.

Stay safe.

 

[KarateHottie93]

Also I found the original email from years ago where I voided my warranty in exchange for a new mainspring...taking the chance that it would fit. Again, they did repair it for free after this incident when the hammer broke so there's that. Maybe it was a good deed but honestly I think it was just a matter of someone not filing something. When I finally send it in the guy on the phone did tell me that they'd mail out the invoice and that repairs would not be covered under warranty. After 10 weeks when I called to ask about the whereabouts of my invoice they were like "oh no it's free because this firearm is under warranty for a year" so I have no idea.

Either way it's well past it now. I was fully willing to pay for that RMA as I knowingly took said risk. What matters is that after that RMA (where Colt made sure everything was to their quality and standards), it's failed again at a different part and I can assure you it's not been mistreated or abused. It's literally just sat in a holster. The return spring isn't even under constant tension.