disclaimer: i love my c.1980's P220, consistent trigger, shoots well, never jammed, eats all variety of ammo. a lovely piece, as long as it is cleaned and well maintained. SIGs breaking? well, any gun can "break", or go "ka-boom" or "FTF" or "FTE", but SIG is in that 'least likely to happen to them' category.
but i'll take a chance on dissention here, since i think the o.p. deserve the benefit of a different experience. and it does pain me to share this....
couple of years ago, i buy a recent SIG model and inside of 6 months, it starts to rust
being anal about my pieces like most of you, i know it wasn't from lack of care & cleaning.
so i call SIG to get it taken care of and the nightmare is just beginning.
over a period of 4 weeks, i place 4 calls to SIG customer service department, on MY dime since they didn't publish an 800 number. and i left 4 messages b/c i got tired of being on hold. there's an option to leave a message and they claim "someone will call you right back"
well, no one ever called me back. and when i finally reached someone, they first wanted to try and pull the "it's outta warranty b/c it sat on the dealers shelf for 3 months before you bought it and that counts as time in terms of covered warranty." ***? not from the time i purchased it, but from the time the dealer gets it?
i stayed cool and argued my point with logic. finally, they relented and agreed to take the pistol for inspection. wait a month, no word, no follow up. then it's, back to the game of attempting to contact them (see above). in the end, it took them nearly 2 months to send back a (refurb'ed) p*o*s to replace my original
rusted SIG. the refurb was send back in a baggie, slathered in grease as though it'd been dunked in a bucket, real nice!
i realize that they did finally do the right thing, replace with new non-warrantied gun. but i've had easier experiences getting chicken bones away from rotweilers than getting satisfaction from SIG "customer service".
i cleaned it up, made sure it was 100% funtional and promptly sold it and i am not looking back.
so, "
what's wrong with SIG?"
they really do make a decent (albeit, relatively
expensive) piece. their quality in recent years is debatable. my opinion is that their quality has indeed dropped off in favor of "innovation", more learned opinions may vary - i don't claim to be an expert.
but their "customer service" is practically non-exisitent, and (for the prices they charge) THAT is what's wrong with SIG.
deal with them at your own risk...but for me; life's too short and my money is too hard earned to be thrown away on that aggrevation.
again, YMMV!
sorry if that went a little long. just wanted to be thorough.
peace!
DC#
