huh? they’ve fixed your forks but won’t send them back to you? 😉

I got a set last year and they’ve been working well. Think there was a thread on here a couple of months back about compression knocking noise but only over small bumps. The solution from windwave was changing one of the top washers i think. I’ve not been riding as much as i would like so not covered massive number of miles and can hear a quiet knocking but could just be the oil moving around. I’ll find out when they come up for service!

Here is the thread, about half way down there is a post about this (the title states 55 but the comment is about a set of 44). Searching on this forum there is a lot of praise for this fork (and even more for its bigger brother, the 55). And it has reminded me of the extra long warranty and that windwave do a reasonable service at £65.
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my 2010 44 rc3 ti have been brilliant all year they handled 6 enduro races and plenty of rocky abuse superbly

if they did break id happily pay to get them fixed, the ride is just so much better than my floats

I have two pairs of 44 rc3 ti on both my bikes. one 2010 version 140mm and one being 2012 with no issue to date. I would like to try them with the softer spring, other than that their brill. 😀

Hora – i was under the impression the 44 and 55 ti’s were fantastic performers and very reliable.

Every fork can have issues – fox forks for example shed their anodizing as bushings run dry very easily and need plenty of servicing.

My 55ti – no problem so far 🙂

Crankrider I never had those issues and I ride in the peaks. Mazz repairs cost though.

Even RC3’s are disapearing new. Why?

Wonder what dealers say.

Im a lifelong fan of Mazz. Always failed on me.

Yep. Then I got the bill for my 55’s and read a few reviews.

I came accross this thread while googling an answer to my 44 RC3 Ti knocking. They are a second hand pair I bought in near mint condition, and obviously not used and abused. However, they perform superbly as expected, BUT they have an anoying tapping/knocking noise. I had already stripped/cleaned and put in fresh fluid. All looked very nice inside as I was expecting. But I could’nt live with that small but anoying noise. So stripped them again yesterday to see what could be causing the noise. I refitted the lowers into one stancion only at a time and put oil in as needed, and cyled them by hand. No noise from the spring side, but when I did the same on the damping side (no air pres added) and cyled them up and down, I could hear this little tapping noise. Stripped them again and removed the damper assembly. Obviously this had lost most of its oil, and after a few strokes of the damper shaft, it had lost all of it. But I still could’nt find the noise. This is factory sealed (rolled by machine) so can’t be opened, which realy p*%$ed me off. I was very close to sticking it in the lathe and turning the end off to get inside. But I had one last idea to try. I taped up the multiple hole at the bottom of the damper tube that let in/out all the oil. I then cycled the damper rod up and down fast to the air inside was compressed or sucked, and BINGO a tapping noise from a little insert at the top of the damper tube that is held in with a circlip. The little insert was shuttling up and down, and hitting the circlip, making that noise. I will shim the gap to prevent this, and hopefully have a silent fork.

Reading that some folks have paid for a new damper assembly (£200) to cure this was what drove me to try and find a cure (I’m tight)
The good news is its a cheap fix for what should turn out to be a good fork.