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Giving my Scott Scale the once-over this evening, I noticed the lacquer is stating to peel around the head tube. A bit gutted,as the bike is about 4 weeks old! How do you think Scott will deal with this? I'm hoping they don't tell me to "do-one" - if its like this after a month, its gonna look a right mess after 6 months!!
[img] https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-0s9ynXaUOUs/T3zBjxjMzeI/AAAAAAAAEI0/nsIolfh_BFY/w374-h500-k/2012-04-04 [/img]
Sale of goods act - return it to the shop. repair/ replace / refund your choice. Fitness for purpose includes cosmetic issues
(not that I can see anything that would bother me in that pic)
Is that not cable rub??
Similar thing happened to my 4 year old Specialized.
Spesh gave me a new, upgraded frame for free.
Hopefully Scott would do the same...
its your own fault vings, if you slow the pace of your riding, then the wind resistance at speed which is making the lacqeur peel would reduce thus saving any future damage. As you well know I've always used the 'slow is best' method for retaining perfect paint jobs on my bikes.
on a serious note thats not great bud, it looked reet nice the other day too..
local well known massive bike shop purchase? they should sort it?
Scott will sort that out for you - they're warranty, in my experience, is fantastic.
I had a similar thing on my 2010 FSR. Started with one or two blisters and rapidly got worse.
The shop took it back in but were a bit dubious about what I'd get from Specialized, as it "is a mountain bike and gets stone chips". but it was a known problem with the lacquer on that particular bike, so Specialized replaced it without fuss.
They had no more alu frames in stock so I'd either have to wait for the 2011 one, or pay £50 to upgrade to the carbon frame with Brain shock thing. So I did that....