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Distress Call from Mechanic Luke's Shifter Repair
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UPDATE: Mechanic Luke is a foreign mechanic and no longer staying because VISA was due mid April, 2019. It is still under progress to take cases internationally. Currently if you want to fix the shifter, you have to post to Taiwan to be processed. Alternatively, a contact in Sydey is able to deal with logistic between Australia and Taiwan. Turnaround now may take weeks.
UPDATE: The repair on the last day of Novermber 2018 is the very first case I have to salvage parts from a working shifter to revive a DURA-ACE lever. I hence have to do another price hike to compensate the cost on donor parts and extra work.
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As donor parts are getting scarce, shifter repair has now become more difficult and takes much longer.
If you have any faulty shifters sitting around, please list your shifter online. If you happand to need my repair service, please ask your local shop if they have any damaged shifter to sell.
When I started repairing shifters few years ago, I merely got several shifters a year and they only need an oil-bath or foreign object removal. Since this summer of 2018, the repair cases skyrocket. I now pretty much repair one shifter per week and most repair require parts replacing. I've seen more and more SHIMANO 10-speed shifters fail due to broken spring and need donor parts to fix. My theory is these shifters are due to their lifespan after 10 years.
A faulty shifter often leads to unwanted, reluctant system upgrade due to parts no longer available/compatible, or simply not economical to replace. Oftentime the repair ends up more than a couple hundreds on parts plus labour. Do not forget, to upgrade to 11-speed, a compatible rear wheel is often required, hence the high expense snowballed from a shifter failleur.
I'd like to ask fellow cyclists to put your faulty parts online so others can buy it as donor parts. Sufficient donor parts will only benifit the rider's community.
Mechanic Luke's shifter repair pricing as follows:
DURA-ACE: $100 per lever
ULTEGRA: $80 per lever
105, TIAGRA: $60 per lever
If any donor parts required: $20
Other road levers: negotiable from $50 per lever
MTB lever: $40 per lever
Postage: $10 Auspost express.
Mechanic Luke repair shifters on a NO-FIX-NO-FEE basis.
SHIMANO shifters are mostly serviceable if no broken parts.
Issues caused by contaminated internal or jammed by foreign object can be repaired and the chance of success is high.
In some cases, the gear internal, ratchet paw is broken, then it's beyond repair due to no spare parts available. This happens a lot on ST-5600-L, ST-4500-L due to incorrect front limit/tension setup.
Again it's NO-FIX-NO-FEE.
I'm from Croydon, VIC
UPDATE: The repair on the last day of Novermber 2018 is the very first case I have to salvage parts from a working shifter to revive a DURA-ACE lever. I hence have to do another price hike to compensate the cost on donor parts and extra work.
------------------------------------------
As donor parts are getting scarce, shifter repair has now become more difficult and takes much longer.
If you have any faulty shifters sitting around, please list your shifter online. If you happand to need my repair service, please ask your local shop if they have any damaged shifter to sell.
When I started repairing shifters few years ago, I merely got several shifters a year and they only need an oil-bath or foreign object removal. Since this summer of 2018, the repair cases skyrocket. I now pretty much repair one shifter per week and most repair require parts replacing. I've seen more and more SHIMANO 10-speed shifters fail due to broken spring and need donor parts to fix. My theory is these shifters are due to their lifespan after 10 years.
A faulty shifter often leads to unwanted, reluctant system upgrade due to parts no longer available/compatible, or simply not economical to replace. Oftentime the repair ends up more than a couple hundreds on parts plus labour. Do not forget, to upgrade to 11-speed, a compatible rear wheel is often required, hence the high expense snowballed from a shifter failleur.
I'd like to ask fellow cyclists to put your faulty parts online so others can buy it as donor parts. Sufficient donor parts will only benifit the rider's community.
Mechanic Luke's shifter repair pricing as follows:
DURA-ACE: $100 per lever
ULTEGRA: $80 per lever
105, TIAGRA: $60 per lever
If any donor parts required: $20
Other road levers: negotiable from $50 per lever
MTB lever: $40 per lever
Postage: $10 Auspost express.
Mechanic Luke repair shifters on a NO-FIX-NO-FEE basis.
SHIMANO shifters are mostly serviceable if no broken parts.
Issues caused by contaminated internal or jammed by foreign object can be repaired and the chance of success is high.
In some cases, the gear internal, ratchet paw is broken, then it's beyond repair due to no spare parts available. This happens a lot on ST-5600-L, ST-4500-L due to incorrect front limit/tension setup.
Again it's NO-FIX-NO-FEE.
I'm from Croydon, VIC
- Date Listed:27/11/2018
- Last Edited:06/05/2019
- Condition:Used
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