Armada reliability

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rybar37

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I have a pair of AR5 Armadas and after only three years of easy skiing with them the top sheet is splitting from the base and they are ruined. I have taken them to ski shops and nobody can guarantee me that they can repair them with them staying glued together. Has anybody else here had any problems with their Armada skis?
 
3 years. Maybe is the good time to change skis ( if you use those ski often it is normal that that thing happened)
 
I have had the AR5's for about three years now, mine are reliable, but I got some 9thwards this year mostly because I out grew the AR5s
 
my normal ski lifetime for a park ski is a year or less, they always seem to splitif your just skiing normally though, should be like 3 years, so ya, id get a new pair
 
the ar6s were actually created in nagasaki back in world war 2, they survived the a-bomb and now armada has generously released them to the public after over a half-century of confidentiality
 
yeah, 3 years out of a ski is pretty good, unless you count the old black and white mad_trix... they were good for much longer than that.
 
dude you say easy skiing but what dose that mean for you and also armada has a good top sheet but it will wear away after a good amount of time or murder on the ski
 
I have been riding the same skis and have put them through some horrible stuff. Still in riding them, still liking them.
 
yeah sorry i didn't elaborate on what i meant by "easy riding" what i meant by that is no more than 540's and the occasion rails...
 
Oh, well okay then, if it's only 540s, they should last you at least 42 months. If you were doing 900s, they would only last 14 and a half months... I consulted my chart on ski durability. Are you actually serious? You're repeatedly slamming them into the ground and grinding them on metal bars, of course they're going to fall apart eventually. And 3 years is some pretty damned solid longevity. After 50 days on snow on the feet of someone who skis a lot (and assumedly fairly well), a pair of sticks is essentially kindling. Be glad you got your 3 years, and stay loyal to Armada, because it's not often you'll get that kind of term out of your skis (not to mention they're even better now than they were when the last gen of Ar5s was made).
 
with all that flexing and temperature change you gotta expect the glue inside the skis to start breaking down. my skis get around 100 days old and they die...

I think it would be nice if they weren't so damn expensive though...
 
man what kind of skiing do you do? to kill 2 pairs in a season is ridiculous. i consider myself hard on my skis, lots of ontario ice, and other then cracked edges, some top sheet chips and the usual flopiness the skis are still gold in the park
 
unfortunately the old saying is true, "they just don't make em like they used to" no matter what a ski company says about the durability, park skis are not made to handle three or four (or sometimes one) years of abuse in the park, that way the company sells more skis.
 
i DONT agree
skis companies don't make skis to fail to get more business. ski companies try to make the strongest ski possible, but when they try to make a ski affordable and light they cant hold up to the kind of skiing us kids do.
 
i disagree. were slamming our skis onto metal bars, and throwing them off 50-70 foot jumps and landing on them. thats a lot of abuse to handle. 3 years is impressive.
 
i used my ar5s for two seasons and they are completely shot now.. using them last season was stretching it but i was tight on money. but this year i picked up some salomons over armada because when you buy them with salomon bindings it extends the warranty to 2 full years after purchase. i guarantee that will come in useful
 
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