How much does your shop charge to mount your bindings?

TimersMix

TimersMix

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How much does your shop charge you to mount your bindings? Ive found a few old threads from like 10 years ago but was wondering if it has changed.
 
$70, unless you buy skis, then it's $0. Quite a ripoff imo

There's another store in town that charges $50, but that was unknown to me until recently

Remounts are $30
 
Mounting your own bindings are mind numbingly easy. Just take your time and measure twice. Please pass this along.
 
$50 if you didn't buy any hardgoods from us, $25 if you bought just boots/ski/or bindings, and $0 if you bought two of the before mentioned.
 
I think it's like 30$ or so. I wouldn't worry too much about the price if its $25 or $50 or whatever so long as you don't get dicked around and they know what they are doing. Make sure you get them to commit to doing it at a specific time when you are waiting and can watch. You don't want to leave your skis at the shop or they might just let some random drunk do it when they are partying at night or they might put in extra holes and try to hide them who knows. Also it's just super lame and horrible customer service to expect a customer to make multiple trips for just a binding mount. It really only takes like 15 minutes or so to mount your skis so they should set you an appointment.
 
13996600:SoAnG said:
Mounting your own bindings are mind numbingly easy. Just take your time and measure twice. Please pass this along.
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Did you try it on some old skis first when you were learning? Do you use paper guides?
 
I think 40-50 bucks is

A reasonable price as long as they are on point and arent some jackass liberal who flunked high school geometry.

It matters alot to get your shit done right so make sure you go to the right place and forget the cost
 
13996856:TimersMix said:
Did you try it on some old skis first when you were learning? Do you use paper guides?
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Mounted brand new ON3P kartels as my first try and yes to paper guides. I purchased a ski specific drill bit and binding glue from Tognar.com for all of 20 dollars. It won't let you drill through the base so no worries there. Just make sure the paper templates are at the correct scale which is also very easy because there's a measurement on it to verify. There are how to videos on YT with detailed step by step as well. I wouldn't even suggest mounting your own skis if it wasn't stupid easy and greed with over charging.

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I wouldn’t let a shop mount my skis even if they gave me $10. Learn to mount your own gear, and you’ll never pay a shop again. It isn’t some magical process. It just takes a little time, a few cheap tools, and a small amount of brain power. You wouldn’t let another dude bang your chick. So why would you let another man touch your skis? Not me.
 
Free if you buy skis or bindings from us. $80 for new mounts $100 for re mounts.

Got to fight online retailers some how. Jigs aren’t cheap.
 
2/3 shops around me cost 70 dollars which I think is a total rip off. Especially if you ask the shop not to take a week to get your skis back to you and they act like it’s pulling teeth.

One shop costs 30 and will get you your skis back the same day you bring them in.

Gonna learn how to mount my own shit because honestly fuck paying shops and going without your skis when I can just do it myself.
 
13997056:Xx_Ac1dTr1p_xX said:
$100

Nz fucking sucks
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Is this NZD or USD cause that must be a north island problem, the most expensive shop in Canterbury is $60NZD($40USD). And I thought I was getting ripped off Although quiver killers will cost you about $140 ($95USD)
 
I live where there are no good ski shops so I get mine mounted at REI. If you buy either the ski or binding from their website they mount for like $20 which isn’t bad at all compared to the $90 quote I got from the closest ski shop

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13997051:TimersMix said:
Has anyone heard of or use jigarex?
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Yes, but no personally. One shop screwed up my mount. Did a ton of research on bit sizes and glue and screw torque. Went to another local snow board shop and they had a jigarex. I was with the shop owner (I was paranoid and had to supervise ) when we re mounted my heel piece. Jigarex seemed to work well and was sooo beneficial to me because we just used a heel

Plate, and didn’t have to take my toe piece off as well (if that makes any sense). Where’s a normal jig you have to take the whole binding off to fit the jig

Jigarex seems like a good system but of course costs extra money.
 
13996867:Hansel9001 said:
I think 40-50 bucks is

A reasonable price as long as they are on point and arent some jackass liberal who flunked high school geometry.

It matters alot to get your shit done right so make sure you go to the right place and forget the cost
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Haha, libs..
 
13997727:K-Dot. said:
honest question for those who self mount, how do you test the reliability of your release?
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Honest answer, I don't. With that being said, none of my mounts act/release any different then the shop mounts.
 
13997056:Xx_Ac1dTr1p_xX said:
$100

Nz fucking sucks

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Doesn't it cost you closer to like $500 since every time they mount your skis they do it backwards and have to buy new skis?
 
My ski shop charged me 45 when I bought skis and bindings from them, they said if I just brought in my own skis and bindings it will be closer to 120 though
 
13997727:K-Dot. said:
honest question for those who self mount, how do you test the reliability of your release?
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I've worked (albeit a few years ago) in a very reputable shop in France, and they didn't even perform an official release test at the time. They'd just mount the bindings according to the tech guide (each binding has a visual indicator to adjust forward pressure). To my knowledge they never had any issues, I'm thinking as long as you mount them according to the binding guidelines, then only a binding defect would prevent them from releasing correctly, which would be the manufacturer's fault, and not the shop, but who knows. Anyway, my point is that as long as you mount and set the bindings correctly according to the manufacturer's guidelines, the odds of it not releasing correctly are pretty slim. Not saying it would never happen, but pretty slim odds, it's all about your personal risk tolerance I guess.

That being said, you can also manually test release by clicking in on a carpet and making sure it release by applying pressure and torsion on the boot, there are a few ways to test it at home.
 
13997727:K-Dot. said:
honest question for those who self mount, how do you test the reliability of your release?
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Same as I would if the shop does it. I click the boots in on the ground, nose press, tail press and kick the edges on the ground. I ski with a slightly lower Din than normal until satisfied everything is working right.
 
13998836:skiP.E.I. said:
Same as I would if the shop does it. I click the boots in on the ground, nose press, tail press and kick the edges on the ground. I ski with a slightly lower Din than normal until satisfied everything is working right.
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Shops have machines that test it
 
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