My fulltilts are wearing out on the bottom and now they move in my bindings

skimandan

skimandan

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the bottom of my full tilts have been worn down over the past 2 years and now in the toe piece of my bindings the boot and move up and down making my skis always feel loose, is there any fixes to this?? I don't have money for new boots lol
 
Full Tilt sells replacement soles. I'd just buy some and replace. And avoid hiking on rocks and walking through parking lots in them to minimize wear.
 
Agree that you should get replacement heels as they look very worn but there should be some adjustment in your toe piece for height adjustment. You should be able to just slide a business card under the toe of the boot and the anti friction plate on the binding toe piece. The card should go in with some resistance but not too tight that the business card folds over.

What bindings are they and I can see if/how they adjust on the toe.
 
13862752:Greg_K said:
Agree that you should get replacement heels as they look very worn but there should be some adjustment in your toe piece for height adjustment. You should be able to just slide a business card under the toe of the boot and the anti friction plate on the binding toe piece. The card should go in with some resistance but not too tight that the business card folds over.

What bindings are they and I can see if/how they adjust on the toe.
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I did not know you could adjust that that on bindings, they are marker griffons
 
13862749:IsitWinterYet17 said:
Full Tilt sells replacement soles. I'd just buy some and replace. And avoid hiking on rocks and walking through parking lots in them to minimize wear.
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For the boot he has only the heels are replaceable and will not affect the toe height by replacing those. New boots are his best bet
 
Without seeing the boot in person it’s hard to tell if the boot is a write off but definetly the heels need replacement. Bindings automatically adjust for heel height but not forward pressure, so that’s why I’d suggest looking at that as well as adjusting the toe height which is not automatic on those bindings. You should be checking toe height/forward pressure at least once a year to account for boot wear and sometimes even on new boots/bindings it’s not properly at the shop.

On the new skis, the bindings will have to be adjusted for those same boots and will sure be loose at “new boot” height settings.

Right now it’s far more likely for a pre-release to happen, so at MINIMUM adjust toe height and check forward pressure and/or get a shop to do it if they think the soles are still safe to adjust on with new heels.

Btw-new Skis will be awesome!
 
13862810:Greg_K said:
Without seeing the boot in person it’s hard to tell if the boot is a write off but definetly the heels need replacement. Bindings automatically adjust for heel height but not forward pressure, so that’s why I’d suggest looking at that as well as adjusting the toe height which is not automatic on those bindings. You should be checking toe height/forward pressure at least once a year to account for boot wear and sometimes even on new boots/bindings it’s not properly at the shop.

On the new skis, the bindings will have to be adjusted for those same boots and will sure be loose at “new boot” height settings.

Right now it’s far more likely for a pre-release to happen, so at MINIMUM adjust toe height and check forward pressure and/or get a shop to do it if they think the soles are still safe to adjust on with new heels.

Btw-new Skis will be awesome!
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thanks! that was very helpful, yea im excited
 
topic:Daniel2s3ski said:
the bottom of my full tilts have been worn down over the past 2 years and now in the toe piece of my bindings the boot and move up and down making my skis always feel loose, is there any fixes to this?? I don't have money for new boots lol
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As already mentioned, this boot does not really have replaceable soles. If the wear is only on the bottom, you have 2 options:

1. You can get the soles planned flat, have 3mm lifters added, and then have the tops of the toe and heel lugs routered back down to the heights specified by the DIN norm. Most any race-oriented shop can perform this task. This will not be cheap and it will probably run you $150-200 but its the only way to make your worn out boots work properly with bindings.

2. You buy brand new boots.
 
You can replace the rubber heel piece and it will make a fair amount of difference. It sucks the toe wears down eventually though
 
On most markers you'll need an Allen key to adjust the afd height. It's located on behind the afd parallel to your ski. Start cranking that baby the direction you need it to go, until you can slide a business card (or whatever you have access too) just enough to have a little resistance. And btw, I would replace those heelpieces. Look to new boots in the future dawg.
 
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