I was really considering the ultra 9 gen 2 until I talked with a local dealer that sells tons of suppressors.
They gave me the low down on the recall and its a bigger deal than I'd imagined.. they sent all theirs back and apparently people will have to wait a Looooong time for a few that have to be destroyed and built over again with new SNs.
Those guys are so pissed they might drop TBAC from their inventory going forward
You have me at a disadvantage because I don't know what dealer it is. If it's an Idaho dealer, we've only had one (1) suppressor fail the recall test from any dealer in ID so far.
Here are some facts--
To date we have tested/evaluated about 45% of all the cans in the recall. Of those, 90% of them have already been returned to the dealers/customers. The remaining 10% is almost all cans we are in the process of logging in, testing, or logging out and shipping out. A very small number are cans that are going to be repaired/replaced.
The expected failure rate has ended up being less than half of the failure rate we expected when we announced the recall about 6 weeks ago. In other words, in the affected batches, even fewer cans are actually bad vs. what we thought originally.
Our largest dealer, who had the most cans still in their inventory, has had their cans fully tested and only 6 failed. No other dealer has had more than 2 out of their inventory fail. This includes ones they have sitting on the shelf waiting on a customer Form 4.
For cans that failed the evaluation test, there are two cases:
(1) The dealer has this can on a Form 3 and there is NO customer Form 4 filed. In this case, we are just shipping the dealer a brand new replacement, fresh off the head of the production line, on a new Form 3. They will Form 3 back to us the old can and we'll eventually destroy it here on site. We have new batches coming off the line daily and for most models we'd have a replacement can ready in 1-3 weeks from any particular day; worst case would be about 4 weeks for the least common model.
(2) The end-customer already has the suppressor on a cleared Form 4 -- OR -- the dealer is possessing the can on a Form 3 BUT there is already an end-customer Form 4 filed. These we are repairing immediately. In each of these cases we contact the end customer directly to make sure he knows what's happening and to find out which "SWAG" option he wants (the free brakes or 50% off a new can) for the inconvenience and the cosmetic alternation of his can. At the moment, we have a bunch of repair stacks ready to go just waiting on the reply from the dealer (see below).
We have a little bit of overhead and delay in communicating with the dealer to determine if it's case 1 or 2 and right now our biggest delay is just getting replies back from dealers if a particular case falls into case 1 or case 2.
Really, it sounds like they have a misunderstanding of how the recall works for cans that do fail, because what they told you is different from what we posted online, what I posted here, and what we are actually doing. I would encourage them to call me (or any of our team) if they have questions about the recall.
Anecdotally, I have had more emails come in from customers who wished their can had failed so they could get the 50% discount, than customers who actually had cans fail.