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I've never done anything like that. How involved is it to change the extractor?
It is easy. You remove the rear plate (you push down on the striker sleeve to release it) and pull it off. Then empty out the slide parts out the back, and the extractor and the striker safety will fall out too. May need to push up on the safety plunger to drop the extractor out. Install in reverse, youtube if you can't figure it out.
I have several Glocks, but their recent performance has been inverse to their past performance. The ambi mag release on the SF G20 frame... Junk. The gen 4 (whatever is wrong with them)... Junk. None of this stuff ever should have made it out of R&D. It is like they just jotted it down on paper, and then took that paper to the manufacturing floor and said "here you go, the new Glocks".
After getting them to fix this last frame, and hearing all the problems about the gen 4 stuff, I've dropped Glock. I own as many as I ever will, and if I do get another, it will be a gen 3. At this point, I can't trust them to work. If Glock loses its reputation for reliability, it won't be any more different than an expensive Hi Point. And I bet right now you could probably expect better out of the box performance without contacting the company for repair parts.
Repair parts for what are essentially life safety devices. Life safety devices with known problems that have not ever had one recall. Am I the only one that sees a problem in this?
Oh yeah, and Glock is treating this like a recall, except without all the hassle to a big corporation that a recall entails, like contacting the purchaser and offering to pay the shipping fees etc. You have to ASK them for a shipping account, otherwise they are more than happy to let you pay the next day shipping fees through fedex.
Yep. Through with Glock. Liked 'em while they lasted, but they've really let me down in the last couple of years. If they don't get their act together, I don't see 'em sticking around much longer. Reliability is all they have (which is probably why they won't do a recall --they still have their reputation, abeit not deserved for their new junk).
