Older Springfield Prodigy Repairs

[C3roosen]

Has anyone had any luck buying a used older Prodigy and having Springfield fix the early production issues?

[JustEd]

I don’t. However am always suspicious about ported auto feeders. 
 

You are right to ask. And hope someone can help further

[DJTC45]

Do you have one of the older models or are you looking at getting one. What issues are you concerned about? Reliability, feeding ect....

[C3roosen]

Well I have been thinking of Buying used. This begs the question, at what point did they finally figure out their quality control with the Prodigy. I know the early runs were plagued with issues,  it I have heard the newer ones are significantly better. Then there is the support question. Are they able to make the early guns better, or are you better of finding someone to do the work. 

[Gurn]

Sounds like a good enough reason to look for something else. 

[deerslayer]

Most of the issues with the early ones seemed to be magazine related. 

[DJTC45]

7 hours ago, C3roosen said:

Well I have been thinking of Buying used. This begs the question, at what point did they finally figure out their quality control with the Prodigy. I know the early runs were plagued with issues,  it I have heard the newer ones are significantly better. Then there is the support question. Are they able to make the early guns better, or are you better of finding someone to do the work. 

Depends on what you feel needs fixed, are you talking feeding issues, mag issues ect... It's hit and miss with just about any gun you buy new or used. I work on all of mine myself if there's an issue, I've seen and had $3500+ 1911's and I've had $600 1911's that needed a little work and I've had good luck with in that price range that preformed perfectly right out of the box. That's why I asked what concerned you about the earlier Prodigy's. 

[Erich]

I had an earlier one, not first batch but close enough. Functionally it was fine. No issues. It did go back as they forced an optic plate into the undersized optic cut of the slide which damage it.  they had to recut the slide and refinish.
Springfield from a service perspective is good on the customer service end. The service dept, well…it’s a crap shoot.  The cerakote after the repair was pretty bad. 

But they stepped up after I got ahold of them and addressed it. 

I would inspect anything you are looking at pretty closely. Avoid any obvious problems opposed to relying on service support to address something you are willing to accept thinking they’d fix it (true of any US company). That said, It’s a great platform and in the end you should be good.  

Edited Tuesday at 03:29 AM by Erich

[gregintenn]

Why on earth chase an expected problem?  My head hurts enough without all that.