Maverick827
10-23-2009, 11:45 PM
A while ago the spring that governs the strum bar to my Rock Band guitar controller snapped in half, rendering the strum bar itself rather limp and unusable.
I took one half of the spring, stretched it out, re-inserted it, and it worked fine for a while. Then that spring snapped, and I repeated the process.
As you might imagine, this process could not continue forever, and I fear when it snaps again I will not be able to fix it, so I began to search for a replacement. I have also searched a similarly sized spring, but so far nothing has fit properly.
The only information regarding any sort of replacement or repair I have been able to find repeats a "60 Day Warranty" policy like a parrot and nothing else.
Buying a new controller seems to be an unreasonably harsh solution, as it seems vendors only sell wireless (e.g. more expensive) controllers at exorbitant prices ($70+).
The actual brunt of my question is three-fold, and (what I fear to be) decreasingly auspicious:
1) Is there a well known, community sponsored replacement part (spring) vendor somewhere on the internet?
2) Does EA have a repair/replacement policy for parts well past the 60 day warranty?
3) Is there a way to buy a non-wireless controller without buying a game bundle?
I took one half of the spring, stretched it out, re-inserted it, and it worked fine for a while. Then that spring snapped, and I repeated the process.
As you might imagine, this process could not continue forever, and I fear when it snaps again I will not be able to fix it, so I began to search for a replacement. I have also searched a similarly sized spring, but so far nothing has fit properly.
The only information regarding any sort of replacement or repair I have been able to find repeats a "60 Day Warranty" policy like a parrot and nothing else.
Buying a new controller seems to be an unreasonably harsh solution, as it seems vendors only sell wireless (e.g. more expensive) controllers at exorbitant prices ($70+).
The actual brunt of my question is three-fold, and (what I fear to be) decreasingly auspicious:
1) Is there a well known, community sponsored replacement part (spring) vendor somewhere on the internet?
2) Does EA have a repair/replacement policy for parts well past the 60 day warranty?
3) Is there a way to buy a non-wireless controller without buying a game bundle?
