POLL! Surefire Clicky - had a failure?

[MikeLip]

Simple;

How many Surefires with clickie switches do you have. Twisties are excluded. Intensity controls like the U2 ring are excluded. Just the rear tailcap clickie switch.

Have any of them ever failed? Any kind of failure.

Choose ONE of the first four answers, then ONE of the last two!

I would prefer NO discussion under this thread, but I know that won't happen. Just the numbers please!

 

[Tempest UK]

Apparently I'm too stupid to grasp the concept of a multiple choice poll, so I only ticked one option :thinking: To clarify, I own at least 5 SFs with clickies and have never had a single problem.

Regards,
Tempest

 

[MikeLip]

LOL! Not at all. You can check any number of the boxes, but doing that would mess it up. There was no way for me to make the top four mutually exclusive, and the bottom two mutually exclusive, but require answers to both sets of questions if you see what I mean. I should have made it two polls, but keeping the answers in sync would have been impossible.

So since I own 6 SFs with clickies, I checked the third option. Since none have failed, I also checked the last option.

 

[NickDrak]

I Have owned 8 total Surefires with SF clicky tailcaps at one time or another. Currently I only own 4. I have never had a SF tailcap fail on me yet. The only issue I did have was that the rubber button cover on my U2's tailcap fell off some how, and I had SF send me a new replacement tailcap. Dont know hy, but it wouldnt work in my U2, but I was able to cannabalize it for parts and replace the rubber on my U2's original tailcap. It has not failed me in over 3 years of Police work, and around the house/car duties.

 

[Illum]

1 surefire
so far so good, bought a spare

 

[lightemup]

Over 10, and never had a problem.

(Scientist hat on) Two issues with a poll of this nature is the limited sample of the target population (i.e. cpf is not necessarily an indicator of the overall Surefire clickie population), and the possible over representation of those with failures, as many who haven't had failures may either overlook the thread, or may not feel compelled enough to post.

Having voiced my concern in terms of the analysis of the obtained results, good on you, and I will be very interested to see what you find!

 

[TigerhawkT3]

Allow me to save you guys some time:

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Edit #2:

Final Results at 178 respondants, reporting on 416 new lights or new clicky switches:

74.5% reported good switches out of the box.

3.4% reported problems which are in the process of being fixed, 3.8% reported problems which couldn't be fixed within 3 months, and 17.3% reported problems which were fixed OK within 3 months.

Total proportion of lights/switches reported with initial problems was 24.5%.

Hope that helps.

 

[MikeLip]

Yeah, I thought about all that. Seems to me that if it runs long enough things might settle out a bit more meaningfully. Certainly the early results aren't very useful for the very reasons you mention. Just the ones that are POed about or ardently for SF will be answering right now.

I suppose another way to do this would have been to ask "As a percentage of your total number of clickies, how many have failed?"

Nah, that wouldn't work either. Well, it's a toe in the water.

Next I ask about Maglights!

 

[Brozneo]

L4 clickie - got stuck in, replaced by SF...

 

[MikeLip]

Allow me to save you guys some time:



Hope that helps.

It does, thanks! But I'll leave it run anyway.

 

[asdalton]

I had one E1E clicky that would occasionally get stuck--but I don't consider it a failure since I didn't have to send it back to Surefire, and the problem went away after the switch was used for a while.

 

[elgarak]

How do you define failure?

I had SF switches stuck in the on position; I still could turn the lights on and off with twisting. SF sent replacements, but taking apart the tailcaps and cleaning got the switches working again. ALL of them are working right now.

Does this count as failure?

 

[MikeLip]

Heck yeah it does The switch stopped working as designed. That's a failure.

 

[djblank87]

Lots of Surefire items and never a single failure, never ever I'm happy to say. I checked my boxes and good luck with your poll Mike Lip :thumbsup:

 

[Numbers]

elgarak
that's a failure

 

[mossyoak]

three surefire clickies (only own one currently) but have never had even one issue.

 

[Well-Lit]

Eleven clickies...No Failures.

Bob

 

[da.gee]

I have had bad luck with SF. Ordered a clickie for my very first SF, a G2L and the first one was bad and was replaced. Just got a brand new E2L and its clickie is bad. Whaddup with that? How do you clean a tailcap anyway? I hate dealing with returns.

 

[Alero]

Clickie in my G2 hasn't failed me yet. But that might be bacause it's my modded M*g switch in there.

 

[bondr006]

3 SF clickies (U2, 6PD, E1L), and no failures so far.