Leica Grumble.

Afternoon All.

Just wondering if any of you have had issues with Leicas Geovids / HD's / HD-B's

My Father is on his third pair of Leicas now , and the first two pairs both had to be warranty repaired.

Now the Third pair (HD-B's only 12 months old) Have also shit the bed.

Still great binos , just not range finding at all! I've scoured the net but everything just says "Send them back for factory repair"

As we know here in NZ , that could take months.

I wonder if I'm going crazy about the fragile qualities to these otherwise great optics , or if others have had the same experience.

Mine are the 10 x 42 HD-B's. Must be about 6 or 7 years old now and haven't had any problems (touching wood as we speak)
I bought mine from local H and F after I gave them the opportunity to price match. Id expect them to sort out any problem I might have.

Leica's quality control is non existent. Had a HD-R 2700 that wouldn't range properly, dealer sent them back to factory with 2 other pairs with the same issue, 2 of the 3 came back with the very issues that they had before their 2-3 month trip oversea's, dealer did give our money back though. i will never buy another Leica again, now have a zeiss which are very good. (have also owned swaro's )

Same my hdb would not Range in the Sun ditched them quick snart. I have the handheld and it's awesome.

That's a real shame. I suppose I'll have to now do the warranty thing.

Mine are approx five years old and have been great. My hunting mate bought a set the same time and his crapped out after two years, got a replacement set, they wouldn't range past a couple hundred metres straight out of the box, got a replacement set and they seem to be ok. Makes me a bit nervous to be fair, quite a bit of money tied up in binos for them to crap out.

Mine would stop ranging when they got cold - really bloody annoying. My local HnF doesn’t stock Leica anymore due to the issues they had with warranty support etc.

I had x2 dud sets. After the 2nd set returned back still faulty I got a refund.

I've read a few places online Leica's out of warranty support is garbage. I can tell you swaro support at least for their scopes is good outside of warranty.