NEA Problems

Have you had problems with your NEA?

  • I had an NEA and it never had any problems

    Votes: 149 34.7%

  • I had an NEA and it had minor problems

    Votes: 80 18.6%

  • I had an NEA and it had major problems

    Votes: 94 21.9%

  • My buddy had/I know someone with an NEA and it had problems

    Votes: 106 24.7%
  • Total voters
    429
I got a brand new NEA that had a small problem, nothing serious with it.
But dealing with NEA support is a pain.
They reply kind of fast, they ask you to ship the upper to them and then trouble starts.
It has been about a month that they said that my upper was repaired and that it was shipped. I live 2 hours away from them, a Regular Parcel takes 3 to 5 business days.

It's very disappointing.
I had plans to build a 7.62x39 and a .308 (when released) but I honestly changed my mind.
 
Antoine22 said:
Anyone remember the NEA swiss arm lower fiasco?

1.)Out of spec lower

2.)defective muzzle brake (remember the poor guy posting pictures of his target with every hits being keyholes lol)

3.)And who the heck anodize in grey?!?
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1.) Blueline released a whole batch of #### lowers about two years ago. The anodizing was blotchy and had blue/purple in them.

They also would not take take down pins or trigger pins. The mag wells were tight.

These lowers were made by Dlask. I bought three lowers. Took over six months to return, deal with CFO, and get my money back.

2.) That muzzle device was installed by the user, and the issue was user error. Not NEA.

3.) We have Colts at work that are Anodized grey. My KAC URX 3.1 rails are a grey.
 
I had a nea that I pieced together. The biggest issue was the dust cover was so messed it was a joke. You couldn't close it without using a small screw driver to depress the detent, plus it was ground way out of spec it didn't have rounded corners the whole thing was nearly a crescent. I replaced that before selling it.

The rails were consistent between the upper and the quad rail but compared to my ar's out seemed to be ever so wider only noticeable when swapping optics and accessories with qd bits.

I had some issues with feeding and extracting but it was a gas issue that I was able to correct. Again I pieced it together so it was partly my fault there.
 
Part of the NEA bad reputation is that they have had serious and consistent quality issues with virtually every single product they make. I got one of their shotgun barrels. No bead, parkerized both inside and out, chamber had to be polished before it would extract, and to top it all off, I own 7 wingmasters and it wouldn't fit any of them. The extractor slot in the barrel wouldn't line up with the extractor on the bolt. I had to open the slot up a few thou to get it to work. For the people who defend nea here is something to think about. All their parts are made on cnc machines. It takes about 30 seconds to change the program to make a part in spec. You check the first part, if it is out, you adjust the program and the next part and all future parts are in spec. It doesn't cost one cent more to make a good part than it does a bad part. People say their customer sevice is excellent. Big deal. The best customer service is the one that you never need.
 
aiwa said:
I figure there's some value in heresay. I have neither owned an NEA nor known someone that did. Leaving out the 'I know', I get 61%, as of this posting, owners reporting problems. Crazy.
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I worked with a guy, who's Uncle knew a guys Dad who saw a Daniel Defense rifle FTE one time at a sporting clays event . Does this mean all DD rifles are problematic when used on clays? Maybe only on clays between the earth and the sky? What is a clay?

Would the guy at the clay shoot even know a bad operating AR if a whole crate of them fell on his ####? And so on and so forth. We all speak heresay from time to time, but putting it in a poll FFS ..............
 
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I Agree there shouldn't be a "my friend/buddy/some guy i heard about" part to this,

It should be owners or previous owners only.

If someone were to own one and post about the issues, and another user knows him there would be two votes for the same issue on the same rifle. It is not a fair poll.
 
I have two. 14.5" with no issues and a 7.5" with one gas key bolt needed staking properly. NEA sent me new bolts for free. I know they are pretty cheap but I don't have any on me so it was great service.
 
A.T.R. said:
1.) Blueline released a whole batch of #### lowers about two years ago. The anodizing was blotchy and had blue/purple in them.

They also would not take take down pins or trigger pins. The mag wells were tight.

These lowers were made by Dlask. I bought three lowers. Took over six months to return, deal with CFO, and get my money back.

2.) That muzzle device was installed by the user, and the issue was user error. Not NEA.

3.) We have Colts at work that are Anodized grey. My KAC URX 3.1 rails are a grey.
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And to add to that - some C7s and C8s in the CF have different colours for the receivers, including purple and blue as well and those are made by Colt Canada, which everybody agrees is a top of the line manufacturer. ;) Having different shades or hues of colours from the anodizing process isn't a problem, it's the way it is.
 
I have a few nea products, only one of which I have had issues with. The first was the clambshell they produced for the 10/22. It arrived with the wrong screws to secure it to the receiver. After a few calls to nea, they sent me replacement screws...which were also the wrong size. Ended up going to the local gunsmith who found some that worked.

I also picked up one of their Tavor handguard/rail systems, Alas it still sits on the shelf as I prefer the Dlask rail.

The barrel I bought for my 10/22 was only slightly tighter than the factory barrel, and didn't require much work to make it fit properly.

No issues with any of the other nea gear I've bought.
 
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I love my highly accurate and reliable 12.5" NEA. To my knowledge, we have had very lttle if any issues with the NEA's shipped over to NZ. Having the fourth question in the poll ("i know someone who knows someone...") is ridiculous.
 
7.5 PDW, AT heavy buffer. Easily 1000 rnds+ down the barrel. No issues. No FTE,FTF. Fit and finish is great. The only thing I had to replace was a crush washer because the flash hider was backing off. Changed it, problem stopped.I think alot of people view a 7.5'' pretty useless and I suppose it has limitations but it is a tight little shooter. Seems they have had lots of issues though, bad batches of parts...finish people didn't like, fit issues.

I have seen how well some guys at my club take care of their firearms...they are filthy...like they have never cleaned them...anything you neglect has a greater chance of failing...I'm not saying there are not issues with the manufacturing but alot of guys that complain about things failing,breaking and not functioning properly over abuse their firearms and neglect even basic cleaning.
 
so this poll shows that only 35.05% of NEA owners didn't encounter issues. 64.95% encountered issues, that to me is a sign of NO NO
 
deagle2008 said:
so this poll shows that only 35.05% of NEA owners didn't encounter issues. 64.95% encountered issues, that to me is a sign of NO NO
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Deagle you may want to double check your math :d
According to this (poorly worded) poll, 47% of owners never had any problems with their NEA, 31% had minor issues, and 22% had major problems. Still nothing to write home about imo.
 
I calculated Minor,major and friends problems together vs the never had any issue. Minor major or friends problem is still a problem. I dont care how much your gonna defend those guys but im still standing on my opinion that NEA screwed its costumers over by letting ####ty product out even thu according to JEFF from NEA they should have made it to the trash bin. I have several emails about different parts that "should have made it to the trash bin" from Jeff the president of the company. So dont even start
 


  • I have no dog in this fight.
    I will steer clear of any product where 35 out of 74 people have had quality issues with that product.
    74 is because I have not counted the hearsay votes.
 
deagle2008 said:
I calculated Minor,major and friends problems together vs the never had any issue. Minor major or friends problem is still a problem. I dont care how much your gonna defend those guys but im still standing on my opinion that NEA screwed its costumers over by letting ####ty product out even thu according to JEFF from NEA they should have made it to the trash bin. I have several emails about different parts that "should have made it to the trash bin" from Jeff the president of the company. So dont even start
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Your butt-hurt is showing. I'm not defending them by doing simple math - you said "this poll shows that only 35.05% of NEA owners didn't encounter issues." and that is patently false.

According to the results of this poll to date, someone purchasing an NEA today has a slightly greater (53%) chance of getting a rifle with some issues than a rifle without (47%). That's not good, but it's not as bad as you tried to make it out to be.
You also have to consider that because of the poor wording of the poll, we have some contributors who have voted based their experience with NEA parts of all kinds, not just NEA-15 rifles (10/22 parts, Tavor hand-guards, SG barrels, etc.)
 
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I think the last selection of the poll pretty much tanks it & credibility is most likely shot. I'm willing to bet half that voted this way are either duplicates or based on heresay / what they read on CGN.
 
Please redo the poll with


1. I own/owned a NEA product with issues.

2. I own/owned a NEA product without issues.

or

1. I Own/owned NEA an liked it.

2. I own/owned NEA and disliked it.
 
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