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
Boomer686 said:
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.
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Agreed......this poll is completely useless and deems it for failure based on the last option. Stick to facts and not third party bitter judgements from keyboard commandos.
 
Actually the last line helps me quite a bit. NEA seemed to me like a bad bet before but allowing the hearsay and second hand opinions a slot it allows me to discount them and look at the real results.
 
Deagle had his bolt explode, his forward assist eject into space and his barrel peeled away like a banana at PoCo.
Some here even suggested he was abusing his NEA rifle by shooting it too fast.
NEA officially replied to him that the geisele trigger was to blame.
After that response from NEA is there any need for any further discussion?
 
It is only my opinion, but I believe any of the first 500-750 NEA rifles, uppers, barrels and parts were an issue, but since then they have become an excellent budget minded AR. In other words, of those who said they had "major malfunctions" it is my opinion that the majority will be owners of earlier rifles. Not completely, mind you, but the majority.

My issue was an upper with too soft aluminum, out of spec parts kit, poor quality bolt and improper head spacing on an upper, from a purchase of a complete rifle with a serial number around 180. All of that was quickly fixed by sending the upper away to NEA, resulting in a whole new second gen upper.
 
mikethebike said:
Deagle had his bolt explode, his forward assist eject into space and his barrel peeled away like a banana at PoCo.
Some here even suggested he was abusing his NEA rifle by shooting it too fast.
NEA officially replied to him that the geisele trigger was to blame.
After that response from NEA is there any need for any further discussion?
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Christensen Arms anyone?

The $3500-$4000 boat anchor ???

:p
 
Right! And then there is the shotgun barrel fiasco. Barrels that were parkerised on the inside, no bead at all, so far out of index the extractor wouldn't line up with the cutout, barrel so oversize it would only fit in about 1 in 10 receivers. Make no mistake, their quality control issues extended to virtually every product they made
 
Sleeper said:
Actually the last line helps me quite a bit. NEA seemed to me like a bad bet before but allowing the hearsay and second hand opinions a slot it allows me to discount them and look at the real results.
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37 people with major problems and 34 with minor issues..... That is very telling considering how small the user group is that was poled
 
mikethebike said:
...NEA officially replied to him that the geisele trigger was to blame...
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iirc, Deagle was having trouble with his rifle doubling...he had an aftermarket (Geissele) trigger installed so NEA suggested he return to a stock trigger in order to see if the issue continued. I love how that scenario gets interpreted as NEA's official response: Geissele To Blame!. f:P:
 
if there was a war and they had nea on one table and norinco ar 15s on another table, i would grab the norinco.
 
mildcustom2 said:
Christensen Arms anyone?

The $3500-$4000 boat anchor ???

:p
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In fairness the christensen arms never failed spectacularly like deagles NEA did. It wouldn't chamber, but all of its parts remained attached to the rifle, which is more than I can say for deagles NEA.
 
Jamie said:
so how does one cause a muzzle device to blow apart? how is this user error?
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With a pronged flash hider, tightening/loosening/indexing it by placing a flat piece of metal (crescent wrench for example) in the prongs and reefing on it can do that. I'm not suggesting that Deagle did that at all, I'm just saying that A.T.R. is correct that improper installation can cause this issue.
 
Im tired of idiots blaming me for Nea's ####ty product, so im just going to post this here,
From:"Jeff Hussey" <jeff@northeasternarms.com>
Date:Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:52 AM
Subject:Re: IMPORTANT !!!!!! NEA 7" FORWARD ASSIST now The Bolt

Hi ######x

I would like to apologize for my previous emails. Myself or someone should have called you to help you trouble shoot your rifle after your first email the other day. Regardless of why your rifle was not working it is our product and we do stand behind them.

When we send you the replacement muzzle device would you like us to send you one of our new Delta stocks? Its similar to the magpul CTR stock?

Regarding your previous problems;
Broken bolt - those bolts came from what was a very reputable supplier in israel. I can’t even begin to tell you how many broke during our time using them or how much they hurt our business. We are now making our own bolts in house and you have one. I would be curious to know what you think if it now that you have had a chance to use it? It should be a breeze to clean.

Broken muzzle device - I’m frustrated that it got out, that was around the time we started a new heat treatment process and also started to machine our own muzzle devices. We scrapped a batch of those and obviously your should have been a part of it. Again i apologize for your trouble. In the last year since then we have take many steps to control by Lot# parts that go to heat treat so that when problems do occur we can better isolate suspect parts.

Again i apologize for the trouble you have gone through with our product and for the less than stelar service. Ryan @ SFRC tells me that there is a thread going on about this on CGN. We do not participate there but i will take his word for it that we are getting our just deserves. I bring this up to ask that you keep this email between you and I as i am not doing this in the hope of repairing the damage done in that thread to NEA.

Can you re forward me your shipping address so we can send out your package this week.


Jeff Hussey
President
North Eastern Arms *NEA*

PH - 705.879.2870
Jeff@northeasternarms.com
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Oh BTW i never saw that stock he promised me, Ryan from SFRC was very helpful and replaced the whole rifle with a gen 2 which also f^cked up after 500 rounds. The gen2 was replaced by Ryan to a Troy M7 kit which i have ran many hundred rounds without a single malfunction
 
Number 2 is incorrect. I was that "user" and did not install the muzzle break. It was a factory defect from NEA. It was Ryan from SFRC that mistakenly said it was me. I bought the rifle from NEA and dealt with them directly... SFRC was not involved.
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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