Quoted from tracelifter:I have never gotten parts from Stern as far back as '06 when they wanted a pic of the broken ramp on my ELVIS I finally just bought one.
I have a PM from a Pinsider that is getting the same run around on his AVLE for a floorplate.
I didn't bother with it, the mech hammers itself to pieces, there is metal fatigue, the pins on the rocker are loose and both links have hairline cracks in them.
The allen that holds the rocker on the shaft is pot metal and just twisted off when I went to loosen it and I had to disassemble the mech from the top to get it out through the bottom to remove it and drill it out.
Stern can send the parts to the new owner and he can screw with this game.
New parts are a temporary fix, you will be back to square one in a few hundred plays.
I'm not so sure. I have a hulk LE with 500+ plays with no signs of any of these issues. That demonstrates that new parts assembled correctly can work. On this game, ball times are long so 500 plays is comparible usage to 1500 on say acdc. So its fair to say that QC sucked on the machine you received. It's not fair to say new parts wouldn't solve the problem. If your presentation were true, every single avengers machine would be falling apart. They aren't.