My fave Shimano Exage travel rod snapped at a ferrule mid-cast yesterday evening. Anyone know if/where I can buy replacement sections?

How olds is it if its under 1 year old (Or two if you filled in and sent away the form) go back to your local tackle shop / where you bought it.

Advice is given here http://fish.shimano-eu.com/publish/content/fish/seh/nl/en/contactus.html

Ryan

Sadly Ryan it's over a year old, but they may have the spare joints I need. But I think they've changed double leg intermediate rings for single legged ones. Anyhow, I'll contac them. Thank you.

Ah you never know, shimano sometimes, just give you a replacement as a goodwill gesture , they are a good company are shimano

Ryan

gutted! i love my exage travel rod! you need to contact felindre ,they are shimano's spares agent in the uk

but it could cost you as much for a spare section as it would for a new rod,i tried it with my fox travel carp rod last year and it was not much difference

Gerry,

Go to a tackle shop, a lot of shops order in and sell spares blow the RRP for that part. Or complain to fox, i'm sure with a company as good as that they would come up with a solution.

Ryan

ryan i tried ,it would have cost 70quid for the one section and a new rod is 80 i just got a new one in the end as i needed it quickly

fair enough Gerry, if you are ever in search of a spare again contact me and i will find the best price i can do it for, for regular customers or members of this forum, i normally try to do the best price possible.

Or any other regular forum member i will do the same.

Ryan

cheers ryan ,i will remember that as the travel rods do take some stick

Shimano can't do anything for me. In spite of their awards for after sales service, some bloke phones me and says "we don't have any spare sections for the rod". So it's basically 'Tough!'

Felindre said the same to me regarding an old seaspin baitrunner handle. The handle is exactly the same as the new ( B version) but felindre said it couldn't be done, took offending reel to local tackle shop and had a replacement within a week.

what can i say ,i've used felindre a few times and the service has always been spot on,but like i said before you may as well just buy another rod if its out of guarantee