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Crashed to hell in my PILOT suit. I'm so bummed. It's my favorite suit, EVER! The suit held up very, very well, but could use some cosmetic restoration. Can Carrie restore it?
Sorry to hear that you crashed, but it happens. I'm glad we got you out of that old suit and into something safer!
As far as restoration, we can go two routes depending on your budget and amount of crash damage.
The first route is very straight forward. Carrie can repair anything that occurred in the crash (i.e. bias leather tears, top stitch restitching, external armor replacement, etc.). If patches were damaged in the crash, we can order them up from PILOT and stitch new ones on.
If crash damage is more extensive, we can go a second route. We can get the suit to PILOT for full panel replacement. So, if you totally trashed an arm or a leg, we can just put a new arm or leg on the suit...it'll look just like when you got it out of the box...at least that new arm or leg, that is!!!
With those two routes put out there, I must say that most go for the first, as the crash damage is rarely bad enough to necessitate a completely new portion of the suit. Yet, sometimes we fix something using the first route during the season so that you don't miss out on track time, and then go the second route in the off-season, so that your suit is good as new for the season to come!!!
PILOT suits do exactly what they're intended to do--they save your ass when something goes wrong! Double and triple stitched seams don't blow, they hold up and save your ass!!!
Here's a great video (check out 2:10 to 4:10!) of the last lap of the 2011 Daytona 200! Man, check out PILOT riders DiSalvo, West, and Westby fly. It should have been a podium sweep for PILOT, but the unfortunate 170mph crash for Westby made it such that the podium sweep didn't materialize. Yet, with PILOT's "Advanced Seam System"--everything is double and triple stitched!!!--Westby walked away and felt well enough to get confrontational in the pits!!! That's PILOT protection!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5r4Y3l6-nc
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