Thanks for the recommendation for the website. I had checked it out prior to buying my wasr...... The one I purchased did not have any of the problems listed on there.... What was actually wrong with mine, and still is to a small degree is, the action works very rough, and when cycling it by hand the bolt will hold open..... Before sending it back to the factory it was serious, happened like every two to three hand cycles, now it more like once every 50 hand cycles. The piston was cross threaded on the bolt carrier causing it to be at an angle, this caused some of the problem, and they fixed