i've never had my pots fall off either..."but" and this has been my experience with Indonesian and Chinese squier's the volume pots don't do much of anything till past 5 or 6. YMMV
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i've never had my pots fall off either..."but" and this has been my experience with Indonesian and Chinese squier's the volume pots don't do much of anything till past 5 or 6. YMMV
The pots on my VM Fretless Jazz went south 3 weeks ago.... Literally and figuratively. I carried my bass and new amp 400 miles south to visit with some old friends and jam a little with some old band mates.
Didn't get three songs in before I started getting some horrible scratchy static. My first impulse was, (Gee, no wonder I got such a good deal on this new amp.) but tapping on the pots made it stop for a moment. The pot for the neck pickup became intermittent, the bridge and tone pots got real quiet.
Oddly enough, this happened just a few days after I read somewhere on this forum that the mini pots Squier uses are crap
I replaced the mini pots with some full sized ones within a week and all is good. (Had to drill new holes for the control plate because the factory didn't center it over the cut out
and the larger pots where too close at one end and crooked.)
This bass is less than 4 years old. Good quality pots would last longer.
Now I'm not bashing Squier! I love this bass and for the money, it would still be a good deal even if it didn't come with pots and you had to put in your own. Pretty sure my next bass will also be a Squier.
Also note it's no mystery that inexpensive products come with inexpensive components, especially when they come from Indonesia.
Didn't get three songs in before I started getting some horrible scratchy static. My first impulse was, (Gee, no wonder I got such a good deal on this new amp.) but tapping on the pots made it stop for a moment. The pot for the neck pickup became intermittent, the bridge and tone pots got real quiet.
Oddly enough, this happened just a few days after I read somewhere on this forum that the mini pots Squier uses are crap
I replaced the mini pots with some full sized ones within a week and all is good. (Had to drill new holes for the control plate because the factory didn't center it over the cut out
and the larger pots where too close at one end and crooked.)
This bass is less than 4 years old. Good quality pots would last longer.
Now I'm not bashing Squier! I love this bass and for the money, it would still be a good deal even if it didn't come with pots and you had to put in your own. Pretty sure my next bass will also be a Squier.
Also note it's no mystery that inexpensive products come with inexpensive components, especially when they come from Indonesia.
Fairy tale? Really? Do you honestly believe that just because the ones you own have not had issues, that it is unrealistic for anyone elses to have, or that they don't have the right to relate their experience on the internet with other people who might have had the same problem? Maybe we're just making it up for kicks, you know, to besmirch the good name of the bass we play...
I think my Squier is a great value for the money, with a great sound and a hot look, but I certainly don't expect to get the highest quality components for the $265 I paid. I wholeheartedly forgive it its troublesome volume pots, but it doesn't make them any less weak. 
What 'troublesome pots"?
I have four Squiers of various vintages and so far none have had a pot problem. None. Ever. No 'scratchiness' nor any inability to control the tone/vol over the whole sweep - none.
What's the odds that I would have troubles?
I will say this - I lost one half of the split p'ups on a Affinity P once and replaced them - but pots? Nope.
Still a fairy tale to me as I've had no experience with pots on any Squiers failing. And there's nothing to forgive if I have not been negatively affected.
I have four Squiers of various vintages and so far none have had a pot problem. None. Ever. No 'scratchiness' nor any inability to control the tone/vol over the whole sweep - none.
What's the odds that I would have troubles?
I will say this - I lost one half of the split p'ups on a Affinity P once and replaced them - but pots? Nope.
Still a fairy tale to me as I've had no experience with pots on any Squiers failing. And there's nothing to forgive if I have not been negatively affected.
Hmmm... Four Squiers of various vintages? With such a large sample size over the tens of thousands of basses Squier has produced, I can see why you would equate anyone having trouble with their Squier to be a fairy tale.
Yup - that's what I said and I am so glad my interpretation of what isn't wrong with mine didn't escape one's notice.
Here's my vm p bass, just got it last week. Traded in a old ibanez at gc, was gonna buy a mim fender, at the last minute I played this and wow! sounded 5 times better then the fender and feels better too. Also didn't cost me a dime, got $60.00 back so put on some chromes, a white pickguard,and bridge and pickup covers.
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^^^^ = Hot stuff!... I'm normally against white anything, but when you add that much chrome, anything looks gooooood. 
mine arrived also! after long time shipping..
Squier Vintage Modified Precision Bass
and little jamming recorded with my iphone:
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Squier Vintage Modified Precision Bass
and little jamming recorded with my iphone:
YouTube - IMG_0255.MOV
I have a Classic Vibe 51 P and the volume pot just went on me. I'm the second owner and the bass is only about 6 months old.
I was in a local music store two days ago and asked the guy working on a guitar if he sees a lot of Squiers with cheap crappy pots that need to be replaced and he said yeah, it's pretty common on Squiers.
I'm wantin another bass real bad and it'll probably be a Squier because I like them a lot regardless of the cheap pots they use.
I'll shield the pup and control cavities because the metallic paint they use don't cut it and spend the $15-20 on new pots for and it'll still be a good deal.
Sorry Joe, but it's not a fairy tale, just the truth.
I'm wantin another bass real bad and it'll probably be a Squier because I like them a lot regardless of the cheap pots they use.
I'll shield the pup and control cavities because the metallic paint they use don't cut it and spend the $15-20 on new pots for and it'll still be a good deal.
Sorry Joe, but it's not a fairy tale, just the truth.
I was in a local music store two days ago and asked the guy working on a guitar if he sees a lot of Squiers with cheap crappy pots that need to be replaced and he said yeah, it's pretty common on Squiers.
I'm wantin another bass real bad and it'll probably be a Squier because I like them a lot regardless of the cheap pots they use.
I'll shield the pup and control cavities because the metallic paint they use don't cut it and spend the $15-20 on new pots for and it'll still be a good deal.
Sorry Joe, but it's not a fairy tale, just the truth.
What bothers me is that these same pots are used in so many other lower-line guitars and basses, and yet the Squier seems to bear the whole responsibility of them being bad.
Admittedly - they can and do fail, but I don't see it as just a Squier-thing at all. I'd change them too - if or when they fail. So far I've been very fortunate I guess.
It's pretty likely the other low-line guitars have their share of similar problems, but we don't hear about it because those other low-line brands aren't as popular as Squier.
It's also possible Squier/Fender orders such a large quantity of mini pots at such a low price that the manufacture has to skimp on that production run to make a profit. A manufacture would do whatever they can to keep a big buyer like Fender happy with the price.
Since Squier is Fenders low-line, I'm sure their more concerned with price than quality of the electrics because they think we're gonna trade in our entry level Squiers for Fenders in a year or so.
I'd rather rewire a Squier
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