PDP dead trigger issue!!!

December 23, 2025, 03:29 PM

I can’t believe I’m going to say this but……..this is one of the big reasons I dig HK. Their service/communication is pretty stellar. Ohhh how the worm has turned.

. Maybe all those folks who hate us and think we suck got better jobs at Walther.

December 23, 2025, 04:00 PM

JonDaddy82

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Originally posted by 1flynDO:
Shit. I just bought a 4 in pdp pro e compact and a 4 in pdp sd with noght sights. I did this because of all the issues coming up with the 320

Seems to be an issue with early ones. Mines a 2023 and haven't had this issue myself.

December 23, 2025, 06:32 PM

MacGyver

I can also imagine that Walther will double down on not admitting fault in the midst of these P320 lawsuits. I could live with the issue, but I totally understand why OP and others will not. Just to play devil’s advocate though, in what carry and/or defensive situation would this issue present a problem?

December 23, 2025, 07:39 PM

sigfamilyman_220

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Originally posted by MacGyver:
Didn’t the PPQ have this issue as well? To the best of my knowledge, this was a consequence of Walther “converting” the P99’s DA/SA trigger to SAO for the PPQ (and later PDP).

I'm honestly not sure, never owned one of those models, my first Walther was in 2024 and it was the PDP lol

December 23, 2025, 07:42 PM

sigfamilyman_220

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Originally posted by MacGyver:
I can also imagine that Walther will double down on not admitting fault in the midst of these P320 lawsuits. I could live with the issue, but I totally understand why OP and others will not. Just to play devil’s advocate though, in what carry and/or defensive situation would this issue present a problem?

Yea I could totally see them doubling down same as the 320 issue or no issue lol I own this gun for 6 months and did not notice any issues until I went to a training class and it was as if an assailant was attacking you and we shot at a rubber dummy and pushed off of him with the gun and shot and my gun was the only gun in the entire class that did not go off due to the dead trigger!!! that's when I contacted Walther.

December 23, 2025, 07:43 PM

sigfamilyman_220

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Originally posted by cslinger:
I can’t believe I’m going to say this but……..this is one of the big reasons I dig HK. Their service/communication is pretty stellar. Ohhh how the worm has turned. . Maybe all those folks who hate us and think we suck got better jobs at Walther.

LOL i do love my HK VP9A1F

and the HK 45 compact as i own both, never needed to use their customer service LOL they are wonderful pistols!!!

December 23, 2025, 07:45 PM

sigfamilyman_220

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Originally posted by JonDaddy82:
quote:
Originally posted by 1flynDO:
Shit. I just bought a 4 in pdp pro e compact and a 4 in pdp sd with noght sights. I did this because of all the issues coming up with the 320

Seems to be an issue with early ones. Mines a 2023 and haven't had this issue myself.

3 of mine are 2024 models and 1 is a 2025, then the one with the issue is a 2022 model. Agree it is an issue with the early models, however I bought the one with the issue in 2025, it just so happened to be old stock unfortunately and was a 2022 model!

December 30, 2025, 09:30 PM

DaveS

I would send letters to the better business bureau and your local consumer fraud divisions. Companies will often follow up when they are contacted about the complaint.

December 31, 2025, 05:10 AM

DaBigBR

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Originally posted by MacGyver:
I can also imagine that Walther will double down on not admitting fault in the midst of these P320 lawsuits. I could live with the issue, but I totally understand why OP and others will not. Just to play devil’s advocate though, in what carry and/or defensive situation would this issue present a problem?

An entangled fight where the gun is pushed out of battery either through intentional or unintentional contact as or while the trigger is being pressed. The trigger will be dead when the gun comes back into battery and the slide must be cycled to correct it.

I think there is some debate out there over whether this is truly an issue. Obviously they have rectified it, but I'm not convinced it was something that they see as having been "wrong" to start with.

December 31, 2025, 01:08 PM

pedropcola

That is an interesting way to put it. I can see why they perhaps don’t consider it a warranty item if they don’t consider it a “defect”. Merely altering the gun itself, a rolling mod, isn’t in itself proof that they consider it so.

I am conflicted on this one. All mine are post 22 so they don’t do this. Certainly for a range/comp gun I wouldn’t GAS. For SD? I probably would care just b3cause I want as many chips on my side of the table as possible.

I don’t think this warrants blowing up the internet over or selling off all the post 22 ones but I’d be a liar is I haven’t flown off the handle on something that bugged me.

I just wish Walther sold shortened slide releases. That makes me want to go off on them. lol

January 01, 2026, 09:38 AM

sigfamilyman_220

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Originally posted by DaveS:
I would send letters to the better business bureau and your local consumer fraud divisions. Companies will often follow up when they are contacted about the complaint.

Well I did the American thing and sold it used to the gun shop I bought it from LOL and bought a new gun! Im done with Walther, the PDP was my first Walther pistol and it will be my last, I spent around $7500 on 5 PDPs and 1 PPQ 22

January 01, 2026, 09:43 AM

sigfamilyman_220

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Originally posted by pedropcola:
That is an interesting way to put it. I can see why they perhaps don’t consider it a warranty item if they don’t consider it a “defect”. Merely altering the gun itself, a rolling mod, isn’t in itself proof that they consider it so.

I am conflicted on this one. All mine are post 22 so they don’t do this. Certainly for a range/comp gun I wouldn’t GAS. For SD? I probably would care just b3cause I want as many chips on my side of the table as possible.

I don’t think this warrants blowing up the internet over or selling off all the post 22 ones but I’d be a liar is I haven’t flown off the handle on something that bugged me.

I just wish Walther sold shortened slide releases. That makes me want to go off on them. lol

I look at it as a firearm is a life saving tool. Who's to say what, when and how it could happen. I expect perfection in my carry gun period. If its not perfect then its not my carry gun. I purchased 4 other PDPs before this one that were perfect and then got the one with the issue, to me it is a manufacturing defect because I own around 30 pistols right now and none of them do this except for this one PDP and now that I sold this gun used who's to say the next buyer wont figure this out also contact Walther they will refuse his warranty again and then they lost another customer again. Seems like bad business practice.

January 01, 2026, 09:55 AM

parabellum

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Originally posted by sigfamilyman_220:
I expect perfection in my carry gun period.

January 01, 2026, 10:19 AM

sigfamilyman_220

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Originally posted by parabellum:
quote:
Originally posted by sigfamilyman_220:
I expect perfection in my carry gun period.

Happy New Year to everyone and thank you for making this a great forum to have open discussions, this is the best forum on the internet!

January 02, 2026, 12:22 AM

Nuclear

I’ve posted before about my experiences with Walther’s utter lack of Customer Service. I had to replace a front sight that went flying off a new PPQ. I contacted them about a different issue 5 times and never got a resolution. I won’t foist the gun on another shooter and I won’t buy another Walther ever.

January 05, 2026, 08:48 PM

Sig Sauer: For Hire

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now that I sold this gun used who's to say the next buyer wont figure this out

Am I understanding this correctly, you sold this gun to a gun shop, who'll invariably sell it to someone else? Why would you do that after creating a thread regaling all of us with its dead trigger issues? Did you fully disclose the issues to the gun shop, so that they could inform a potential buyer?

January 06, 2026, 07:27 AM

sigfamilyman_220

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Originally posted by Sig Sauer: For Hire:
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now that I sold this gun used who's to say the next buyer wont figure this out

Am I understanding this correctly, you sold this gun to a gun shop, who'll invariably sell it to someone else? Why would you do that after creating a thread regaling all of us with its dead trigger issues? Did you fully disclose the issues to the gun shop, so that they could inform a potential buyer?

I absolutely sold this gun to the same gun shop I purchased it from and explained to them the issues with it and the poor customer service. While I was selling this one also sold a PDP steel frame match, both with 509T on top. It's up to the gun shop if they disclose it to the next buyer. This is 100% on Walther and not me as a consumer.