They could snap, I've had it happen. They may bend back ,they may not, if they snap I am sol. Ain't the only thing that's wrong, the neck pup output is very weak, I mean almost inaudible. The bridge pup is intermittent ( most likely the switch no real big deal but come on) oh yeah the nut fell when I detuned it to get the truss rod cover off, again no big deal but you'd think they'd check things out before they sell them ? I mean I found all this stuff the first 10 minutes of the bass being in my hands.
Weak pickups ? time for a meter... an audible is really just a clue here.
If the magnet does not touch the polepieces of the neck pickup .. it will be weak sounding. It should read 6.5 to 8k or even more !
Intermittant pickups are also dirty contacts on the selector switch and the switch on the mono jack . A piece of sand paper (400 to 1500 grit) wiped across the contact once will fix it .
To fix the truss rods ... I will run a thread on that .
