At 09:10 PM 7/10/2006 -0700, BA wrote: >2) A rebuilt starter - the obviously broken bits are fixed and the >old bits are fixed/replaced. > >3) A re-manufactured starter - the outermost case is retained and the >interior bits are all new. There's actually a rather curious situation here in the US. *With specific application to automotive parts and IIRC only automotive parts*, under Federal Law the word "rebuilt" means exactly the same as the word "remanufactured" and their mutual meaning is that broken things shall be repaired and completely worn-out things shall be restored. *PARTIALLY* worn-out things *may* be restored at the entire discretion of the rebuilder. I seem to remember thinking as I read it that they were making it a matter of nice judgment to distinguish the lofty rebuilt from the sniveling merely repaired. I have seen this law with my own eyes, and I have read the letter from the lobbyist representing the used-parts industry association, specifically reminding congress on their behalf that under Federal law those words mean the same so we should be permitted thus-and-so usage since officially it couldn't possibly be misleading. So individual merchants may possibly not, but I'm quite confident the industry as a whole certainly does know. The other term defined was "factory rebuilt" which means that the item in question was rebuilt in a rebuilding factory. No implication of whose factory or what it normally rebuilt on weekdays, sort of thing. david -- David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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