Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:19:38 -0700
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Merffler options?
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It seems to me that Big Business is already working on getting the
Government to make it difficult/expensive to keep our cars for this "longer
time" you mention. And we, the vehicle owners, just go "Oh well, it's the
law". They (California leads the way, the other states follow) seem to be
trending towards changing rules now without providing for any
'grandfathering' of vehicles built before the new rule...They've begun
laying the financial burden of getting a "variance" to a recent new rule
right on the owners of older vehicles..
So even though we'd LIKE to keep an effective, paid-for, good running
vehicle with plenty of useful potential miles left in it, it becomes
easier/less expensive to "junk it" and go buy a new, "better" one that
complies with all the newest rules. Good for the auto industry and good for
the politicians they've paid to pass the rules. ..not so good for us.
Midas' Lifetime Warrantee probably would only have to last half a dozen
years from now...then the vehicle with the Midas muffler will become
legally "inconvenient" to keep on the road because it won't "comply" with
the newest rules any longer.
Don Hanson
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:39 PM , Dennis Haynes wrote:
>
> The Midas lifetime warranty is a bit of a "come on"
>>
>
> We all recognize that the business premises of "life time" warranty,
> whether Midas or anyone else, is that most folks will (1) lose the
> paperwork, (2) sell the vehicle (these warranties always say "to the
> original purchaser"), or (3) just forget. I was told at a tire shop
> that offers a free replacement road hazard warranty that they are able
> to do that because they simply get almost no claims. It's not that
> tires don't fail due to damage, but that most folks even forget the
> warranty exists, or the vehicle the tires are on gets sold. Wonder how
> that is going to play out with the much longer times that folks are
> keeping cars (according to national data, not just my perception).
>
> On the other hand, my brother bought tires from that company, and has
> now had two replacement tires because he drives on rough roads.
>
> But, if one enforces the warranty, will Midas weasel? Wouldn't seem to
> make business sense.
>
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