From: Peter on
Does anyone know are all car parts covered on a guarantee for 12
months after they're fitted to your car in the UK?


From: Conor on
On 04/07/2010 23:57, Peter wrote:
> Does anyone know are all car parts covered on a guarantee for 12
> months after they're fitted to your car in the UK?
>
>
Usually, they're not. Recon tend to be 6 months. Brakes and other
consumables have no real guarantee other than fit for purpose.

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From: Peter on
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:47:57 +0100, Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote:

>On 04/07/2010 23:57, Peter wrote:
>> Does anyone know are all car parts covered on a guarantee for 12
>> months after they're fitted to your car in the UK?
>>
>>
>Usually, they're not. Recon tend to be 6 months. Brakes and other
>consumables have no real guarantee other than fit for purpose.

Conor,

So if you spend £500 on a brand new Cat, and it fails after only 10
months there's nothing you can do? You have to fork out another £500
to replace it? No replacement parts guaranteed? Aren't Cats meant to
last a lot longer than 10 months? esp for official replacements direct
from manufacturer?
From: Duncan Wood on
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:38:05 +0100, Peter <inc(a)ztec.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:47:57 +0100, Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 04/07/2010 23:57, Peter wrote:
>>> Does anyone know are all car parts covered on a guarantee for 12
>>> months after they're fitted to your car in the UK?
>>>
>>>
>> Usually, they're not. Recon tend to be 6 months. Brakes and other
>> consumables have no real guarantee other than fit for purpose.
>
> Conor,
>
> So if you spend £500 on a brand new Cat, and it fails after only 10
> months there's nothing you can do? You have to fork out another £500
> to replace it? No replacement parts guaranteed? Aren't Cats meant to
> last a lot longer than 10 months? esp for official replacements direct
> from manufacturer?

Well you could complain it wasn't fit for purpose, but that would depend
on why it failed.

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Duncan Wood
From: Adrian on
Peter <inc(a)ztec.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

>>> Does anyone know are all car parts covered on a guarantee for 12
>>> months after they're fitted to your car in the UK?

>>Usually, they're not. Recon tend to be 6 months. Brakes and other
>>consumables have no real guarantee other than fit for purpose.

> So if you spend £500 on a brand new Cat, and it fails after only 10
> months there's nothing you can do?

Not unless you can prove that the brand new cat failed because of a
materials or manufacturing defect. I would suspect that most cats
actually die of poisoning or clogging due to some failure somewhere
north; although fuckwittery in fitting or clonking over kerbs can't be
ruled out.