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Of course...more U tube that I can't see. She drove her care for that many miles? That's not bad for a civilian vehicle if that's the case. I drove 361,000 miles in my truck in less than the last 2 yrs. I have logged over 2.5 million + miles in the last 15 yrs and that does not include my personal vehicle miles back and forth to work. :biggrin:
 
She bought the 64 Comet brand new. Paid $3400.00 for it, it was fully loaded. That car still looks pretty good. Had like 17 lifetime warranty batteries in it and 7 lifetime warranty mufflers put on.
 
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EBorraga said:
She bought the 64 Comet brand new. Paid $3400.00 for it, it was fully loaded. That car still looks pretty good. Had like 17 lifetime warranty batteries in it and 7 lifetime warranty mufflers put on.
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It must have been loaded....$3400 was a lot of money for a Comet in 1964..just as a comparison in 1967 I bought a Chevy Impala with a 396 c.i.d. 365 hp V8 and a lot of other bells and whistles for $2950. And yes, it could get out of its own way.
 
EBorraga said:
She bought the 64 Comet brand new. Paid $3400.00 for it, it was fully loaded. That car still looks pretty good. Had like 17 lifetime warranty batteries in it and 7 lifetime warranty mufflers put on.
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Ernie, thanks for sharing that was amazing. Now, I am not getting the 17 lifetime batteries. when does a lifetime take a new spin on life. It maybe that my vocabulary is bad? So, there is a limit on the life a lifetime?
 
phillywood said:
Ernie, thanks for sharing that was amazing. Now, I am not getting the 17 lifetime batteries. when does a lifetime take a new spin on life. It maybe that my vocabulary is bad? So, there is a limit on the life a lifetime?
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Depends on who sells it, I guess. Most places are as long as you are the original purchaser of the item, it's covered for your lifetime. Somehow in the 70's they offered lifetime warranty batteries. Now most batteries are 6,7,or 8 year warranty.
 
I see and understand. I think the term "lifetime" is a scam. The idea is to draw you in to something that sounds like the perfect solution...a high quality part that won't wear out. Fact of it is that the parts are no better and quite often worse than dealer parts. The idea seems to be to capture volume sales and the warranty is honored, but only if you have the receipt and even then, the part becomes free, but you pay the labor! <That's the biggest catch too...otherwise the entire idea would be fraudulent in my opinion.
 
Hey Jeff, I agree on the labor part. The only person I've ever payed to work on my car is the tire shop, when I need new ones. Otherwise I do all my own work. Also there are a few company's that don't require receipts for warranty's, just name and telephone number, as it's stored in there computer.
 
workinforwood said:
I see and understand. I think the term "lifetime" is a scam. The idea is to draw you in to something that sounds like the perfect solution...a high quality part that won't wear out. Fact of it is that the parts are no better and quite often worse than dealer parts. The idea seems to be to capture volume sales and the warranty is honored, but only if you have the receipt and even then, the part becomes free, but you pay the labor! <That's the biggest catch too...otherwise the entire idea would be fraudulent in my opinion.
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Jeff a few things I wanted to mention based on my many years working in the auto parts business. Many, many parts that are sold as OE in a dealership come from the same factory that makes the parts the you buy in a regular parts store. They just slap a different label on them and charge you twice as much. And for those of you that take your vehicles to be serviced in dealerships only, keep in mind that dealerships were my biggest customers when I worked commercial. I sold tons of non-oe parts to dealerships to put on their customers vehicles. As far as the lifetime part, the labor wouldn't be covered unless the shop or dealership extended that warranty to the customer. At our store we actually handled many labor claims from garages and dealerships for parts that wore out before their warranty expired. The trick was the fine print. Most of the time the warranty states that the part must be installed by a qualified professional. At my company they were going away from lifetime and going to 1-2 years instead on parts. I always thought lifetime warranty on wear out parts like brake pads was a joke but then I started reading the fine print. The warranty states lifetime warranty against manufacturers defects not wear out and many, many customer couldn't understand that. We always ended up taking care of the customers but it was because our corporation said that we had too. The other thing in the fine print is that the warranty only applies to the first part. Once they replaced the part then the 2nd one only had a 90 day warranty. Hope this helps:)
 
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