Getting fed up...

[tom999w]

Well in this age of exploding technology, the best quality manufacturers can predict and produce product life spans with laser-like accuracy. But the other 95% of product manufacturers have gone in the other direction, digressing from making good quality products to making absolute garbage but with higher prices. Example: The front wheel bearings in my truck lasted many years and went bad within one week of each other. That says something good about their quality control in manufacturing. The older Land Rover Discoveries had a life span of 100k miles. At 101k the things fall apart as designed and they become worthless. Thats why you don't see any older Discoveries on the road.
Someone doesn't need to be a wizard to see that we have the technology to make parts quality greater every year, but what we end up with is poor quality garbage and higher prices.

 

[MILO]

I bought front disc calipers for my Wrangler about 10 years ago from Auto Zone with life time warranty one started to drag the brakes some. So I took off the calipers and took them to Autozone and they exchanged them for new ones no charge. I was surprised and hope they last for another 10 if Im still around Autozone has lifetime warranty for many parts

 

[MDchanic]

I bought front disc calipers for my Wrangler about 10 years ago from Auto Zone with life time warranty.
One started to drag the brakes some.

... they exchanged them for new ones no charge. I was surprised and hope they last for another 10...
Autozone has lifetime warranty for many parts.

Remember, all of those "Lifetime Warranty" parts are "Lifetime Warranty to the original purchaser."

That's all well and good for a bunch of old kooks like us, who will keep a car for 20 years, but, statistically, most people who are buying parts at the local parts store and doing the work themselves have older cars, and most of them won't keep those cars more than another year or two before they sell them or junk them. You can bet that A-Z has those statistics honed down very finely, and their "Lifetime Warranty" probably only has to make it past 12-24 months in 95% of cases.

– Eric

 

[Charrlie_S]

And then there is the old lady, in the Midas commercial, that keeps bring her Model "A" in for a new "lifetime" muffler. Of course she has to pay for the pipes and clamps, and I think labor.

 

[tom999w]

Remember, all of those "Lifetime Warranty" parts are "Lifetime Warranty to the original purchaser."

That's all well and good for a bunch of old kooks like us, who will keep a car for 20 years, but, statistically, most people who are buying parts at the local parts store and doing the work themselves have older cars, and most of them won't keep those cars more than another year or two before they sell them or junk them. You can bet that A-Z has those statistics honed down very finely, and their "Lifetime Warranty" probably only has to make it past 12-24 months in 95% of cases.

– Eric

Younger people work on their own cars?? Not where I live. I work with about twenty young people, and none of them even have a concept of what a wrench is.

 

[MDchanic]

Younger people work on their own cars?? Not where I live. I work with about twenty young people, and none of them even have a concept of what a wrench is.

Not sure where you got anything about young people from that message.

I suppose you contrasted "young" with "old" from "old Kooks."
The intention wasn't to contrast old from young. It was to contrast normal people who throw cars away when they break, from kooks like us who keep them going.

All of the aforementioned kooks seem to be old, but that doesn't mean that they maintain their cars because they're old – plenty of old people don't keep their cars going either.

However while you will find a few people like us among the older demographic, the number you will find among the younger demographic is near-zero, so I said "old."

Next time I guess I should avoid confusion by just calling us Kooks.

– Eric

 

[nutz]

My help is 20
Hes good been here for 3 years
And my kid at 13 knows more then the last 4 helpers
Think its coming back around...

 

[Slantsix64]

I feel you man, I just had a coil go out in less then 5 days in the drive through. Sucks *** that LIFE TIME WARRENTY is just a LIFE TIME OF HEADACHES

 

[slantsixdan]

I agree. I can go on for hours about this... I have no idea why people oggle over the greatness of Rock****, almost every part I'd ordered from them was complete garbage.

Been that way quite awhile; thiz from 2011.

 

[TF360]

Yea, I bought those cheap windshield wiper grommets and couldn't get them to go in. The seller apologized. Then bought the nos Mopar Grommets, and they went right in. Just bought Rubber Brake and Clutch Pedal Covers. Same thing, they wouldn't go on and they were hard. The originals are shaped differently, and I found the proper shape online. Plenty of sellers selling the garbage one that won't work. It's frustrating!

 

[nutz]

Yea and you never know till you get it
Bought a roof latch
New one the pin doesn't line up right
Now I need to pull the top with a screw driver to latch it .....old one had a broken latch