Lifetime guarantee?

I figured as much, except I wasn’t sure if it was common for there to be a clause that would allow the issuer of the warranty to back out at his sole discretion, yadda yadda yadda.

(Anyway, read the fine print if the warranty actually matters.)

I purchased a pair of Harley Davidson leather boots a while back. They were great boots, but after long and hard use one of the zippers broke. I took the boots back to the place where I had purchased them, hoping they were repairable, and expecting to pay for the repair.

I was shocked to find that HD had a lifetime warranty on the boots. The cashier gave me a new pair, even though I protested that it did not seem fair (to HD). I ended up buying another pair, different style. Yay, Harley Davidson!!

Dunno if it’s the same in your part of the world, but the above is normally part and parcel of your statutory rights in the UK; if an item is not ‘fit for its purpose’, or not ‘of merchantable quality’, then you have legal recourse, regardless of any guarantees the manufacturer may have granted you, and in spite of their limitations.

Yep. Bright blue machines that turns money into bullet holes. Of course the upfront cost isn’t cheap but they are competetive with the rest of the industry. I’ve been told that one of the reasons Dillon can do this is that the reloading equipment is almost a sideline to the primary business building and overhauling gatling type miniguns for the military.

My bike frame has a lifetime guarantee, from cannondale, a popular American bike company. They stand behind it as well, I’ve replaced two cracked frames with them. Anyhow, a few years ago cannondale decided that they were going to start making motorbikes, because it stands to reason that if you know how to build a bicycle, a motorcycle must be a piece of cake, right? :smack:

So they’re bankrupt within a couple of years, and mountain bikers the world over are thinking that their effectively indestructible rides are suddenly looking way more fragile. I was wondering what good the lifetime guarantee was going to be with a busted company, but cannondale make good bikes, and their cycling brand was apparently strong enough to keep the wolf from the door and pull them back from the brink.

As an aside, I heard that their motorcycles were also very good, but competing with honda/yamaha and suzuki is a totally different story to the relatively small world of bicycle manufacturers.