Life time warrenty

[straycat]

Its not just thin paper, due to this country deciding everything needs to be overly electronic, the receipt printers are now thermal printers. So after a while of being in the heat, cold, and repeat cycles you can no longer read the receipts. So there's really no point in keeping them anymore as in a few months time you won't be able to read them anyhow.

The whole lifetime warranty thing isn't all that great, they give you those receipts that act like they were printed with disappearing ink for a reason, no receipt no warranty. I don't bother paying extra for lifetime warranty crap. Oftentimes if the product is going to fail it will fail soon after purchase not years down the road from defects of the product. Product defects show up relatively soon in a part's life not years down the road, so they think they got your money when you go paying extra for that "lifetime warranty". If you sell the vehicle that warranty ends as well, receipt or not, the new owner didn't buy the product, so they have to buy it again anyways.

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I tell you, guys. Many years back I started to take those new receipts and scanned them and printed them out so I would never have to worry about that ink fadding from the receipts anymore. You just need to do that. I left my battery receipt from Nappa in my 89 BII when I bought my new battery there. My 89 BII had 59,000 on it and the original battery needed to be replaced. I bought the BII brand new in 89.
Well, 3 years later my Nappa battery started to get weak and I got out the receipt and I could not read it anymore!! I went back to Napa and they looked me up in their system and saw when I had bought the battery and they said I still had 2 years left of warranty on it. I got another one from them and when I got home I scanned the receipt and printed it out...just in case and I have been doing this ever since. At least they were honest with me and I got another battery for a few bucks instead of paying the full price for another one.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

As far as I know, AZ is the only company that keeps warranty info on their computer system and is accessible in any store in the country.

Advance will give you static about using a lifetime warranty and you have to go back to the one you purchased it at or have the receipt.

I often buy lifetime warranty stuff if it's available since I plan on keeping my trucks a LONG time. If the price is too ridiculous though I'll buy wherever. Bought a TON of stuff from Rockauto because I could get quality parts reasonable. I bought new motor mounts for my F-150 from them because they were less than half the price of lifetime warranty ones from AZ and they were made by the same company (Anchor). Seemed stupid to pay twice as much just for the warranty.

And no, they expect that most people will only keep a vehicle for 5 years and the lifetime warranty is non-transferrable.

 

[4.0B2]

I've never had issues with Advance Auto.... anywhere in MS with warranties