Your equipment breaks down just after the Warranty runs out, if it's not happened to you; it might soon. In conversation with an 'Electronics repair department' man in a Major Department Store recently he said; " it's amazing just how often this happens".
A Japanese technician told me a few years ago that their manufacturers were already doing research on how to make components fail after a set time. Some years ago the government here stopped light bulbs having the filament 'indented' to make them 'fail' early. So this activity already has a long (and obviously secretive) history, it's called ' Planned Obsolescence '.
Breakdown just after warranty has just happened to me yet again. It' a laptop computer, and O.K. so this time it had a 'two year ' warranty, but should not expensive kit last more than two years three months? Who decides how long a warranty should last? A short warranty must be extremely handy and lucrative for the Manufacturers' Shareholders.
I've been told that sometimes Judges in the 'Small Claims Court' consider expensive equipment should last very much longer than the one year warranty. And it's sometimes reflected in their ruling against the retailer. (Since a purchase is a contract with the Retailer and not the Manufacturer).
Is there any way I can find out what rulings there have been made in court cases, where people have been awarded compensation for the repair to electronic equipment that fails well before the generally expected life of the product? Or does anyone have experience of this situation please.