Does anyone know are all car parts covered on a guarantee for 12 months after they're fitted to your car in the UK?
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13 years ago
Does anyone know are all car parts covered on a guarantee for 12 months after they're fitted to your car in the UK?
Usually, they're not. Recon tend to be 6 months. Brakes and other consumables have no real guarantee other than fit for purpose.
Conor,
So if you spend £500 on a brand new Cat, and it fails after only 10 months there's nothing you can do? You have to fork out another £500 to replace it? No replacement parts guaranteed? Aren't Cats meant to last a lot longer than 10 months? esp for official replacements direct from manufacturer?
Ignoring the manufacturers guarantee/warranty for the moment, car parts would be covered under the Sales of Goods Act (SoGA) 1979 (as amended) for up to six years in England and Wales, and five years in Scotland - and the contract would be with the supplier and not the manufacturer.
See:
Parts that are found to be defective by reason of a manufacturing fault, material fault or an inherent fault must be replaced by the supplying company (subject to certain provisos) - see the link above.
Well you could complain it wasn't fit for purpose, but that would depend=
on why it failed.
Peter gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
Not unless you can prove that the brand new cat failed because of a materials or manufacturing defect. I would suspect that most cats actually die of poisoning or clogging due to some failure somewhere north; although fuckwittery in fitting or clonking over kerbs can't be ruled out.
cats fail in two main ways: actual breakage, usually caused by speed humps or bad fitting. Or they stop cleaning up the exhaust gases, this is much rarer and is often caused by engine faults which overload the cat.
I would expect that internal breakage NOT caused by physical damage/fitting would be covered under guarantee/SOGA.
What has actually failed on yours?
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