When Lifetime Warranty

[Moparfiend]

Kinda funny kinda not let me know if you can relate or thought about this…..yet lol. If not you will now.

Turned 60 this year with hoards of medical issues and close calls most of my life. Anyways buying new windows for my home (don’t wish that I anyone lol). The sales person said these are the best windows because they have a lifetime warranty. Then it struck me. I used to up until now think man this is great a lifetime warranty. At 60 or older its a freaken weird thing because you start calculating how much time you got left and for a guy like me I gotta wonder if even a 15 year warranty has any real meaning lol.
So two year “extended” Harbor Freight warranties are just fine thank you..

 

[qkcuda]

Sometimes lifetime ends up being the lifetime of the company that sold you the windows.

 

[33 IMP]

Sometimes lifetime ends up being the lifetime of the company that sold you the windows.

Yep. Got a "lifetime free replacement" alternator for my dually. It crapped out two years later..... about a year and a half after the parts house disappeared.
Want a meaningful lifetime warrantee? Buy from a company that has been around all your life.

 

[Dave6T4]

I always took it to be the lifetime of the product. You call for warranty claim, and they come out and look at it and say, "Well, that's the life of that one." . LOL

 

[Big Bad Dad]

Don't even ask me about how roofing shingles are warranted..... GRRRR

 

[Dave6T4]

Don't even ask me about how roofing shingles are warranted..... GRRRR

I paid extra to have 30 year shingles installed when we built our house 19 years ago. I got 15 years out of them

 

[turbine68rt]

Tried supporting a local business (windows) and had them replace a few since they have a lifetime warranty. One of them needed the coil spring lifts replaced due to the spring itself breaking. Called and asked when they could replace it and said it would be $75. I questioned why since they have the warranty. I was told the part was guaranteed but I had to pay to have them send someone out to replace them. I fixed it myself for a fraction of that and installed additional windows myself from that point on.

 

[Moparfiend]

Guys I think you are missing my point. Your talking about warranty and I am talking about mortality. I know it’s a difficult subject but when you come to the realization of what lifetime really equates to with respect to how much time you got left it smacks you upside the head. I was invincible in my 20’s like the rest of us and had a lifetime in front of me. Lived a lot past that and now a lot of it is in the rear view mirror.
BUT you have to live for today and not burden yourself with it either.

 

[Danny Boy]

Agree with Moparfeind - Yes, for some of us, OUR warranty is almost expired

 

[turbine68rt]

Guys I think you are missing my point. Your talking about warranty and I am talking about mortality. I know it’s a difficult subject but when you come to the realization of what lifetime really equates to with respect to how much time you got left it smacks you upside the head. I was invincible in my 20’s like the rest of us and had a lifetime in front of me. Lived a lot past that and now a lot of it is in the rear view mirror.
BUT you have to live for today and not burden yourself with it either.

Who knows, you could live to be 90.

 

[Moparfiend]

Agree with Moparfeind - Yes, for some of us, OUR warranty is almost expired

Lol geeze I am a geezer now officially. I still mentally feel like I am 16. I listen to ACDC etc I am still working on my car but yeah our warranty is going to expire and no salesman can get us an extension on that one lol. You gotta smile because to grow old is a PRIVILEGE….. really it is so many good people die way to young (just kids) including some of my best friends. So a good way to look at your mortality is that every year is a blessing and ya got to remember those in your life that you lost that did not have a the time here that you do. Anyway thats how I look at it partly….

 

[Moparfiend]

Who knows, you could live to be 90.

True I may but what the hell would that look like yikes! I don’t see the person the mirror that I recognize anymore lol.

 

[turbine68rt]

True I may but what the hell would that look like yikes! I don’t see the person the mirror that I recognize anymore lol.

By that time it won't matter, you'll have a lot more memories to look back on than others. My dad passed at 69, mom is still driving and living independently at 85. Whatever time we have left, try to make the most of it.

 

[wagonman]

I remember when Hurst Shifters had a LTW.

 

[Darter6]

mortality.

BUT you have to live for today

Man I hear ya. One day at a time anymore. Had a right hip replacement 2 years ago. Now looking at having the left replaced.I'm not looking forward to it let me tell ya.
Had the Doc tell me they last 15-20 years.That will have me well into my 80's. At first I thought "That All?'
Maybe I won't make it that far.You never know when your number is pulled..

 

[Moparfiend]

I remember when Hurst Shifters had a LTW.

Still have my Hurst shifter from 1978 HS Z28…

 

[Dave6T4]

If I known I would live this long, I might have looked after myself a little better.

 

[xlr8]

If you REALLY want a dose of reality, take a tape measure and open it up to say 100 inches. Now find your age in inches along the tape. If you plan on living to say, 90 or 95, it's pretty easy to see, many of the good years are behind you.

That said, a friend recently told me "Tomorrow is not guaranteed". He's right. Enjoy where you are in life and where you've been. No matter where you are, others have it worse. In the grand scheme of things, we have our family, our friends and our toys....

 

[chtampa]

Kinda funny kinda not let me know if you can relate or thought about this…..yet lol. If not you will now.

Turned 60 this year with hoards of medical issues and close calls most of my life. Anyways buying new windows for my home (don’t wish that I anyone lol). The sales person said these are the best windows because they have a lifetime warranty. Then it struck me. I used to up until now think man this is great a lifetime warranty. At 60 or older its a freaken weird thing because you start calculating how much time you got left and for a guy like me I gotta wonder if even a 15 year warranty has any real meaning lol.
So two year “extended” Harbor Freight warranties are just fine thank you..

Do you still have the Brochure?

 

[Moparfiend]

If you REALLY want a dose or reality, take a tape measure and open it up to say 100 inches. Now find your age in inches along the tape. If you plan on living to say, 90 or 95, it's pretty easy to see, many of the good years are behind you.

That said, a friend recently told me "Tomorrow is not guaranteed". He's right. Enjoy where you are in life and where you've been. No matter where you are, others have it worse. In the grand scheme of things, we have our family, our friends and our toys....

Whats that in CM? I now think metric. Will I live longer in metric? Lol