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Topic: warranty question
Posted By: Les Royer
Subject: warranty question
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2018 at 8:36am
When I buy a used car with onkly 20,000 miles on it and also buy undercoating with a lifetime rust protection warranty for as long as I oiwn the car, an the dealership gets bought out by a rival local dealer, does the new dealership have to honor the warranty?


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Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2018 at 8:44am
Try finding a “Zebart” place anymore. I had an 85 vehicle done new and in the late 90s I tried to follow up on the so called lifetime warranty and there wasn’t a Zebatr place anywhere around.

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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2018 at 8:48am
sigh...read the fine print....
I'm betting NO...
unless the new place took on ALL the 'contracts and obligations'.
a quick call to the new owner should confirm/deny.
hmm IF the undercoating was through a 3rd party, they might honour it......
fine print...gotta be in the 'fine print'.


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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2018 at 6:49pm
was the undercoating a DEALER OPTION, or was it promoted by the MANUFACTURER.. FORD or GM might warrant it.......... but not if it was a DEALER deal.

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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2018 at 12:05am
i'm thunk'in…..nope


Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2018 at 12:07am
that's how most of the "lifetime warranties" on stuff sells, they sell it, then go out of business or change the business names and then they don't hafta warranty nuthin!


Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2018 at 8:34am
It depends on WHO is backing the warranty. The Ford dealer I'm at was bought out prior to me starting there and when the new owner bought the dealership, all he bought was a building and inventory. The previous owner's were a little shady, selling extended warranties, but not actually activating them. As long as you came back to where you bought the car, you didn't know. If you went somewhere else, you found out you had been swindled. When people call and want to know about their warranty, they are told to contact the previous owner's at their used car lot location.

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Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2018 at 10:57am
Originally posted by shameless dude shameless dude wrote:

that's how most of the "lifetime warranties" on stuff sells, they sell it, then go out of business or change the business names and then they don't hafta warranty nuthin!


Why did you have to tell me that!!!!!!!!!!  My wonderful just spent a pile of my money on extended warrenty on the new to us Toyota.

Oh I guess I knew that before you told meWink. But it still may be a good deal for meLOL, when it coughs or sputters she call THEM not meLOLLOLLOL.


Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2018 at 11:32pm
a friend of mine bought a used ferd for his kid one day, and paid over $2000 to the dealer for an extended warranty. about 3-4 months later the tranny went out of it. when he brought the paperwork for the extra warranty to the dealer, the dealer told him they couldn't cover the tranny cuz on the title for the car it had that "S" on it saying it was a salvage title, and they don't cover salvage vehicles! last I knew there was a lawsuit, haven't heard of any outcome yet!



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