Re: Mac's Starter

["Ryan Moore" <baradium@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas R. Elliott Jr." <T_R_E_Jr@domain.elided>
To: "Mac" <mac@domain.elided>
Cc: "IHC Digest" <IHC-Digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 20:41
Subject: Mac's Starter


> -Mac,
>
> ---Didn't you replace the starter on the T'all recently? I could swear you
> had problems, but maybe that was with the 800. Either way, are the
starters
> the same on the 800 and the Travelall? <hint>
>
> ---Parts America sure beats AutoZone. I would take the Checker starter
> before I would consider AutoZone and I would go with the NAPA if money
> weren't an issue. Regardless of lifetime, they are not* lifetime
replacement
> "forever" so to speak. After so many replacements in a certain period of
> time, they will drop you right where you stand. You then will be left with
> two options, swap in the one that was supposed to be lifetime as a core on
a
> new lifetime, or take their crappy starter back out the door you came in.
> Either way, you still lose the well-built starter that lasted 20+ years.
> Sorry, I just don't like AutoZone for my Scout. Seems to me that too many
> IHC owners have had the same experience, and I even on customer vehicles,
> have taken Delco starters back so many times to them, that were less than
a
> year old. Go with Checkers before them and NAPA if you have the $$.
>

Had a friend that happened to, he kept taking it back in every year or was
it six months? (had headers that got really hot), eventually they refunded
the money and told him to go somewhere else when a manager checked on the
number of times he'd replaced it (which technically, they still legally
couldn't make him do it).  He ended up going back later that day and using
his new phone number (he'd been doing it so long that the number had
changed) and getting another one.  Since it's a lifetime warrantee they
can't just drop you and tell you they won't honor it.  They might try to,
but legally they have no ground to stand on.

That's my experience with autozone at least.  That particular application
was a ford pickup...  check the specific terms of the warrantee, they can't
modify them after you get the part.

-Ryan