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Re: Original warranty?

To: "Greg Lemon" <glemon@neb.rr.com>, <healeys@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: Original warranty?
From: "davidwjones" <davidwjones@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 19:45:03 -0500
In these times when a bag of airline peanuts carries the warning "Caution:
Contains Peanuts!" -in order to be doubly sure of avoiding allergy lawsuits,
what do you expect?

Dave J.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Greg Lemon
  To: Peter C. ; Healeys@Autox.Team.Net
  Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 7:02 PM
  Subject: Re: Original warranty?


  Peter, Yes, I noticed that too in my handbook.  Also if you compare to a
new
  car owner's handbook of today, that little bit of legalese at the end is
  about it. New car books pretty much are all "don't drink the gasoline"
  "don't leave youre cjhild in the car all day on a hot day" "make sure car
is
  stopped before you get out" "don't stick your hand in the fan belt" etc.
  The old books actually tell you how to work on things and fix the car and
  presume a basic level of intelligence and common sense on the part of the
  owner.

  In answer to your question, then probably they could "do that" now probably
  not.  The manufacturer of products is presumed to know more about the
safety
  and reliability of the components put on the car than the consumer, so they
  could probably not get away with trying to shift liability today.  Although
  my first paragraph is a little sarcastic (but very true), there does seem
to
  be some logic to the asssumption in the preceeding sentence.

  Greg Lemon
  54 BN1

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com>
  To: <Healeys@autox.team.net>
  Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 2:44 PM
  Subject: Original warranty?


  > Whilst perusing my "Austin Healey100" (happens to have a 4 cylinder
  engine,
  > but we know that) "Owner's Handbook", I noticed the warranty disclaimer
in
  > the back few pages. Austin Motor Co. Ltd. clearly disavows any liability
  of
  > many components on the car and provides names and addresses of the
various
  > equipment manufacturers such as Lucas, Champion, Dunlop, Smith, Girling,
  > and Armstrong, to name a few.
  > Fascinating.
  > Can you do that?
  > Just wondering.
  >    Peter C.




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