Warranty Claims

[Community Alumni]

Here's a good laugh for you. Here's an article with some of the most ridiculous warranty claims.

Link

[Jarlaxle]

My friend bought a new car a while back...a loaded (everything but auto trans and sunroof) Nissan Sentra SE-R Spec V, bought it new, had ~15 miles on it. The clutch was totally gone (car would not move at all!) by 8k, the dealer basically accused him of abusing it. (Note: he put over 100K on the clutch of his Subaru GL, which had 90K on it to begin with!) The clutch went on the highway in 6th gear...totally gone in the space of 30 seconds.

It HAD to be a factory defect, but Nissan flat refused to fix it.

[Fordlover]

My favorite was the Mustang that was brought into the service department, both airbags deployed, no body damage at all.

Once it was up on the lift, it was obvious the vehicle had been jumped, hard...the engine cross member was scraped really badly and deformed an inch or two.

Eventually the story came back that they were jumping it over a rail road crossing. Warranty denied...

[BenK]

"........Just makes you wonder doesn't it. What are people thinking?........"

Well...common sense isn't all that common...or that we even have advisors here
telling folks to lie...tuners are my guess to the #1...#2 would be deleting
smog equipment/components

That is fraud, IMHO

Then folks wonder why OEMs/Dealers are so hesitant to provide warranty



Funniest personal was while waiting in line at a fast food burger joint...a guy
came in yelling that his burgers & fries were stale. Really yelling and making a
fuss

The manager came out and asked what the problem was

That guy yelled at the top of his lungs of how poor the food was and wanted his
money back

Manager asked to see the food and the guy showed him the bag with half eaten
burgers and fries (more than one burger)

Manager asked him when did he purchase this...the guy said just a few minutes
ago through the drive through

Manager said that he would have to go through the drive through to get his
money back...

I got it, as that McD's did NOT have a drive through....that guy didn't come
back while I was still in there...

[ScottG]

Just makes you wonder doesn't it. What are people thinking?

I had a co-worker that commented to me that she had never changed the oil in her new Honda Prelude (40K miles). She went on to explain that with her last car she changed it regularly and the head gasket blew at 100000 miles.
:S :S :S

The sad part is that I saw her drive away and I could see a blue haze from the tail pipe.

I pity the dealer rep who has to deal with people like that.

[Campfire_Time]

It was both funny and interesting. Thanks for the link.