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Subject:Re: alternators-Bosch or otherwise?
From:Jack Reed
Date:Wed, 20 Mar 1996 16:28:06 -0600 (MDT)

On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Maher, Steve (SD-MS) wrote:

> 
> >I'll probably opt to buy a lifetime warranteed rebuilt
> >unit just so I don't have to go through this again (in another 10
> >years...:) ).
> 
> Make sure you get it from the earlier-mentioned Reputable Rebuilder.
> I just put the fourth power-steering pump in 3 years in my Mustang, all
> under Kragen's  "Lifetime Warranty". I've come to realize that, with
> some shops, "lifetime warranty" means you'll spend the rest of your life
> replacing the thing.  <sigh>

This happened to me too, also with a Kragen starter for my 81 Westy.  
After I brought it back the 2nd time they gave me a new, not 
remanufactured, unit.  Sounds like its time to breathe down the neck of 
the manager (if you want to get that close).

Jack