I still have my pennys lifetime battery. It has been dead for 20
years. where do i take it for replacement? Still have the car it was
bought for.
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I actually just saw something this morning (can't remember where now)
that says they are still honoring their warranty, there are maybe 300
people in the whole country who are still using it. I'd go to a store
or call their corporate and ask.
--R
On 8/31/15 11:30 AM, Curly McLain via
There were some court cases 30-40 years ago on lifetime warranties.
Basically the courts interpreted it as the life cycle of the warranted
merchandise,
for example I think they came up with 7 years for a refrigerator, making a ten
year warranty more valuable than a lifetime warranty.
OTOH, last
..Not if they have a drain plug, which most of the older ones do. Not sure
when this stopped being the norm, I'd guess when they developed lifetime
sealed transmissions...
The lifetime fluid idea went away about 2005 after trans warranty claims
escalated. My '01 C320's 5-speed had no TC drain
...Was the original fluid supposed to last the life of the transmission,
or the
life of the new car warranty?...
I don't recall when MB came up with the bright idea of lifetime fluid, but
I know when it ended which was about 2004 when the change interval became
38000 miles which is what
Dieselhead wrote: A lot of the 150k vs 300k or more trans argument depends on
the
driving. Donald, I suspect puts on a fiar number of highway miles.
Herr Doktor, probably drove mostly city driving. if each car had an
hour meter or a counter for number of shifts, i suspect Mean Time
Before
miles (hanger queen)
'73 Balboa 20
Charleston SC
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My 98 ML has the 5 speed with the empty dipstick tube. It also has the
drain plug on the torque converter, and I was able to drain almost 7 quarts
when
I changed to Mobil 1 ATF at about 123k. Now passing 157k with plans to
change it again in the Fall ( to darn hot right now!)
I went
Hmmm, This makes the $1,800 cost of my Ford Warranted O'haul on my Powerchoke
seem very resonible.
Pete
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My 98 ML has the 5 speed with the empty dipstick tube. It also has the
drain plug on the torque
...Up until a year ago, the MB dealer here was telling everyone that it
had Lifetime transmission fluid that never needed to be changed.
Interestingly - there is no transmission dipstick and no drain plug on
the torque converter
MB backed off from the lifetime term in 2005 and changed it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MB backed off from the lifetime term in 2005 and changed it to 39K miles.
The five-speed transmissions indeed have no converter drain plug but the
seven
speeds do have one. The five speed transin my '01 C320 did have a dipstick
with a locking cap.
Some sealed
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I changed the fluid in my sealed for life transmission today which has
been changed before, about 60K miles ago, but still way overdue.
Without a torque converter drain in the 5-speed electronic transmissions,
only four of the eight quarts can be drained. MB's now
I changed the fluid in my sealed for life transmission today which has
been changed before, about 60K miles ago, but still way overdue.
Without a torque converter drain in the 5-speed electronic transmissions,
only four of the eight quarts can be drained. MB's now two year old change
interval
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