With all due respect and in the spirit of friendly discussion, I still think JC starts off with an unprovable premise in order to support a position, i.e., that the majority of us are breaking rods stupidly and sending them in for warranty repair/replacement. While I don't deny that's happened, and maybe happened a lot, I don't know how it can be proven to be the major source of rod warranty claims.

Isn't it likely too that some rodmaker started the whole idea of a lifetime and/or no-fault warranty as a marketing gimmick, which was successful and the others followed suit because it worked as a sales tool. Blaming the ORIGIN of this on the consumer just doesn't ring. Some company somewhere had to start that ball rollling.

Lifetime no-fault warranties might indeed bring down the cost of rods if removed, but the likelihood of getting all manufacturers to do it is slim to none, and someone will always try for that competitive edge to sell more products. That's where it all started. It just doesn't make sense that rodmakers started offering these warranties due to customer complaints. It makes more sense that the number of rodmakers and the size of the market created the lifetime no-fault warranty situation when one company created it as a sales tool.

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