Don,
What have you seen if the field with the Re-Pop felt kit? My first kit did not make 4 years. I mean by it dry rotted, cracked and broken off along the side windows.
Re-Pops warranty is vague too.
Lifetime Warranty
Montco Mfg., being represented by its registered trademark, REPOPS, guarantees its reproduction window weather-strip and glass run channels to be AMERICA'S MOST EXCELLENT REPRODUCTIONS. All reproductions being manufactured with the best and closest to original appearing materials currently available. We guarantee our FELTKITS brand name window weather-strip and glass run channels to look, perform, and last like the original parts that came on your vehicle. "LIFETIME" being defined as the lifetime that the purchaser owns the vehicle that the registered part is installed upon. No Transfers will be accepted.
REGISTRATION: ONLY FELTKITS brand window weather-strips and glass run channels that have been registered within 30 days of purchase will be warranted.
All registrations must be made using the form attached to the warranty. Montco Mfg. reserves the right to refuse any warranty that appears to be fraud or fictitious in any manner, including conditions where a part appears to be damaged by improper installation or abuse during its use, but not excluding any other circumstances other than normal wear and tear due to age and usage.
" last like the original parts that came on your vehicle." How long is this? 10 years? 15 years?
mustang7173
REGARDING REPOPS BELTLINE W-STRIP KITS
I have heard complaints that the w-strips are not as wide as the originals.
But they are modeled after the early 71 that used the supplement strip.
Most people don’t want to spend the extra on the supplements.
I have not had issues with dry rot.
As for any manufacturer warrantees... well most are going to want you to take the
part off and send it back. Then they will inspect it. You pay shipping.
I have never looked at the repops warrantee card – so if you didn’t send it in, no warrantee.
In some cases what good is it – if they replace one of your beltlines, they won’t match the other three.
Then you have vendor warrantees – laurel mountain mustang comes to mind here. I use to get it all the time. He
offered life time warrantee on suspension parts. How will that work for his customers now?
Sometimes the manufacturer wants the vendor to handle warrantees. That use to be OK as you had customers who
did their whole car with you. You knew them and their parts. Nowadays some customers can’t remember who they bought
stuff from the last time, it was whoever popped up on the computer first.
I have had returns and the receipt was not mine
Also if you got four years out of the beltlines I think they exceeded the life expectancy of a new 71 Mustang.
I think they were made to last three years
REGARDING DCMR W-STRIPS NO PROBLEMS OF LATE
Did have length issues on 71 door w-strips years ago - they fixed that