24-08-2013, 06:39 PM
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Re: What a stroke of luck
Originally Posted by oldbugger
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I may have survived, but I'll always have a limp 
Barry, maybe the lottery is a good idea
24-08-2013, 07:00 PM
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Re: What a stroke of luck
Originally Posted by Grumblewagon
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I've never taken out extended warranties and although you were lucky with this one, generally they're an unnecessary expense. The result is that any extended warranty is unlikely to be needed unless it extends into the later stages. This also means that they SHOULD be cheap - but they're not. That's how manufacturers increase their profit.
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25-08-2013, 04:20 AM
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Re: What a stroke of luck
Originally Posted by Grumblewagon
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II remember at Uni, learning about the 'bathtub curve' of reliability. Basically, a graph of failure versus time of any device is roughly bathtub shaped. Any early life failures are dealt with within the warranty period. This is followed by a period of relative stability, but eventually, the device wears out and the failure rate rises dramatically.
In line with the advice about the bathtub curve most new items I buy I run for 24 hours continuously, if it is going to fail it usually will during this period. Obviously not practical for something like a toaster but TV, DVD player, PVR, computer etc works a treat.
The good thing about this is that most retailers will replace an item that fails in the first day or two rather than repair it.
25-08-2013, 10:25 AM
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Re: What a stroke of luck
Good luck there Barry. I had a similar one last year. My Zanusi washing m/c seemed to be conking out so I had to search high and low for the buy date. I had three days to go on it and rang them up and managed to get a engineer to come out the next day to look at it. Luckily for me it was just the rubber around the door which had failed and nothing electrical so they mended that with a new one, checked it was OK and said you will probably have many years in it yet. So fingers X.|
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