{"id":28865,"date":"2023-08-04T16:35:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T20:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=28865"},"modified":"2023-08-04T16:47:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T20:47:55","slug":"project-is-jeep-dealer-ratfucking-people-over-battery-warranty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=28865","title":{"rendered":"Project &#8211; Jeep2020 battery dead, replaced under warranty."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2023-08-01~ &#8211; battery fails; at drive-in, 1-hour after arriving, only radio on, try to start just before movie starts, no start.  try 3 times, 5 mins between, no joy.  this is 2nd failure, same circumstances.<br>try jumpi.  jumpi works!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2023-08-04 &#8211; jeep to dealership for battery test; result = dead battery, needs new battery, 440C$ please.<br>WAIT &#8211; mfg warranty start date = 2023-08-31 (per sales receipt); should be covered!!<br>check warranty: battery is NOT listed as excluded from the 3 years \/ 60Kkm section (wipers, brakes, tires, etc. excluded); no other mention of battery in the warranty manual:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-2023-08-04-16-10-51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"846\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-2023-08-04-16-10-51.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"28866\" class=\"wp-image-28866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-2023-08-04-16-10-51.jpg 846w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-2023-08-04-16-10-51-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-2023-08-04-16-10-51-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-2023-08-04-16-10-51-750x401.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-2023-08-04-16-10-51-675x360.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-date-2023-08-04_16-28-23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"984\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-date-2023-08-04_16-28-23-984x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"28867\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-date-2023-08-04_16-28-23.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?attachment_id=28867\" class=\"wp-image-28867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-date-2023-08-04_16-28-23-984x1024.jpg 984w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-date-2023-08-04_16-28-23-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-date-2023-08-04_16-28-23-768x799.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-date-2023-08-04_16-28-23-1476x1536.jpg 1476w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-date-2023-08-04_16-28-23-750x780.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-date-2023-08-04_16-28-23-1226x1276.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-date-2023-08-04_16-28-23-675x702.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/jeep-2020-warranty-battery-not-excluded-date-2023-08-04_16-28-23.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>when brought to dealership&#8217;s attention, they (who??) tried to claim batteries excluded; when presented with the above evidence to the contrary, had to &#8220;run it by his boss&#8221;??; they called back and said indeed, is warranty.  Hurray for us!<br>TO-DO: where is paperwork?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>TO-DO: So I wonder if this is common practice; just say it&#8217;s not covered, every so often someone just pays the bill when it could have been warranty.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>META: this is an excellent example of how I use my blog to document things.  Good tagging means I can find it.  Scans or pics of the relevant documents included.  With a TO-DO tag so it shows up in a tag search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023-08-01~ &#8211; battery fails; at drive-in, 1-hour after arriving, only radio on,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[435,87,1796,1523,140,228,31],"class_list":["post-28865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-battery","tag-cars","tag-jeep2020","tag-meta-2","tag-paul","tag-ratfuckery","tag-to-do","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28865"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28873,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28865\/revisions\/28873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}