Originally Posted by
RoadGuy
...Also consider that some manufacturer's start the warranty on the items they manufacture after a specific period of time, even if the time has not been sold. This is to limit their obligation under the warranty to what they consider to be a reasonable period of time...
Originally Posted by
RoadGuy
If you were to find a NOS 1990s bike with 7-speed Shimano STI 105 brifters, and you bought it, would you expect Shimano to honor the new warranty on the brifters if it turned out they were gummed up, and not operating properly?.
Wrong and wrong. No company backdates warranty coverage to the date of manufacture. This is nonsense.
If there was a 1992 7 sp. NOS bike, Shimano WOULD honour the warranty of one or two years from original d
ate of purchase - and of course (as you said in your second post) this will not be a simple like-for-like replacement, but probably some credit to purchase SHimano parts... not convenient, but far from 'no warranty coverage'. In fact, when standards change (things like headsets, bottom brackets, axle style) between a bike being purchased new and the purchaser requiring a warranty replacement frame, it is often the purchaser who has to figure out (or pay the LBS to figure out) how to make everything work together, up to and including the purchaser paying for more modern parts to fit the replacement frame.