Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-04-03
Guarantees Are
Becoming Object
OF New Suspicion

Many car owners today. are being
attracted by long time guarantees
when buying accessories, but the wise
motorist will stop to consider whether
ne wants to buy a guarantee or an arti-
Gle of dependable merchandise. More
and more, the American motoris, =
coming to regard the long guarantee
with a bit of suspicion. IF this article
Is made right in the first place. he
says, and the manufacturer is sincere
in his desire to protect his good repu.
tation. why should it be necessary for
him to shout his guarantee from the
~nouse-tops or parade it in front of me
IN ms effort to sell ME his product ?"
Such reasoning is perfectly logIca,
ANY manufacturer knows when he ad-
yertises his product, that he is making
his name familiar to thousands of pros
pective customers. He spends a goodly
number of dollars annually to do this.
and to get value received from this ex-
penditure, his product must live up TO
all that he says about it in his adj
Vertising. A fair guarantee on motor
car accessories is practically impossi-
Bile. because the service which any ar
tiele can provide depends very largely
upon the care which the owner gives it
Any guarantee for a specified length
OF time or specified amount of service
must necessarily be based on averages.
For this reason. the careful man is
made to pay for the acts Of the careless
man.
Take tires as a familiar example:
Two tires of the same make and of
same quality throughout, will be sold
to two men under a definite mileage
guarantee. This mileage guarantee is
based on the average mileage of these
tires in the hands of all users. One of
these tires may go to a motorist, who
never gives a thought to his tires until
they r flat. He runs them under in
flatej either because he does not know
tn pressure in them or he is too lazy to
find out. He rides blightely in the
stretcar tracks or scapes along the
curbing simply because is careless.
The man who buys the other tire gives
it a fair show to live up to its reputa-
ton. He gauges his tires properly,
drives where he should and as he
should, watches the little cuts and re
pairs them before they get worse. That
mar gets real mileage from his tires
but in the long run, he pay for the
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Another striking example is storage
batteries. The average storage battery
will give good service If it is given
good care. The best battery made will
not last its full lifetime, if it is abused
and ignored. The battery which is al
lowed to become dry or is overworked
or Is frozen or overheated must neces-
sarily give up the ghost earlier than
one which has had a fair chance to
make good. The specified guarantee
on a storage battery does the motorist
not one whit of good If it won't start
his car in an emergency. You cannot
crank a car with a guarantee any more
than you can initiate a tire and get
home on it with a mileage guarantee.
To set or time the distributor. fully
retard the spark and set the distributor
gear contact or segment so that it is
just about to leave the No. / cylinder
carbon brush, then mesh the gears,
being particular to see that the break
er points are just at tn. point of open
ing.
Valve stem guides are best removed
by driving them out from the top, US
ing a hard wood block or a piece of
soft metal, avoiding possible injured to
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