How Does Harbor Freight’s Lifetime Guarantee Work And Which Instruments Come With It?

Harbor Freight is thought for being a instrument retailer with high quality merchandise at an reasonably priced worth, particularly in comparison with the opposite bigger house enchancment shops like House Depot and Lowes. In actual fact, as a result of the bought manufacturers are owned by Harbor Freight, the corporate has the correct to dictate insurance policies to assist not solely themselves however the clients as properly. For instance, on all Harbor Freight Instruments, you will have 90 days to return an merchandise for both a full refund or alternate. Different shops normally solely provide you with a month.

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When it comes to a guaranty, most gadgets have a 90-day guarantee. On high of that, for some instruments, like energy instruments, Harbor Freight offers you the prospect to buy an prolonged guarantee, which is beneficial in the event you plan to make use of the instrument steadily. Moreover, the instrument retailer additionally has one other guarantee — a lifetime guarantee. With that stated, how does Harbor Freight’s lifetime guarantee work and precisely which instruments does it apply to?

The lifetime guarantee works the identical because the 90-day guarantee — the one distinction being the time restrict of the guarantee from the date of buy. Nonetheless, the guarantee is on extra than simply the instrument itself. If wanted, whoever enacts the guarantee have to be the unique purchaser. To make use of the guarantee, you will want to point out the receipt, the faulty merchandise, and an evidence of what’s incorrect with the merchandise. We would counsel both conserving the receipt in a secure place or importing it to your laptop, so you will at all times have it. Moreover, if you’re a part of Harbor Freight’s Inside Observe Membership Membership, the shop retains monitor of your purchases.

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It is necessary to know that the lifetime guarantee has limitations. Whenever you current your instrument to the shop, they’ll do an inspection. Whether it is decided that there’s a defect or that it has didn’t work because it ought to, your merchandise can be changed with both the identical instrument or a substitute if the equivalent instrument isn’t accessible. Nonetheless, whether it is decided that the merchandise is damaged resulting from consumer misuse or if the consumer modified the instrument in any respect, the corporate reserves the correct to disclaim the guarantee and the alternative. With that stated, we propose following Harbor Freight’s pointers and utilizing your instruments correctly, so you will not need to cowl the prices of a brand new instrument if wanted sooner or later.

On Harbor Freight’s customer support web page, the lifetime guarantee states that it covers hand instruments. Nonetheless, upon additional analysis, we found it is not all hand instruments. On Harbor Freight’s principal web page beneath the Store tab, you will discover a listing of hand instruments. We wished to test beneath the totally different hand instrument choices and see if the lifetime guarantee pertained to all of them. Beneath hand noticed and chopping instruments, wanting on the Portland Noticed 12-inch Flush Reduce Noticed, which is technically a hand instrument, it’s listed beneath Harbor Freight’s 90-day return coverage and guarantee. Nonetheless, inside the identical tab of hand noticed and chopping instruments, the Pittsburgh 42-inch Bolt Cutters is protected beneath the lifetime guarantee.

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There’s really no clarification as to why some Harbor Freight hand instruments should not lined beneath the lifetime guarantee and others are. Your normal hand instruments like ratchets and tape measures in addition to equipment like sockets and power units just like the Quinn socket units are all beneath the lifetime guarantee. Earlier than buying, we propose wanting on the product web page of the instrument and testing the guarantee data part to get a particular reply in your instrument’s safety plan.