What You Need to Know About Power Tool Warranties
Everyone from weekend warriors to full time carpenters and construction workers use hand tools. Nearly all come with manufacturers warranties that will cover any repairs or defects in the tools for a certain amount of time, usually between one and three years. Non–powered hand tools such as the Craftsman line feature lifetime warranties. Knowing the warranties of your power tools and also for industry leaders is important to be familiar with in the event you need to file a warranty claim.
You may be left giving away a great deal of money on Makita, Dewalt, or Bosch on your tools when you could be having the tool fixed with warranty and not spend a dime. Warranties aren’t always coveralls, like if you drop your implement in water or if you really want to have some back-up parts available. In this article, we will explore the warranties of makers of a few of the most dependable types of tools currently on the market: Makita, Bosch and Dewalt.
The Makita website lists warranty information. Every implement they design comes with a 1-year warranty and a 30-day satisfaction guarantee. The 30-day satisfaction guarantee promises that if a buyer of a implement is dissatisfied with the implement for any reason, they can bring back or exchange the implement within 30 days of the purchase date. The 1-year warranty covers the implement for defects in the manufacturing of the tool for one year from the purchase date. If your Makita implement is still covered by warranty, you can take it to an authorized repair center or send it in to the factory and Makita will service it.
The really great thing about Makita tools is that if something happens to your tool, they have a full service center where you can send your tools for repair. Often when tools break, people try to diagnose the problem and fix the tool themselves. This can be bad for two reasons: one-being unfamiliar with Makita parts you could break the tool further and two-you could void the warranty. The warranty only covers tools that are not damaged as a result of normal wear and tear, that have not been altered in any way, and that have not been misused or abused. If this is the case and your warranty is no longer valid, you will probably have to purchase the Makita parts on your own in order to repair it.
Information on the Bosch website shows that they offer a very similar warranty and guarantee to that of Makita. New Bosch tools have a 30-day money back satisfaction guarantee and a one year warranty on service and Bosch parts. Similar stipulations apply to the Bosch warranty as they do with Makita. The warranty is void if the tool has been: “misused, carelessly handled, or misrepaired by persons other than Seller or Authorized Service Station”. By filing a claim you must return the tool to an authorized service center or to Bosch and they will repair the tool and replace any Bosch parts free of charge. If you void the warranty or the tool is out of warranty you may purchase the Bosch replacement parts and repair the tool yourself or take it to a repair center and pay for the repair and Bosch parts out of pocket.
Dewalt tools generally have longer warranties than Makita and Bosch. Dewalt tools have a three year warranty covering the tool and Dewalt parts from defects in material workmanship. Dewalt products also provides a one year free service warranty that allows Dewalt to maintain tools and replace Dewalt parts that are worn from normal use, during the first year of purchase. This is a important warranty for Dewalt users to find out about because during the first year if anything goes wrong for any reason, Dewalt will replace and install the Dewalt parts without charge. Dewalt also provides free maintenance and repair on Dewalt parts for an entire year. After that, the implement and Dewalt parts are covered from craftsmanship defects for another two years.
No matter what tools you own and use, remember that it’s key to know the warranty you have on your implement. Service and replacement parts can be expensive and it can
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