georgerace
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Posts: 788
Location: Albion, MI
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 Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:06 am Post subject: What is your propeller warranty? |
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As many of you already know, N73EX was completed and certified a couple of weeks ago. After doing some taxi tests and static run up's I discovered a split in one end of the propeller. It is a wood Sensenich 62 inch.
I just heard back from the factory: "that more than likely a crack was induced prior to running the engine up, which then became much worse once the propeller was loaded. Possibly from handling."
They were very gracious in that I am getting a replacement at their cost, even thou it is way out of warranty.
There may be a lesson here to be learned. I have had the prop, stored in it's shipping box on the shelf for over 2 years. The warranty on the prop was 6 months or 50 hours from date of sale, whichever comes first. I would have been better served if I had waited to have the prop shipped in just before I needed it. That way at least there would have been a factory warranty in case of any problem situations.
The prop came along with my Firewall Forward Kit and it never even occurred to me that it would be out of factory warranty long before I ever took it out of the box.
Thank goodness, Jabiur USA allows you to notify them at the first engine startup, and then officially starts the warranty, or I would have had a 2 year out of warranty engine as well. Thanks to Pete for providing that provision with the sale of the FWF kit.
Hopefully this will prevent someone else from going thru this kind of a situation.
George
N73EX
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