RE: Commission acts to guarantee UK Consumer rights under the Guarantees Directive

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

Whilst I'm not questioning the economics involved, I have to say, I find
it
a little on the poor side that these various manufacturers are incapable
of
producing machinery which they are willing to warrant for two years.
It's
not exactly confidence inspiring. I have a Peugeot 406 which has
service
intervals of a massive 20,000 miles. My previous car (also a 406)
lasted
6,000 miles between services. It's a reliability that I'm willing to
pay
extra for.

My grandmother's whittering can drive me insane at the best of times, but
I
have to admit: her 1960s Hoover which weighs a damn ton, is still going
strong, and she only last year replaced her washing machine, the dinosaur
in
it's place having worked with only maintenance every now and then for
the
last thirty years. In contrast, a quick tally of my friends and family,
has
probably consigned a good ten washing machines to the landfill in the
last
five years. We have had three dead hoovers in this house, and we have
only
been here six years!

I'm not an environmentalist by any stretch, but I can see that viewing
machines which involve a huge energy and materials expenditure to make
as
commodity items which won't even survive the next parliament is a
really
dangerous path for a society to take...

And whilst we will also begin to feel the impact of the recycling
directive,
I can't help but feel it's a pill we have to swallow.

I.

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