Gotcha Main. Do you think 6 months is acceptable for a new high quality starter? Seems short for me. Good thing it's not going on during the off season. The warranty would be over before you are in the water!
Absolutely. There was a time, not too long ago, where nothing auto-electric related had any warranty. And go figure the stuff lasted 30+ years instead of 6 months. Heck the Denso alternator and starter in my wife's Acura have approx 250,000 miles on them, in 11 years, with no signs of giving up the ghost. If they fail there is no way in hell I am replacing them with a cheap Chinese made no-name knock off. Her antique Mercedes is a 1979 and at 39 years old and 230k miles it still has the factory original starter and alternator. I replaced the brushes in the alt last year and it cost me $11.67 in parts.
Please do not get hung up on warranties they really mean squat in the whole scheme unless the company behind it is sincere & legit.
Right out of college I was a manufacturers rep in the hydronics industry. We had a line of electric water heaters all with varying warranties and prices. The only catch was there was absolutely zero difference between the long warranty water heater and the short warranty other than the price and a "5 year" or "10 year" sticker.. I other words
you paid for the warranty. All the water heaters were
designed to outlast the warranty regardless of which warranty you paid for. Over 99.9% of them did outlast the warranty but it put a nice fat margin on the bottom line, in a very competitive market, as most people bought the one with the better warranty, thinking they got a better product, when all they got was an expensive warranty they likely never would use.
Because lots of folks insist on buying the cheapest product they can find, instead of the best quality they can find, we recently lost a very valuable solar supplier. Kyocera pulled out of the US market rather than selling crap to compete. Some companies have ethics and reputations to uphold which, to companies like Kyocera, are actually worth something. Kyocera refused to cheapen the product in order to compete.
Over ten years ago I was warning folks to stay away from the copy-cat semi-flexible solar panels made in China. These days hardly a day goes by, on solar forums or groups, where someone has not had a fire or has a failed or under performing copy-cat semi-flexible panels.
I know it is getting harder and harder to actually buy brand name stuff due to shady marketing so you need to have these things clarified.. Just last week I had to explain to a customer that the dead alternator he bought, thinking it was a Cummins/Leece-Neville replacement was not in-fact a branded product at all, just no-name Chinese junk. Unfortunately it was sold as such, in a very misleading manner. He had it installed last September in MA on his way back from Block Island. It's dead and a real Leece-Neville is on order....