{"id":494,"date":"2012-01-12T09:58:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T09:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=494"},"modified":"2012-01-12T09:58:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T09:58:16","slug":"legal-requirement-for-parts-support-after-a-product-is-discontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"legal requirement for parts support after a product is discontinued?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;margin:5px;font-size:80%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"product recall\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/63\/206630540_f05b608ecf_m.jpg\" width=\"160\"\/><br \/> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30975340@N00\/206630540\">Trenchfoot<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>Question by Herbert F<\/i>: legal requirement for parts support after a product is discontinued?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would like to find out the legal requirement, if any, for companies to support a product with parts after they no longer manufacture the product.<br \/>\nI seem to recall hearing 5 years once, but I&#8217;m not having any luck tracking down the info at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by Lyricoll<\/i><br \/>Go to the website of the product you have and email their help dept. Hopefully that&#8217;s the easy way!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think? Answer below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Trenchfoot Question by Herbert F: legal requirement for parts support after a product is discontinued? I would like to find out the legal requirement, if any, for companies to support a product with parts after they no longer manufacture the product. I seem to recall hearing 5 years once, but I&#8217;m not having any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[499,1412,106,1410,16,1409,1411],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recalls","tag-after","tag-discontinued","tag-legal","tag-parts","tag-product","tag-requirement","tag-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}