{"id":498,"date":"2012-01-16T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2012-01-16T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T18:01:00","slug":"qa-statutory-rights-when-it-comes-to-laptops-setting-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: Statutory rights when it comes to laptops setting on fire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Question by Jsm<\/i>: Statutory rights when it comes to laptops setting on fire?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My parents bought a laptop what must be close to 1.5 years ago now from a very well know PC outlet. A battery recall was made on the product and the PC outlets tech guys replaced the battery, it has been around a year since that happening, but today their charger caught light, Looking at the battery, it seems like a lesser powered battery was put in, and the lead was never changed. Where do I stand with consumer \/ statutory right on this? Do the PC outlet have to replace the lead? Or does it have nothing to do with them?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by Max M<\/i><br \/>If it&#8217;s 1.5 years ago, it&#8217;s hard to get your laptop fixed unless you bought the extended warranty.  Most manufacturers only cover laptops for 1 year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Give your answer to this question below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question by Jsm: Statutory rights when it comes to laptops setting on fire? My parents bought a laptop what must be close to 1.5 years ago now from a very well know PC outlet. A battery recall was made on the product and the PC outlets tech guys replaced the battery, it has been around [&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":[1423,1075,1424,950,1425,1422],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recalls","tag-comes","tag-fire","tag-laptops","tag-rights","tag-setting","tag-statutory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}