Or, the dealership all-ready has the date in mind that they will no longer be in business.
You can't get a warranty honored if that business is no longer three.
I had my 1976 Volare rust proofed via a rust proof sold at the dealership, and the car was done before I drove it away the first time. A few years later, it still rusted out like all the other Volares. I went back to the dealership and asked them to fix the rusted out sections. The dealership told me that “the rustproofing was done by a completely separate company that was not part of the dealership”. And that company has gone out of business. I said that they had sold me the rustproofing, and asked what they were going to do to honor it. The sales man said that they could give me a good deal on a new car.
And then when I was in there shop the same young man wearing the same kind of full body work clothes was using the same type of rustproofing wand connected to the same kind of hose, working in the same bay with high walls, rustproofing someones new vehicle.
So the dealership does not really have to go out of business to legally go out of business. All they have to do is close the business, and then open the business under a new name. Same employes, same location, same sales room, same bosses, same lot of vehicles, just a completely new business doing the same thing the old business did, but without the liability of having to honor any warranties for anything that the previous company wrote a contract for.
Don't you just love the way loopholes let business that know how to use them, put it to the little guy?
The whole thing left me sooooo mad about the way that Plymouth dealership treated me that I said to myself "I will NEVER buy another Chrysler/Plymouth product as long as I live", and I never have.
