DownTime wrote in
:

The full email is pasted below. I am curious to know if they, or any
company can decide to change warranty terms 'on the fly'.

Nope...Read the FTC manual. That printed warranty they gave you with the
car is a binding contract between you for the duration of the warranty
period. They're stuck with it.

A good example of that is my experience with a set of Goodyear tires from
Wally World. I bought the "lifetime warranty" Wally learned his lesson and
no longer offers after having to eat so many of Goodyears crappy radials.
They get bulges in them just sitting there with 32 PSI of atmosphere
inside. I went through several sets of free tires before deciding this was
crazy as they could explode and kill me, so put Kumho radials on it from a
local large tire store and have had zero problems on Kumho tires.

One of the auto dept managers faked an attempt to change my $9.76/tire
extended lifetime-of-the-tread warranty...full replacement on failures, not
prorating nonsense. My offer of a neatly printed copy of 15USC50 2301
et.al. was refused and that ended that nonsense. I had a contract!

See ya in court!