About Your Warranty; Other Exclusions - GE 60000 Series Operator's Manual

About Your Warranty

We welcome warranty repair and apologize to you for
being inconvenienced. Any Authorized Service Dealer may
perform warranty repairs. Most warranty repairs are handled
routinely, but sometimes requests for warranty service
may not be appropriate. For example, warranty service
would not apply if equipment damage occurred because of
misuse, lack of routine maintenance, and shipping, handling,
warehousing or improper installation. Similarly, the warranty
is void if the manufacturing date or serial number(s) on
the equipment has been removed or the equipment has
been altered or modified. During the warranty period, the
Authorized Service Dealer, at its option, will repair or replace
any part that, upon examination, is found to be defective
under normal use and service. This warranty will not cover
the following repairs and equipment:
• Normal Wear: Outdoor Power Equipment and engines,
like all mechanical devices, needs periodic parts and
service to perform well. This warranty does not cover
repair when normal use has exhausted the life of a
part or the equipment.
• Installation and Maintenance: This warranty does not
apply to equipment or parts that have been subjected
to improper or unauthorized installation or alteration
and modification, misuse, negligence, accident,
overloading, overspeeding, improper maintenance,
repair or storage so as, in our judgment, to adversely
affect its performance and reliability.

Other Exclusions

1. Wear items such as engine oil, oil gauges, o-rings, filters,
fuses, spark plugs, anti-freeze, starting batteries, etc., or
damage or malfunctions resulting from accidents, freezing,
abuse, modifications, alterations, or improper servicing or
chemical deterioration.
2. Any costs for adjustments, loose or leaking clamps or
connections, installation or start-up operations fuel system
cleaning and obstruction (due to chemical, dirt, carbon,
lime, and so forth) and any failures caused by contaminated
fuels, anti-freeze or oil, etc.
3. Units sold for primary power applications as defined by the
U.S. & Canadian National Electric Codes, whether utility
power exists or where utility power does not normally exist.
* For purposes of this warranty, Prime Power is defined
where the generator is a source of power where no
electrical power is available from the UTILITY POWER GRID. If
no Utility power is available, the generator is considered the
prime power source.
4. Used, reconditioned, and demonstration equipment,
equipment used in mobile or rental applications, and
equipment used in life support applications.
"Rental use" means any use of this product in a temporary
or semi-permanently installed rental application. Once
equipment has experienced rental use, it shall thereafter be
considered rental use for purposes of this warranty.
5. Bodily injuries including death which results from product's
malfunction.
6. Enclosure is warranted against surface rust and corrosion
for the first year of the warranty period.
Surface rust and corrosion is defined as any rust or
corrosion that has penetrated the paint but has not
penetrated through the metal substructure.
Enclosure is warranted against rust-through for the first
three years of the warranty period.
Rust-through is defined as rust or corrosion that has
penetrated completely through the paint and metal
substructure.
Enclosure is not warranted for surface rust or corrosion or
complete rust-through that may result due to improper
installation, damage to painted surfaces that compromise
the paint's corrosion prevention properties, or if the unit is
installed in environments that expose the generator to high
levels of corrosive agents.
7. Accessory parts.
8. Any loss of revenue that is a direct or indirect result of the
malfunction of this unit.
9. Malfunctions caused by any force majeure event or external
force beyond the manufacturer's control or Act of God
such as, but not limited to freezing, theft, fire, collision,
wars or riots, vandalism, lightning, earth quake wind storm,
hail, volcanic eruption, water or flood damage, tornados,
hurricanes, terrorist acts or nuclear holocaust.
10. Any incidental, consequential or indirect damages caused
by defects in materials or workmanship or any delay in
repair of replacement of the defective part(s).
11. Malfunction due to misapplication or misrepresentation.
12. Telephone, satellite, facsimile, cell phone, internet or any
other communication expenses.
13. Overtime, holiday or emergency labor expenses.
14. Any mode of transportation deemed as abnormal in
our judgment, such as planes, ferries, railroad, buses,
helicopters, snowmobiles, snow-cats, off-road vehicles, etc.
15. Any and all expenses incurred investigating performance
complaints unless defective Briggs & Stratton materials
and/or workmanship were the direct cause of the problem.
16. Overnight freight costs for replacement parts.
17. Other rental equipment used while warranty repairs
are being performed (i.e., generators, material handling
equipment, etc.)
Warranty terms effective September 1, 2010 - replaces all undated Warranties and
Warranties dated before September 1, 2010.
313439E, Rev. -, 09/1/2010
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