Do you know how old the relevant locks are? One of my bikes is routinely secured with a Kryptonite lock and I'm now concerned.
Your lock will be the relevant type if the key is tubular.
Ah.
I've just found the following on their website:
"Kryptonite offered the Voluntary Lock Exchange Program for over a year and replaced more than 400,000 locks worldwide for free. However, we are no longer taking new registration for this program."
Drat. It looks as though I need to buy a new lock.
"Kryptonite offered the Voluntary Lock Exchange Program for over a year and replaced more than 400,000 locks worldwide for free. However, we are no longer taking new registration for this program."
Drat. It looks as though I need to buy a new lock.
It wasn't unconditional anyway. They weren't replacing very old ones, or you needed the receipt or something like that - because I couldn't get mine replaced.
Still, 400,000 is an incredible number. Amazing that Kryptonite is still in business!
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It wasn't unconditional anyway. They weren't replacing very old ones, or you needed the receipt or something like that - because I couldn't get mine replaced.
Mine was replaced, no questions, no receipt. Just took it to a FedEx depot with details they provided for free collection and then a few weeks later the new one arrived at home. At the time it was 5-7 years old.
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It wasn't unconditional anyway. They weren't replacing very old ones, or you needed the receipt or something like that - because I couldn't get mine replaced.
Mine was replaced, no questions, no receipt. Just took it to a FedEx depot with details they provided for free collection and then a few weeks later the new one arrived at home. At the time it was 5-7 years old.
Mine was older than that and I wasn't officially entitled to a replacement for some reason or other. I made the mistake of assuming Kryptonite would follow their own rules!
"Kryptonite offered the Voluntary Lock Exchange Program for over a year and replaced more than 400,000 locks worldwide for free. However, we are no longer taking new registration for this program." Drat. It looks as though I need to buy a new lock.
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"Kryptonite offered the Voluntary Lock Exchange Program for over a year and replaced more than 400,000 locks worldwide for free. However, we are no longer taking new registration for this program." Drat. It looks as though I need to buy a new lock.
You could try getting pissy with the Sale of Goods Act. Manifestly not fit for purpose.
Surely it was fit for purpose when it was sold? Just becaseu someone later invents a new way of disabling the lock later doesn't change that?
"Kryptonite offered the Voluntary Lock Exchange Program for over a year and replaced more than 400,000 locks worldwide for free. However, we are no longer taking new registration for this program." Drat. It looks as though I need to buy a new lock.
You could try getting pissy with the Sale of Goods Act. Manifestly not fit for purpose.
I could try. However, that act covers my contract with the retailer and I've now had the lock so long that I couldn't honestly claim to know where I bought the lock.
There's the remains of a bike that I pass on my homeward commute. It had been locked to some railings with a D lock that looks just like the one I bought fromWilkinsonsfor about 3 quid. Over the days I saw the usual damage from wheel stamping, then the wheels went completely. Last time I saw it I was very impressed as someone had clearly tried to remove the frame from the railings by picking it up and twisting. The two arms of the shackle of the lock were twisted around each other 360 degrees but it was still in one piece and the locking mechanism hadn't popped.
Update for anyone who cares. The bike has now gone but the lock is still there. Presumably the council found it easier to cut the frame than the lock. I'm even more impressed.
