Originally Posted by
CROSSBOLT
Thanks for the rapid response!
So if I decide to service the trans myself does the warranty become void because I did not have it done at a dealer?
No, your warranty is good. Just don't screw it up what you do yourself. I personally don't / can't keep up with receipts. But I keep a log of maintenance and cost, in my smartphone on the fuelly app. Mostly likely what breaks would be some accessory that never needed service anyway. But say I had a valvetrain problem at 95k miles. When they look in there, even if they questioned my maintenance record, that valvetrain is going to be clean due to my maintenance and quality fluids. So the problem would have to be unrelated to my maintenance. I might still get pinched in some way, but I just can't hang on to stupid receipts long enough that it would ever matter. I don't know if my fuelly records would be respected or not. I'm sure they *could* say they are no good. But that's the chance I take.
The Magnusson-Moss Act protects your rights to maintain your vehicle without voiding the warranty (at least in the states). And, not only does it do that, but let's say you replace your exhaust with headers and a turndown / dump just past the header collector, and then the door handle breaks off at 30k miles. The dealer can't say, "nope your warranty is void because you changed your exhaust." They can't void the entire vehicle's warranty based on an unrelated modification. Now if you go in to the dealer with burnt exhaust valves and you had installed headers and that dump I mentioned, they very likely to tell you pound sand, the cost is on you. And they'd be correct in that case. P.S. Not saying that exhaust described would lead to burnt valves, that's just an example.
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