Keeping Car warranty valid

brazilianwax

crazy_chick_573 wrote: »

normally you don't have to have the car serviced with the people who provide the warranty. in mine and i'm sure most peoples you don't

now that is right (normally).

that isn't how i read your last post.

nomoneytoday

The EEC law called Block Exemption means you can keep your warranty as long as you use approved parts and go to a VAT registered garage for the work.

However, the trade off can be a lower value when you come to sell the car, or the car company refusing to put in a goodwill claim for major work just after the warranty ends..

MonkeySaving?

Be careful too if your are under an HPI scheme, as they generally stipulate that the vehicle must be maintained by an official dealer. If you come to claim after 1/2 the HPI is up (i.e before you hand it back) they will want to see dealer service invoices.

derrick

Servicing ties removed from new car warranties

85/04 14 May 2004
All major makes of new car in the UK will in the future be sold without servicing ties as part of their warranties, following action by the OFT.
The remaining manufacturers whose new car warranties included servicing ties have all now lifted their servicing restrictions (see note 1). Consumers will now be able to choose freely where they have their new car serviced.



From the OFT website

davidscot

brazilianwax wrote: »

That's not true. If you don't service the car in line with the warranty requirements, the warranty is void.

So they are, for the length of the warranty, inextricably linked.

Agreed that the two are linked. Without the service requirements met then warranty null and void so it looks like its the main dealership for servicing until after warranty runs out.

derrick

davidscot wrote: »

Agreed that the two are linked. Without the service requirements met then warranty null and void so it looks like its the main dealership for servicing until after warranty runs out.

You are wrong, check the links in my post above yours.

brazilianwax

derrick wrote: »

You are wrong, check the links in my post above yours.

I think he meant that you still have to have the car serviced as per the specifications, otherwise the warranty is void.

You couldn't expect the warranty to be valid if, say, you didn't service the car at all during the warranty period.

So if it says (as mine does) that the car must be serviced at 4,500mile/6 month intervals, then an annual service (at any garage) will not keep the warranty valid.

derrick

brazilianwax wrote: »

I think he meant that you still have to have the car serviced as per the specifications, otherwise the warranty is void.

You couldn't expect the warranty to be valid if, say, you didn't service the car at all during the warranty period.

So if it says (as mine does) that the car must be serviced at 4,500mile/6 month intervals, then an annual service (at any garage) will not keep the warranty valid.

From his post:-

so it looks like its the main dealership for servicing until after warranty runs out.

brazilianwax

derrick wrote: »

From his post:-

so it looks like its the main dealership for servicing until after warranty runs out.

Uh huh - that's the choice I've made too (but every 9,000 miles I have to have a very specialist part serviced and I don't wanna risk a non-specialist screwing it up).

Nomoneytoday and MonkeySaving? made good points about additional risks as a result of going non-dealer.

Twosheds

read this link:

http://www.boschcarservice.co.uk/osBloc.asp

there's a pdf document in this link that explains the EU BLOCK EXEMPTION REGULATION 1400/2002. This says that manufacturers cannot tie you to getting your car serviced by them any more. So long as your garage is VAT registered and so long as they use equivalent parts (they don't even have to be manufacturer parts), your warranty is still valid. Any garage that tries to tell you otherwise is in breach of the regulations.