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Originally Posted by j1a7y
does it mean you have to bring the car to the dealer every time you need a service (or for the 30k inspection) otherwise if something goes wrong it'll deny the warranty?
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more specific than that. Like if your tranny goes at 50K and the trans fluid has never been changed. Not a general "has it had the 30K" but has the recommended service (fluid change etc) been performed on the individual part that failed.
And it doesn't necessarily have to be the dealer for the service/oil changes, but it has to be the minimum recommended certification fluids. And it helps to have proof, like receipts. The dealers keep records. You could even change the fluid yourself as long as you had a receipt from around the correct time, and the fluid looked like it had been changed.
there's also items that don't have any service associated with them, these are warrantied no matter what service you've done.