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 Posted: 16:11 - 20 Jun 2011  Post subject: Car service- Warranty? |
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Hi, does anybody on here know anything about nissan warranty?
basically my car (nissan pixo) needs a service and i was wondering if taking it to a local garage for one will invalidate the warranty. Nissan are asking for £200 to service it which takes the piss!
 for anybody who knows 
thanks, dan.
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| Posted: 16:55 - 20 Jun 2011 Post subject: |
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thanks for that 
have some
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And they don't even have to use genuine parts.
Anything that meets oe spec is fine
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Yeah there was some legislation passed about this recently - you can basically have anyone service your vehicle but it's gotta be done correctly and you'll void your warranty only if something breaks as a result of poor third-party servicing.
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Yup. You can get a quote elsewhere, then ask the Nissan garage if they want to change their answer. Depending on how busy they are, you might get a main dealer stamp in your book for at or close to the price of an independent.
Personally, I'd rather give my local indie bloke the business though.
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| Marmalade wrote: | And they don't even have to use genuine parts.
Anything that meets oe spec is fine |
In truth, I don't find there's that much difference in price between OE parts and quality pattern ones, in some cases the pattern parts are more expensive.
As an exercise, I recently compared a shopping basket of parts (oil/air/fuel filter, plugs, front brake pads) from our three main pattern suppliers and some main dealers; in most cases, there wasn't more than a tenner between them, with the biggest difference being in the price of brake pads, usually, but not always, in favour of the pattern parts.
Once you start getting into bits that aren't normal service items (discs, clutches, ball joints etc) the difference between OE and pattern can be more marked, but so can the quality.
In practice, although dealers can't refuse warranty claims on cars that have been serviced outside the network, they can make life more difficult, so we just use factory service parts, then there can't be any argument.
Going back to the OP, down here in London, £200 for a main dealer service doesn't sound that expensive.
Labour rates are typically close to, or well beyond, £100 ph, so once you take out the VAT, that looks like an hour and a bit for labour, plus the parts.
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