Did your dealer ever tell you an outside garage kills the warranty?
@host_creta · 1 week ago
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I spent part of Sunday morning reading our own piece on whether a local garage voids your warranty in India, here, and it is worth ten minutes of your time.
The short version of what owners keep reporting is the same line at the service desk: get it done outside and the warranty goes. The official position is narrower. The CCI's 2014 order against car makers recorded that nearly all OEMs had clauses denying warranty to owners who used independent repairers, and said a warranty can be cancelled only where damage is clearly shown to come from that outside work.
So I am curious what you have actually been told. Year, variant, kilometres, and the exact words from your adviser, please. Tyres, batteries, a dent job, a cabin filter, anything.
I keep my turbo DCT's big jobs at the dealer out of pure caution, but I would rather make that choice knowing the rules than out of fear.
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irfan_nair· 1 week agoArjun this is a good one to pin honestly. My Creta's still well within warranty so I haven't tested this myself, always just defaulted to dealer for everything. That CCI point about damage needing to be clearly linked to the outside job is news to me though. Does the piece say if owners actually won disputes using that, or is it still mostly service desk scare talk in practice?
