Time Traveller
Registered user
Warranty is different from Consumer Rights. The terms of a Warranty can be anything they want, so if they state it must only be serviced in months ending in a "y", then that is fine. This isn't the same as consumer rights.
The law defends your consumer rights, and the fact that doing you're doing your own servicing using "approved parts" etc. won't affect your legal rights. But you would have to be "competent".
In the event of a dispute, it would then be down to the courts to decide what the definition of "competent" is, and whether you actually are...or not.
And whether the parts are approved or not (eg would a DID chain be acceptable substitute part...probably not a shaft drive
rather than an actual BMW one... ) or Halfords oil is acceptable Vs BMW approved oil...
...oooh it could get interesting
The law defends your consumer rights, and the fact that doing you're doing your own servicing using "approved parts" etc. won't affect your legal rights. But you would have to be "competent".
In the event of a dispute, it would then be down to the courts to decide what the definition of "competent" is, and whether you actually are...or not.
And whether the parts are approved or not (eg would a DID chain be acceptable substitute part...probably not a shaft drive
rather than an actual BMW one... ) or Halfords oil is acceptable Vs BMW approved oil......oooh it could get interesting
