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If I have my 2010 Prius to a garage instead of a Toyota Dealership for my maintainence does that void the warranty? I was told that doing so for repairs does unless it is a toyota certified location. I enquire because the dealership charges 110 for the 10K maintainence just a local garage would do it for nearly 60.
No. You can too practice it yourself. Make sure you proceed records.
Tom
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What practice I need to keep for records? Merely the receipt and the listing of what was washed?
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Sorry if I sound naive only Toyota dealerships utilize some powerful scare tactics.
There are very clear laws protecting your rights under warranty. In brusk, a manufacturer can only void a warranty if they tin can evidence that a failure was direct caused by your action. For example, if you decide to tow a trailer with your Prius and the transaxle fails, Toyota might be able to prove that your trailer towing killed the transaxle. On the other paw, they could not say that information technology caused your headlights to neglect.
You need to be able to prove that all required maintenance was washed at the proper time. More often than not this involves irresolute the oil and oil filter, but you can read the details in your maintenance handbook. If you exercise information technology yourself, keep your receipts for the oil and filters. If yous accept it done at a shop, proceed the receipts for that. Brand certain they prove the date and what was washed.

Tom
As warranties are extended and as automobile manufacturers are continually pinched by the current financial state of the world, more than and more are adhering to the factory maintenance. Information technology is critical that, should you cull to perform your own maintenance, your records are completely above reproach.
Example in indicate, I currently have a customer whose 2008 Sentra needs an engine, which came in completely sludged up and with no oil in it. Client swears upward one side and down the other she's had the oil changed by various locations. However, she is only able to produce iii oil change receipts for the 40,000 miles she's owned it. 3 guesses as to whether the factory'southward paying for an engine or not. And then, saving $120 at $10 per oil modify for the 12 or and then oil changes she's missing is now going to price her about $6,000 dollars. A bit of a false economy in my volume.
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Toyota has no requirement that standard maintainence be washed at a Toyota dealership. It does require yous to keep records of the service being washed. Delight think that the appropriate oil for the 2010 G3 Prius is 0W20 and is synthetic. Your local garage may not keep that weight oil in stock, so please insure the right oil is used.
Records include reciepts for the service. Including the right parts are used.

Side note: Even though information technology is not required, I would suggest using a Toyota make oil filter instead of the repair shops standard brand.
You say she'south missing 12 oil changes and was able to produce receipts for three, bringing the full number to fifteen? That's an oil change every under 3,000 miles if the auto has 40,000 miles?
Either way, three oil changes when you're close to 40,000 miles will become a reality at present that the official interval has been extended to 10,000 miles/1 year for the Prius :thumb:
If you register and log in to this web site Toyota Owners Online | Official Toyota Owners Website you lot tin can enter your VIN and see dealer maintenance achieved on your vehicle. The site too allows you to enter maintenance you do yourself or have done by contained shops.
I exercise my own maintenance save receipts for oil and filters and write the mileage and VIN on the receipts. At the site I enter the mileage, appointment, what was done and by whom, and what kind of oil and filter was used.

That's a footling more than than is required by the law, Magnuson-Moss Act, just it gives me a practiced tape that volition automatically be passed to the next possessor.
Sorry 32k -- I wasn't clear. She should have had approximately 12 oil changes and is only able to provide bear witness for 3, towards the beginning of her ownership.
Unless she drives in severe conditions, that'southward still too many oil changes for it to be a warranty requirement for xl,000 miles. Depending on the manufacturer, the recommended interval found in the transmission is either 5000, 6000 or 7500 miles for normal driving weather and that'south what the warranty requirement should exist based on.
Practise you see that there is apparently evidence of non having inverse the oil in that in that location is sludge in the engine? I am certain that there are thousands of qualified experts who will say that, after examining the contents of the sump, information technology is their stance, within the bounds of proficient engineering science knowledge that the vehicle did not have information technology's oil changed often enough. Then she can show 3 pieces of paper that show that many, many months and miles agone, she changed the oil three times. She loses, whether at that place should have been 12 or 14 or 8 changes.
I simply think you might accept missed the point.

Go along a decent record of maintenance in case you accept to counter a accuse of a lack of proper care.
I'yard not talking about that at all, and I completely agree with you. My point is 12 oil changes (every 3,000 miles) isn't the minimum number in social club to satisfy the warranty requirement, as Chris seems to imply ("she should've had 12 oil changes"). If the manual says to change the oil at half dozen,000 miles for normal driving conditions, that's the minimum requirement.