Is it a VW warranty or an aftermarket purchased warranty? The
aftermarket warranty will issue a contract telling you what you will
need to do including who can service and what parts have to be used. New
car warranties can only tell you what maintenance needs to be done but
purchased or aftermarket warranties have more control.

Be careful if it is a purchased warranty, many will have the following
exclusions:

Anything related to normal wear.
Performance problems, (burned valves not covered as long as engine still
runs).
Failure caused by failure of a non covered part. I.e. Hose failure
causes overheating damaging engine.
Of course abuse or accident.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Jeff Palmer
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 5:26 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: VW warranty? (NVC)

Sorry I know it's not quite friday yet but ...

For the first time ever I own a car new enough to come with a warranty.
A VW New Beetle.  It's time for regular servicing - can anyone tell me
if I am required to have it serviced at the dealer (to ensure the
warranty is valid) or can I take it to my usual VW mechanic?

Thanks