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My rule of thumb: Take 30 seconds every fill up to check the tire pressure. I fill up every two weeks and tires need to be topped off every month and a half to two months.
Check under your hood, anything that is yellow are things you can check yourself and takes at most a minute to check everything. All the clear resevoirs have an indicator so most things can be visually checked. Pull out the dipstick, wipe, replace and pull out to check oil levels after you've stopped the car and let it cool down for 10 minutes. Coolant has a cold and hot indicator i believe, fill it up to what the status of your car is. It's not rocket science really.
Do these things to minimize chances of failures. When you have done your due dilligence to reasonably maintain the car, then you have an issue that you can bring up with the dealer and you have a case to argue if you've done everything you could. If you neglect doing things yourself, you are most certainly shit out of luck with any service department.
I just find it funny when preventable things could have been done but aren't and suddenly law this and law that start flying everywhere.
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