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How much of your week is the warranty claim back-and-forth actually eating?

Nimay Shah

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May 31, 2026
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Trying to get a real read from people who live this, not the vendor brochure version.

The pattern I keep hearing: tech finishes the job, story is thin or missing half the codes, claim goes to the warranty admin, admin kicks it back to the tech, tech says it is not worth his time, repeat. Meanwhile the OEMs are screening harder than ever and denials and chargebacks keep climbing.

So I want to know how it really looks at your store:

- How long does a claim actually take you from repair done to submitted?

- How much of that is chasing techs for a usable C/C/C?

- How much money are you realistically writing off a year on denials?

- Is anything you have tried (WarrCloud, in house admin, outsourced) actually fixing it, or just moving the work around?

Curious if this is everyone's reality or if some stores have genuinely cracked it.