Anybody know anything about cars?????!!

A question that is the bane of my life, which I answer about once a week to somebody- No, the timing belt isn't covered under warranty, however, if it broke within that 12 month period, it would be. 

Explaining the difference between service & warranty is a pain in the hole, particularly as it is something that should be explained to customers by salesmen when buying a car. There is a variety of reasons that this question arises, some people are generally not in to cars, and genuinely wouldn't have a clue. 

Sometimes, the salesman will not mention service at all, for fear of putting frighteners on the customer, particularly if it is an already tight deal. They are happy to just ignore the subject, even though when they speak of warranty to the customer, they are well aware that the customer is under this misapprehension that everything is covered. They know they won't see them for 8-12 months, and in the meantime, they hope to get a better job and not see them at all. 

When the customer does arrive and starts arguing that the service should be covered under warranty, they will be in the furthest away car park, smoking fags, and claim 'That's not what I told him' when asked. 

Sometimes, the customers act like cute hoors, and just claim they were told it was covered, knowing full well it isn't, hoping to catch a raw salesman or service advisor out. When that one doesn't work, the next line is inevitably 'But John told me the first service is free when I bought the car' . That doesn't normally work any more either. 

Warranty generally excludes all wearable items, and yes, that does include the clutch, so brakes, fluids & filters, wipers, tyres and timing belts are all excluded from warranty, there are some exceptions in certain cases, where the failure of a warrantable part has caused the failure of a wearing part, in which case a wearable part can be covered by an associated damage warranty clause, but that's generally the way it works. 

Warranty is for the likes of the engine, the control units, electrical wiring, multimedia functions, water leaks, oil leaks, gearbox issues, switches - stuff that you don't normally change during the lifetime of the car, within reason. 

Not ever answering that question here again. 

Yep. Most timing belts these days would be well over 100k, newer Fords I think are up around 140 or 160k for example. While brake wear is not covered, a brake pad or disc snapping in half (not that it happens often) would be covered too, as would any subsequent damage caused by the part failure. Could be here for a week answering hypothetical questions about warranty to be honest, tis a quite complex subject in the industry and subject to many variances. On a simple level, each case is different and repairs have to be authorised by the manufacturer or the distributor for the country. (which isn't always the case either, BMW for example allow dealers to self determine warranty cases under a certain value).