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Foreword
This manual is compiled to instruct KD general distributor to carry on warranty business, grasp
Chery KD warranty policy fully and familiar with claim process, The main contents of the manual
include: Chery KD warranty policy, claim process, claim matters that need attention and correlative
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claim form. If you have any suggestion or advice, please contact with us at warranty@mychery.com.
Special Statements
The following conditions are out of the scope of Chery warranty:
1. The KD general distributor has not signed after-sale service agreement with Chery;
2. The claim is raised from KD Plant or distributors who purchased parts or components made
locally;
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3. After the sale of the vehicle, the KD general distributor has not provided detailed customer
records and information immediately;
4. In circumstances such as fail to follow the regulations in the Maintenance Manual to use and
maintain the vehicle, absence of the Maintenance Manual, or modifications to the function and
data of the odometer;
5. The owner has repaired or maintained the vehicle by her/himself or by garages other than the
franchised distributors of Chery.
6. During repairing, not use genuine parts of Chery or parts approved by Chery
7. The vehicle has been installed with spare parts unrecognized by Chery (e.g. electrical) and the
vehicle has been refitted (e.g. circuits), with damages caused thereby.
8. Damages caused by speeding-drive in break-in period, overload traction and forced-drive
without stop when abnormal situations have been alarmed.
9. Damages of the vehicle caused by special natural phenomena (hailstone, flood, etc.), air
pollution, chemical corrosion and blocks on roads.
10. The vehicle has been used in special conditions, such as competitions, sports and entertainments,
military operations, etc.
11. The vehicle has undergone some serious accident.
12. The true facts have been hidden, or the original status of the damaged parts has been destroyed
on purpose.
13. Damages or losses of parts caused by mal-operations during processes of transportation,
storage and hand-over;
14. Maintenance expenses caused by normal wear and tear of wearing parts (such as friction
linings, wiper blades, belts, spark plugs, tires, etc.); Expenses caused by normal examinations
and adjustments (such as checking and adjusting the idle speed, oil consumption, CO value,
ECU, lamplights, and four-wheel alignment, as well as dynamic balance of tires) and
maintenance (such as regular maintenance, cleanup of engine deposits, etc.).
15. Parts which are required compulsively to be replaced in regular maintenance;
16. Lubricating oils, brake fluid, coolant, cleaning fluid and refrigerants wasted in normal use.
17. On account of KD plant improper assemble or adjustment the vehicle
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Contents
1、Chery
1、Terms
KD factory (hereinafter referred to as factory): a company who is authorized by Chery to
purchase knocked down parts from Chery or its agent and assemble or manufacture with the
said parts into finished vehicles in specified country or region.
CKD: completely knocked down parts
SKD: semi-knocked down parts
KD general distributor (hereinafter referred to as general distributor): a company who is
responsible for sales and service for vehicles manufactured by KD plants.
Service station: service network established by KD general distributors in specified country or
region.
SUB-CKD: Knock down the CKD. For example: knock down the chair into foam、skeleton、jacket
and relevant parts etc.
2、Scope
Applicable for all finished vehicles manufactured by Chery overseas CKD, SKD plants.
3、Definitions
1.Non commercial vehicle means vehicles for such use as official affairs, business and family.
2.Commercial vehicle means vehicles for such profit earning use as taxi, travel, rental etc.
3.Term of warranty:
3.1No matter for completely built up car (CBU) or spare parts, the term of warranty shall be based
on specified year or mileage, whichever comes first.
3.2Warranty is in effect from the date of sales invoice; in case that the purpose of using a vehicle is
changed during the term of warranty, there shall be no change to its warranty year or mileage.
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3.3When T(sales date) > T(production date)+6 months, term of warranty start with T(production
date)+6 months.
3.4 When T(sales date) ≤ T(production date)+6 months, term of warranty start with T(sales date).
4、After-sales Warranty Principle of KD vehicles
In the event of relevant contract (the contract involves the terms of warranty and signed by President
of Chery) have regulate the terms of warranty for CBU clearly, the contract shall prevail; In the
event of the contract haven’t stipulate the terms of warranty, the terms warranty hereinafter shall
prevail.
1.Term of Warranty for CBU
1.1 Term of Warranty
CBU warranty shall be applicable to all vehicles in warranty; the following is the term of warranty.
Front and
Rear Shock 12/30000 12/40000 12/30000 12/30000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/60000 12/40000
Absorbers
Constant
Velocity
12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000
Universal
Joint
Shock 12/30000 12/40000 12/30000 12/30000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/60000 12/40000
Absorber
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Rubber Cover,
Dust Cover,
Support Block
ECU 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/60000 12/40000
Crank-position
12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/60000 12/40000
Sensor
Electric Fuel
12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000
Pump
Throttle Body 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/60000 12/40000 12/40000 12/60000 12/40000
Timing Belt 12/40000 12/50000 12/40000 12/50000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000
V Belt 12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/20000 12/40000
Tensioner 12/50000 12/60000 12/50000 12/50000 12/60000 12/60000 12/40000 12/60000 12/60000 12/40000
Ribbed Belt 12/40000 12/50000 12/40000 12/50000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000
Clutch Cover 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/30000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/60000 12/40000
Control Arm
Ball Pin, Tie 12/30000 12/40000 12/30000 12/30000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000
Rod End
Oxygen
12/30000 12/40000 12/30000 12/30000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/60000 12/40000
Sensor
PCV Valve 12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000 12/60000
Horn 6/30000 6/30000 6/30000 6/30000 6/30000 12/40000 6/30000 6/30000 12/40000 6/30000
3-Way
Catalytic 12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/40000 12/60000 12/40000 12/40000 12/60000 12/40000
Converter
Fuel Nozzle 12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000
Oil pressure
adjusting 12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000
valve
Steering tie-
12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 6/30000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000 12/40000
rod
Brake Disk 12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/40000 12/60000 12/40000 12/40000 12/60000 12/40000
Tension Pulley 12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/30000 12/60000 12/60000 12/40000 12/60000 12/60000 12/40000
Wiper Blade 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000
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Clutch Friction
3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000
Lining
Spark Plug 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000
High Voltage
3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000
Line
Battery 6/30000 12/50000 6/30000 6/50000 6/30000 6/30000 3/5000 3/20000 6/30000 6/50000
Air
Cleaner,Eng
3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000
ine Oil Filter,
Fuel Filter
Remark: 1、Glass, bulb, tire and the paintwork of the
vehicle are exclusive from the warranty. 2. The KD plant should provide the warranty to
local parts.. 3、The terms of warranty for other parts of the vehicle shall be
same with terms of warranty of CBU vehicle.
Horn 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000
Wiper Blade 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000
Clutch Friction
3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000
Lining
Brake Friction
Lining, Brake 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000
Shoe
Spark Plug 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000 3/5000
Other Parts 6/20000 6/20000 6/20000 6/20000 6/20000 6/20000 6/20000 6/20000 6/20000 6/20000
Air Cleaner,Engine Oil Filter, Fuel Filter, Battery ,Bulb, tire, glasses ,paintwork and locally parts are exclusive
from the warranty.
Note: The KD plant should be responsible for the direct and indirect claim of local parts.
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Claim Process
been received.
Note: KD Warranty Claim shall be truly filled as required by Chery in a serious and
standardized manner and filed, with clear and detailed description of fault symptom and
accurate analysis of inspection results.
3、The claim handler of the distributor shall duly import the information of the vehicle for which the
claim has been inputted into computer, take photos for the parts claimed, print Claim
Registration Cards KD.(Claim Registration Cards KD must be filled in English ) This card
shall be hanged (If the Quality Warranty Application Form for KD is available), then attach it
onto the claimed parts.
4、Before 5th of the current month, the general distributor shall review all documents of claims raised
by its service stations in the previous month (1st~31th), and send such documents as
“Monthly After-Sales Claim Summary Sheet for KD Vehicles”, “Claim Registration Card for
KD Vehicles” (English version), photos of claimed parts, and “KD Warranty Claim” if there’s
any to warranty@mychery.com to apply for handling claims which occurred in the previous
month. For any claims occurred in the previous month but not raised to Chery before 5th of the
current month, Chery will not accept except for special cases. The general distributor shall
categorize and bind all claim related documents of the previous month and store the claimed
parts in group by category. Claim documents and electronic files shall be kept for 3 years for
the purpose of random inspection by Chery.
5 、 After receiving claim documents from the general distributor, in case of the documents meet
Chery relevant requirements, Chery will review the documents according to work flow; in case
of the documents fail to meet Chery requirements, Chery will inform the distributor to revise
the documents in specified time. In case of the documents are still unqualified, Chery will
reject the claim application. The general distributor only has one chance to revise the claim
documents.
6 、 Claim settlement: Chery make the settlement of qualified claim documents. After settlement,
Chery sends “Claim Settlement List” to inform the general distributor by E-mail for
confirmation. In case of no doubts from the general distributor, Chery open Proforma Invoice
(It should includes: the general distributor’s seal and claim handler’s signature, if the PI lacks
anyone of them, it will be treated as invalidated one) valued at the amount claimed and sent the
Invoice to Chery by E-mail; in case of any doubts, the general distributor shall contact with
After-sales Service Department of Chery within 5 working days. After 5 working days, After-
sales Service Department of Chery will consider the distributor has no objection.
7 、 Chery will confirm the PI, If it does not meet Chery’s requirements, Chery will inform the
distributor to issue the correct PI and feedback to Chery within 3 working days.
8、Chery will carry out the claim settlement according to the work flow, If the general distributor
have account in Chery, the claim settlement fund will be transferred directly; If the general
distributor have not account in Chery, the claim settlement fund will be transferred to his local
account.
9、Storage、identification and destroy of parts claimed(Please refer to The Storage And Destroy
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Because different countries have different local labor charge lever and custom rate, so Chery will
offer special labor charge standard and administration fee rate for different distributor to adapt the
local status.
Note:
1. KD general distributor should reserve $5000 claim fund as deposit.
2. In view of exchange rate fluctuation causing unreasonable claim settlement , Chery adopt the
exchange rate occuring four months ago .
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Appendix
Appendix 1: Proforma Invoice QCZ05/008/002-1
Appendix2: KD Warranty Claim QCZ05/008/002-2
Appendix3: Claim Registration Card for KD QCZ05/008/002-3
Appendix4: List of Claim Settlement QCZ05/008/002-4
Appendix5: Monthly Claim Application Summary QCZ05/008/002-5
Appendix6: How to take photos QCZ05/008/002-6
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TO Invoice No.xxxxx
CHERY AUTOMOBLIE CO., LTD
Address: 8 ChangChun Road Anhui P, R., CHINA, 241009
Attention: Warranty Division List:
Tel: 086- 0553-5923197 Date: xxxx, 2007
Fax: 086- 0553-5922013
Item
Amount (USD)
spare parts cost
Administration fee
Labour cost
Total
Company Seal:
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Chassis No.:
station
Engine No.:
Transmission No.:
Manufacture Date:
Purchase Date:
Sum
Date of repair: Drive Mileage:
total
Vehicle license plate No.
Part number Quantity Amount
Sort of claim:
Failure description (by the customer)
Material
No.
Claim handler:
5) Model: Fill in the model number of the vehicle completely, such as SQR7160ET,
SQR7240AT, etc., which directly determine the number of working hours claimed
and the term of warranty of CBU.
6) Chassis No.: Fill in the complete Chassis No. (very important and compulsorily
filled)
7) Engine No.: Fill in the complete Engine No. (very important and compulsorily
filled)
8) Transmission No.: Fill according to the actual situation (omit this if not involve
repair or replacement of transmission).
9) Manufacture date: 8 digitals; 4 digits for year, and 2 digits each for month and day.
For example: May 19th, 2006, shall be filled as 2006.05.19. (compulsorily
filled )
10) Date of purchase: 8 digitals; 4 digits for year, and 2 digits each for month and day.
For example: May 19th, 2006, shall be filled as 2006.05.19. (not compulsorily
filled in case of vehicles for commercial use)
11) Date of repair: 8 digitals; 4 digits for year, and 2 digits each for month and day.
For example: May 19th, 2006, shall be filled as 2006.05.19. (compulsorily
filled )
12) Drive Mileage: The actual mileage of the vehicle when undergoing maintenance.
Vehicles having their odometers replaced shall be calculated accumulatively. The
mileage can be rounded to 10 digits after the decimal.
13) Sort of claim: T represents vehicles for commercial use; F represents vehicles for
non-commercial use.
14) Failure description: This is for the owner to describe the problem and needs the
signature of the owner. (compulsorily filled in detail)
15) Approval result: It shall be filled out in detail. The procedures and results of
removing the problem shall be filled accurately based on the facts. Professional
terms shall be adopted when describing the status, causes, results and means of
removing the problem of the failure parts. For two or more failures without
relations, the distributor shall describe different failures in different forms, that
is, one piece of Claim Registration Card shall not apply for two claims of
different failures.
16) KD general distributor No.: Fill as per the actual situation. This number is
regulated uniformly by Chery.
17) Number of the application form: 10 digitals in total: Year, Month (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
digits); Serial No. (7, 8, 9, 10 digits). For example, to the claims occurred in May
2005, the first Claim Application No. shall be 2004050001; the number of the
application form of every “Claim Registration Card for KD Vehicles” of each
KD general distributor is unique.
18 ) Damage No: Made up by four digitals, the first two is for the code number of
main group, and the last two is for the number of parts. For details, please refer
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to the “Labor Time Quota”. When a same failure involves several parts damaged,
the code of main damaged part shall be filled as Damaged Parts Code, without
filling the code of the rest parts. When several different failures are to be repaired
on the same vehicle, there shall be one “Claim Registration Card for KD”
prepared for each maintenance.
19 ) Manufacturer code: It is the Manufacturer Code of damaged parts. Normally,
each damage No. is marked on the part, such as 1AD, 3BA etc. If the part does
not have manufacturer code, skip this.
20 ) Station No.: Work station No. shall be recorded pursuant to the “Labor Time
Quota”. In case the work station is not recorded in the “Labor Time Quota”, it
can be typed 99999999 in this column while entering the name of work station
and the number of working hours. The Working Hours can be left blank. A same
problem may require several positions, and the subtotal amount is the sum of
labor cost.
21)Material No.: Fill in the Part No. of the replacement part, including main claimed
material and accessorial claimed material; among which the Part No. of the main
claimed material shall be recorded in the first line. More pieces of Claim
Registration Card for KD can be added if one piece is not enough. Tie the
relevant Claim Registration Card for KD to the main claimed material when
tying and attach the third copy of the Claim Registration Card for KD.
22 ) Service Station Seal: Each piece of Claim Registration Card for KD shall be
sealed with the seal of the franchised service station of Chery in the appointed
place, otherwise, the case will be considered as invalid.
23)Claim Handler: Fill in the name of the claim handler recognized by Chery.
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Total
Applic
Purcha Rep Vehicl Transm Drive Fault Manufac
No ation Manufac Claim Chassi Engine Parts Parts Labour Qua Unit
se air e ission Mileage Descriptio turer Amount Remark
. Form ture Date Type s No. No. Name No. Time ntity Price
Date Date Model No. (KM) n Code
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Feedback Date: KD general distributor seal:
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1.2 If the parts number and manufacturer code can not be found on the parts, The
distributor can also confirm by the barcode whether the malfunction parts are
originally installed by Chery or allowed to be installed.
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1.3 For the convenience of identification, the distributor should provide the clear
photos of malfunction parts in case of unidentifiable parts number and
manufacturer code after a period of usage (such as the clutch disc).
In principle, in the case of the parts marked with the part number, manufacturer code,
bar code but the distributor does not provide relevant photos, Chery reserve the right
to reject the claims.
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Declaration
Chery International reserves the right to interpret and alter the contents of this manual.
If this manual has been changed , Chery will inform KD general distributors.