Is the Legal Warranty Period for Cars in Turkey Insufficient Anymore?

The average warranty of the top 20 brands with the highest sales in the January-April 2026 period is: “3.3 years”, the legal warranty is still “2 years!”

📌 Legal warranty obligation for automobiles in Turkey within the scope of the Warranty Certificate Regulation: 2 years / 60,000 km (whichever comes first)

✅ When the Market Shares and Warranty Conditions table of Brands by Origin are examined, the striking headings are:

📌 Average of the top 20 brands: 3.3 years /110,000 km (Source: Official sites of the brands)

📌 Moreover, 5 brands do not even apply mileage limits anymore: (Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, Volvo)

 📌 The market share of European origin brands is approximately 60%! The average warranty period of these marks is approximately 3 years / 100.000 km

 📌 There is no proportion between market share and warranty periods. In other words, the warranty period is not included as a multiplier in the purchasing formula. It remains a support for the customer only in second-hand sales.

📌 Brands originating from the Far East see the “way to highlight product quality” as offering a long warranty period.

📌 Many brands offer their own warranties on top of the legal obligation (2 years/60 thousand km), as a voluntary warranty,

On top of that, they increase the warranty period if certain conditions are fulfilled (e.g. authorized service maintenance obligation).

📌 Some brands offer this service by selling additional warranty policies with different names. What draws attention here is that the customer’s addressee is no longer the manufacturer, but the insurance company, which is the policyholder. 

✅In other words, the sector has actually exceeded the current legal obligation.

Today, many brands offer long warranty systems with

• additional warranty packages,

• insurance models,

• and authorized service maintenance conditions.

While this structure provides confidence to the consumer, it may create an area that should be evaluated separately in terms of the competitiveness of independent services.

⚠️Analysis of the Agency

By extending the warranty period with different methods, companies actually cause confusion in customer perception.

Let’s hear the field conditions so that the issue could be beneficial ort he customer.

Perhaps the question that now needs to be discussed is: Should the legal warranty obligation still be 2 years / 60,000 km?

Wouldn’t it be good to update in parallel with increasing material qualities and technological developments?

📌 In line with where the industry has already arrived: Should a new basic warranty such as “3 years / 120,000 km” be applied?