Warning from the dash Console:
"Only the specialist personnel of a qualified specialist workshop should open the hood. Access by the customer is not permitted.”
"Only the specialist personnel of a qualified specialist workshop should open the hood. Access by the customer is not permitted.”
It's likely just a matter of persuasive messaging. They might not be able to void your warranty, but they might be able to lead you into thinking they can.
I can't help wondering if there is or should be some sort of law against corporations doing this. If they are trying to mislead you into not making use of a right which is legally yours, that feels a bit like fraud, or practising law without a licence.
I'm reluctant to suggest that the government should limit even corporate free speech so much that companies become afraid to put warnings on things, and corporate lawyers would probably just come up with even more convoluted ways of phrasing things to technically comply with the law (or maliciously comply with it to make people hate the law), but perhaps some well-funded consumer body should be able to name and shame companies that do this.
But I feel like "you are not permitted" is an entirely different thing. It is so vague that it doesn't really have a clear meaning, and it leaves the reader to fill in the blanks.
This kind of crap is just a reflection of the affects of modern culture that prizes risk aversion after you filter it though a massive corporate bureaucracy (like Mercedes)