Hard Drive and Warranty Voids

I am going to be trading my personal mac for another for personal reasons. One thing that I want in the trade with this other fellow I am dealing with, is assured AppleCare.
The offer is a 2011 13" Macbook Pro, but has had some changes. This person has personally placed in new RAM much like I did on my personal computer. But in addition to this, he had a client give him an older 2010 MBP with a SSD hard drive. This fellow took out his stock hard drive and replaced it with the older SSD.
Does the RAM and SSD replacement fall out of the AppleCare warranty? Or will AppleCare still be available to it, just not for those parts that have been replaced?

Only parts that originally came with the unit and only those that were installed by Apple at time of order/purchase are covered under any type of warranty. Normal or Extended Apple Care warranties.
So no the parts that were changed, by you or anyone else, are not covered under any warranty.
As far as I know only the original buyer of, the person that registered, the unit can send it in for warranty service. In other words the warranties, normal or extended, are not transferable. (but I may be wrong on the normal 1 year warranty).
Just why are you trading your MBP for this other persons MBP?
If you do make this trade then what you need from the other person is the original sales receipt and the Apple Care card that comes in the Apple Care package that has the registration number on it.
And you need to give the same to them.
Good Luck.

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However it might be worth reading this article in The Register about Apple not using standard temperature sensing methodology - see
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/14/imac_hard_drive_replacement_woes/http://
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