Voiding my apple care warranty

If I install a hard drive myself would I be voiding the warranty? If I have a shop install it that is not Apple certified would I be voiding my warranty? I sure with that AppleCare had a chat interface or a email interface so I could send them these questions, as I cant always call them.
John

No. But any damage you cause while replacing the drive will not be covered by the warranty. This would apply whether you or someone else does the job.

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Replacing the hard drive does not void the warranty nor AppleCare, though if you cause any damage doing the replacement, that could void the warranty, and of course the warranty will not cover the third-party hard drive. Replacing the battery, as your subject line says, will void the warranty, the battery not being user-replaceable if you do indeed have the 2010 MBP.
Others here can probably comment re. drive type; brand won't matter unless there is a cable for the thermal sensor in the MBP as there is in some other systems in which case drive would have to be of the same brand for the cable connector to match up.
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http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals
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To contact product and tech support: Contacting Apple for support and service - this includes
international calling numbers..
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jermainer180 wrote:
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What about it?
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Neglected to purchase it on a 2nd gen iPod for my wife several years ago (the first we owned) and all was well until a few months after the original warranty expired. Wish I would have purchased it, would have been cheaper than the options.
Purchased it for my son's first iPod (don't recall which version). Used it twice on it. More than payed for itself.
From then on I purchased it for everything I buy from Apple. I am so glad I did.
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I have also purchased it for my current MBP (early 2008). I am still within the normal warranty period, but am about to put it to use to try to cure the dreaded "unresponsive keyboard/trackpad" problem.
All anyone has to do is look around and see what components like the screen, logic board, top case, etc. cost and you will see that it will almost always pay for itself on first use. If it is a mobile Apple product, I would never again consider not getting AppleCare.
As for the desktops, have no idea as the last tower I purchased was a Dual G4 MDD, that only had one repair to the Iomega Zip drive (Iomega's replacement of a known bad batch). Never purchased AppleCare for it and it still runs like a champ - most dependable Apple product I ever purchased. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case with Apple.

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deggie wrote:
For clarification Apple will do an out-of-warranty replacement for water damage regardless of the damage. If a truck runs over it and it is in many pieces in a bag they may not replace it.
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