X230 keyboard - left shift not always registering

Hi. I'm new here, so please forgive me if there's any local etiquette I haven't noticed!
I bought my first Lenovo machiine recently, which was an X230 from the UK Outlet Store. I was a bit surprised that this arrived with a "US International" keyboard rather than a UK one, but with a little bit of remapping I've made it work for me, and I like the machine very much :-)
However, I've found that when typing fast the left shift doesn't always seem to register. I can't pin down exactly what causes it in terms of the part of the key that's pressed or anything, because it doesn't occur if I slow down to examine what's going on... but it's getting quite frustrating to miss capital letters off so many sentences!
Is this slightly hard-to-define problem something that Lenovo would easily resolve under warrenty? And could it be done without me having to send the machine back to them? (Because it's from the Outlet Store it has a return-to-base warrenty, but I understand that the keyboard is a user replacable unit?)
Thanks for any advice.
Simon.

you probably just need a new keyboard.
Regards,
Jin Li
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