with regard to rate and time. " 815 ILCS § 710/6. The specific process The specific process by which dealers may apply for and establish warranty rate increases are delineated in each state statute by, as an example, permitting the submission of one hundred (100) sequential non-warranty customer-paid service repair orders containing warranty-like repairs or the number of sequential repair orders written within a ninety (90) day period, whichever is less, covering repairs made no more than one hundred eighty (180) days before the submission. See, e.g. Minn. Stat. § 80E.041 Subd. 2, NY CLS Veh & Tr § 465(1). It is vital to by which dealers may apply for and establish warranty rate increases are delineated in each state statute understand the specific process dealers are required to follow when submitting for warranty rate increases as manufacturers have been using the dealer submitted repair orders for their misguided and improper attempts to decrease rates that were previously approved under separate submissions. We have uncovered that manufacturers, in many states, have been attempting to decrease previously approved parts markup rate increases by wrongfully using updated data submitted for labor rate increases by the same dealership in a ruse that is akin to an improper audit. For example, JULY AUGUST 2023 || FIXED OPS MAGAZINE 21