Upgrades and Lenovo Accidental Damage Protection

I have a Thinkpad, which as it turns out has over 3 years Accidental Damage Protection left. It is fine and dandy, but the machine is already very much non-stock, and will receive further upgrades down the road. Should I keep the old parts removed from it, and in case something really bad happens pull out all the upgrades and put the stock parts in? Or can I just sell them, and send the machine upgraded, in case of emergency?

 

I personally wouldn't send a machine for repair with the aftermarket parts (and on that note, I'd also keep the storage drive(s), stock or aftermarket).

If your warranty is NBD and not depot, I wouldn't worry too much about it since you can watch the repair person as they work.

 

@Jarhead I have on-site warranty. I assume I will need to remove extra antennas and WWAN card that I installed myself, and replace aftermarket WLAN card & SSD with original parts if I ever want to use warranty service, right?

 

The only time I've had to use their NBD service was to repaste my W520 (I wasn't comfortable doing that myself back then). I never removed the mods that I've placed in the laptop (SSD and extra RAM) and the tech didn't even bat an eye.

 

I am about to max out RAM, is it safe for my warranty to sell the original RAM module? I still keep the original WLAN module stored just in case, but it costs almost nothing compared to utterly expensive RAM nowadays, while I currently have nowhere to stick the measly 8GB module - so the temptation to sell it is very high...

 

Memory is considered to be a CRU, customer replaceable unit, for most ThinkPads, but I'm sure there's a few where it is not, like the X1C.

 

@ZaZ thank you very much for the tip on CRUs! I found out that not only RAM & SSD, but also WWAN & WLAN are considered CRUs for TPY260.

 

The master service part matrix may be found here. Items with "1" in the CRU column are considered easy things that the customer is responsible for; items with "2" are things that are CRUs but considered more difficult and you may optionally request service; items with "N" are considered not customer serviceable.

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd100192