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Is My Appliance Still Under Warranty? How to Check

Most people don't know their appliance's warranty status until something breaks — at which point they're scrambling to find a receipt they can't locate. Here's exactly how to check warranty status for every major appliance brand, and what to do when documentation is missing.

Step 1: Find your purchase date

Every appliance warranty runs from the date of original purchase, not the installation date or the date the problem appeared. Your purchase date is on your receipt, but if that's gone you have several reliable alternatives:

• Amazon order history — if purchased on Amazon, the date is permanently in your account under Orders. No receipt needed.
• Credit card or bank statement — search the retailer's name in your statement history. The transaction date is typically accepted as proof of purchase.
• Retailer accounts — Home Depot, Best Buy, Lowe's, and Costco all store purchase history in member accounts, searchable by product name or date range.
• Manufacturer registration — if you registered the product when you bought it, that record includes the purchase date.
• The serial number itself — for many brands, the serial number encodes the manufacture date. This isn't the same as the purchase date, but it establishes a "no earlier than" bound and is often accepted by manufacturer support teams.

Step 2: Look up your brand's warranty term

Once you have a purchase date, compare it against your model's warranty term. Standard terms by category:

For the full verified warranty term for your specific brand, see the individual brand pages linked below.

How to check warranty status online by brand

Several manufacturers offer direct serial-number warranty lookup:

• Apple — checkcoverage.apple.com. Enter serial number for instant coverage status and expiry date.
• Samsung — samsung.com/us/support/warranty. Enter model and serial for coverage verification.
• Trane — trane.com warranty lookup. Shows registered vs. base warranty status by serial number.
• Milwaukee Tool — service.milwaukeetool.com/support/warranty-checker. Verifies coverage by serial.
• GE Appliances — products.geappliances.com. Login to registered products or call 1-800-626-2005 with the serial number.
• LG — lg.com/us/support. Enter model number for product registration and warranty status.

For brands without an online tool, call the manufacturer's warranty support line with your serial number — they can typically verify status within minutes using the serial number's encoded manufacture date.

What if your warranty just expired?

A warranty that expired days or weeks ago isn't necessarily the end. Three options worth pursuing:

Ask anyway. Manufacturers sometimes make goodwill repairs outside the warranty window for well-documented defects that clearly started during coverage. This is especially true for high-value appliances where the defect is unambiguous — a compressor failure at 13 months is unlikely to be dismissed without at least a conversation.

Check your credit card's extended warranty benefit. Visa Signature, Amex, and Mastercard World cards automatically extend manufacturer warranties by 1 year at no cost to the cardholder. If you paid on a qualifying card, you may have additional coverage without knowing it. Check your card's benefit guide under your online account.

Home warranty or extended protection. For major appliances approaching end of warranty, a home warranty plan picks up where the manufacturer leaves off — covering repair and replacement costs on an ongoing basis. See our extended warranty vs. home warranty guide for how to choose.

Never lose track of warranty status again

The simplest solution: add your appliances to the free WarrantyRanger tracker when you buy them. Enter the purchase date and brand, and we email you before coverage expires — so you're never in the position of scrambling to reconstruct purchase history while your refrigerator isn't cooling.

Warranty terms by brand — quick links