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Hi HN! When I bought my first car, a 2019 Subaru Forester, I also bought an extended warranty. I wanted to stay informed about problems that might be covered, so I started checking NHTSA.gov—the website of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a U.S. agency—every month for new service bulletins. Those bulletins pointed me to problems I might not otherwise have recognized as repairable. For example, my trunk would not open as far in cold weather. I probably would not have asked the dealer about it, but I found a service bulletin describing the problem and was able to get it f…