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Note 6. Product Warranties | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017
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6. Product Warranties
Adient offers warranties to its customers depending upon the specific product and terms of the customer purchase agreement. A typical warranty program requires that Adient replace defective products within a specified time period from the date of sale. Adient records an estimate for future warranty-related costs based on actual historical return rates and other known factors. Based on analysis of return rates and other factors, Adient's warranty provisions are adjusted as necessary. Adient monitors its warranty activity and adjusts its reserve estimates when it is probable that future warranty costs will be different than those estimates. Adient's product warranty liability is recorded in the consolidated statements of financial position in other current liabilities. The changes in Adient's total product warranty liability are as follows:
|  | September 30,
(in millions) |  | 2017 |  | 2016
Balance at beginning of period |  | $ | 13 |  |  | $ | 12 |
Accruals for warranties issued during the period |  | 3 |  |  | 9 |
Changes in accruals related to pre-existing warranties (including changes in estimates) |  | 4 |  |  | (5 | )
Accruals from acquisitions |  | 9 |  |  | — |
Settlements made (in cash or in kind) during the period |  | (10 | ) |  | (4 | )
Currency translation |  | — |  |  | 1 |
Balance at end of period |  | $ | 19 |  |  | $ | 13 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for standard and extended product warranties and other product guarantee contracts, including a tabular reconciliation of the changes in the guarantor's aggregate product warranty liability for the reporting period. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 460 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 8 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68068213&loc=d3e12565-110249 + Details
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