Upgrades to my car without voiding the warrnanty
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kooldawg6
mine works really well and can take a fair amount
Sell/trade it in for a GT!
Seriously, you should be able to do an intake/tune without much problem. Some dealers raise a stink over them, but some don't. Keep your stock airbox just in case your dealer doesn't like them so you can swap it out and load the stock tune back in before you take it to them. You can also see if the dealer will install lower gears (3.73 or 4.10) and still honor the warranty.
Seriously, you should be able to do an intake/tune without much problem. Some dealers raise a stink over them, but some don't. Keep your stock airbox just in case your dealer doesn't like them so you can swap it out and load the stock tune back in before you take it to them. You can also see if the dealer will install lower gears (3.73 or 4.10) and still honor the warranty.
Some of it will depend on the dealer, but if you did something like a limited slip rear end with a shorter rear gear, you would only lose the warranty on the rear end itself. I don't think I have ever seen an aluminum driveshaft for a V6, but that could gain you a little. Dealers legally can only void a warranty if the modified part caused the failure. There isn't much you can do that will have no effect on the warranty besides an axle back or something, but no real performance gain there. Probably not what you wanted to hear, maybe someone else will have some ideas for you.
Five Oh Brian
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Nothing you modify on your car will void your warranty in its entirity. However, you can be denied coverage for a specific claim if the failure in question is the direct result of something you modified (i.e. direct "cause and effect" relationship).
Being denied coverage for a specific claims does not render the rest of your warranty void. For example, add a supercharger and run too lean and you'll likely hurt the engine; no coverage for that failure under warranty. However, add a supercharger and later your power window stops working and your warranty will pay to fix your power window as the window did not fail because of the supercharger.
'08GTcaRED
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Correct me if I'm wrong(don't feel like reading the magnus-ferguson act) but I have always come to believe that if you take the parts that you buy and have them installed by a certified dealer, then they have to honor the pertinent warranty(meaning not that part, but anything that the part is connected to)? Maybe I should just read the act and see what's up...
I don't think that's how it works. If you brought an intake to a dealer and had them install it and then the engine blows up from running lean, the dealer is not going to honor your warranty. There are exceptions, Roush superchargers for example, possibly some Ford Racing parts. I think if the modification causes a factory part to fail, you are out of luck. That is my understanding of it.
Ha Ha. My dealer would find a way to argue that the supercharger caused the power window to break.
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