I don't know anything about Darksun's situation with his intake so does anyone know if it was a MS CAI? If not, doesn't it state on the warranty that if you mod the car at all, it will be voided?
I am not defended this lawyer driven statement in the warranty but there are a lot of idiots out there. Idiots who do mod the hell out of the car and then act like they have babied the vehicle and look all doe eyed when the motor blows. These "pioneers" are the ones who cause overall problems like this and the dealerships clamp down.
It's the same for insurance fraud which causes rates to go up.
Thank goodness for that law which states that they have to prove that the mod caused the problem because that HELPS protect...but isn't a fail safe. How much time do you have to be screwing around at a dealership when your car is not running and you need to get to work?
Jay, what you mentioned about a list of bad dealerships is a good idea but I think we need a list of good dealerships as well to be fair. Could that even be a sticky or would it just be too subjective? Oh, and since we're all self centered ass-munches, people would just screw up the list anyways, right?
* a small story from when i was at a dealership recently. One thing is that they put the wrong type of oil in (I wanted FULL synth, not a blend) and the other is a guy who bought his son an rx-8. The car was fully modded with an exhaust, intake, all kinds of other fun little bits and the motor blew. The service guys were laughing about it because they checked the oil and it was total syrup. The car only had about 15k on it and the dumbass kid never changed the oil even once. The father was trying to be all loud and raise hell and from what I understand, was going to try to sue. What an ass. Oh, and the tires were totally bald too.
I am not defended this lawyer driven statement in the warranty but there are a lot of idiots out there. Idiots who do mod the hell out of the car and then act like they have babied the vehicle and look all doe eyed when the motor blows. These "pioneers" are the ones who cause overall problems like this and the dealerships clamp down.
It's the same for insurance fraud which causes rates to go up.
Thank goodness for that law which states that they have to prove that the mod caused the problem because that HELPS protect...but isn't a fail safe. How much time do you have to be screwing around at a dealership when your car is not running and you need to get to work?
Jay, what you mentioned about a list of bad dealerships is a good idea but I think we need a list of good dealerships as well to be fair. Could that even be a sticky or would it just be too subjective? Oh, and since we're all self centered ass-munches, people would just screw up the list anyways, right?

* a small story from when i was at a dealership recently. One thing is that they put the wrong type of oil in (I wanted FULL synth, not a blend) and the other is a guy who bought his son an rx-8. The car was fully modded with an exhaust, intake, all kinds of other fun little bits and the motor blew. The service guys were laughing about it because they checked the oil and it was total syrup. The car only had about 15k on it and the dumbass kid never changed the oil even once. The father was trying to be all loud and raise hell and from what I understand, was going to try to sue. What an ass. Oh, and the tires were totally bald too.