Ok I am way too opinionated, I will say that first.
for all you folks out there that are screaming and crying about voiding a warranty let me tell you something that does not get mentioned to often, have you ever considered the possibility that you are not going to hurt your car? As long as you are not a retard the car is not going to have some mysterious high speed come-a-part.
Seriously ? Ok here is the deal, we have our 36,000 Mile 3yr riiiiiiiight?
now what did you do for coverage after that, I assume most of you bought the extended warranty, ( I hope you did not go with the FORD ESP cause than you are ****ed ). I went with the CNA ESP for up to 100,000 miles by 7yrs. which covers the car a year longer than the loan span. ( yeah I don't wanna talk about my payments ). Ok, so I am out of my factory warranty phase and am now covered by the extended plan because I have 40k on the car. guess what. . .it never has to go back to your dealer AGAIN.
I manage a transmission shop and guess what. . .I talked to the guy that does all the inspections for my ESP company. because he covers down for 37 other companies as an inspector, the moral of the story is you can take these cars to any mechanic that has a decent reputation and have any warranty work done outside of the dealer. to be honest you would be surprised at how many of these ESP companies prefer that due to the fact that the dealer ship is always 500 percent higher on all costs of everything compared to a regular old Joe and his auto shoppe.
So, that the means in the end is you can take your car to a mechanic you trust that isnt going to screw with you and you can have a blower on the car or headers or what the hell ever else you want on it. . .and one of two things can happen you will know if you need to take your "unauthorized" parts off or not worry about it all together. I get it that people are scared to bring their car back to the dealer, I would be too with all the nitrous and suspension and exhaust I have, but you don't have to with your MOST of your ESP providers.
I know there are going to be some extreme cases where people get screwed no matter what, but remember your rights are available, the failure must be appropriately linked to the after market part that is accused of causing the failure. and also read whats in your warranty booklet and what they consider an after market modification and how its all WORDED.
I dunno, I am just tired of seeing people not getting to have fun with these already bad ass cars because they have read or heard a horror story on this forum about a warranty claim.
If you are stupid enough to not tune a car and spray a 200hp shot on these stock motors you launch a piston in orbit. I don't feel sorry for you when your claim gets denied cause you brought the car back to the dealer with the nitrous bottle still in the trunk and kit still installed. be smart, there are plenty of people dodging warranty shenanigans with much more expensive cars than a regular old $35,000 mustang GT. Ask these GT500 guys that were buying them brand new and modding the piss out of em, they were careful with how did their warranty claims but they used their brains. You have to use your brain. . .
END RANT
thanks,
MIchael
for all you folks out there that are screaming and crying about voiding a warranty let me tell you something that does not get mentioned to often, have you ever considered the possibility that you are not going to hurt your car? As long as you are not a retard the car is not going to have some mysterious high speed come-a-part.
Seriously ? Ok here is the deal, we have our 36,000 Mile 3yr riiiiiiiight?
now what did you do for coverage after that, I assume most of you bought the extended warranty, ( I hope you did not go with the FORD ESP cause than you are ****ed ). I went with the CNA ESP for up to 100,000 miles by 7yrs. which covers the car a year longer than the loan span. ( yeah I don't wanna talk about my payments ). Ok, so I am out of my factory warranty phase and am now covered by the extended plan because I have 40k on the car. guess what. . .it never has to go back to your dealer AGAIN.
I manage a transmission shop and guess what. . .I talked to the guy that does all the inspections for my ESP company. because he covers down for 37 other companies as an inspector, the moral of the story is you can take these cars to any mechanic that has a decent reputation and have any warranty work done outside of the dealer. to be honest you would be surprised at how many of these ESP companies prefer that due to the fact that the dealer ship is always 500 percent higher on all costs of everything compared to a regular old Joe and his auto shoppe.
So, that the means in the end is you can take your car to a mechanic you trust that isnt going to screw with you and you can have a blower on the car or headers or what the hell ever else you want on it. . .and one of two things can happen you will know if you need to take your "unauthorized" parts off or not worry about it all together. I get it that people are scared to bring their car back to the dealer, I would be too with all the nitrous and suspension and exhaust I have, but you don't have to with your MOST of your ESP providers.
I know there are going to be some extreme cases where people get screwed no matter what, but remember your rights are available, the failure must be appropriately linked to the after market part that is accused of causing the failure. and also read whats in your warranty booklet and what they consider an after market modification and how its all WORDED.
I dunno, I am just tired of seeing people not getting to have fun with these already bad ass cars because they have read or heard a horror story on this forum about a warranty claim.
If you are stupid enough to not tune a car and spray a 200hp shot on these stock motors you launch a piston in orbit. I don't feel sorry for you when your claim gets denied cause you brought the car back to the dealer with the nitrous bottle still in the trunk and kit still installed. be smart, there are plenty of people dodging warranty shenanigans with much more expensive cars than a regular old $35,000 mustang GT. Ask these GT500 guys that were buying them brand new and modding the piss out of em, they were careful with how did their warranty claims but they used their brains. You have to use your brain. . .
END RANT
thanks,
MIchael
