Well, with those kinds of mods - plus the fact he was pushing a lot more boost than that turbo is probably rated for - I could understand the dealership not covering that under warranty. A new muffler or a CAI is one thing, but multiple mods and pushing things way beyond their limits is another.
Yup! Customer almost bought a new exhaust with the turbo but turned around and said to just cut the mufflers off. I got excited for 5 minutes thinking I could take his exhaust hahaha.
What model? And do you know if it was a custom tune?
it was an Si coupe and I think it might have had a custom tune, all I know is he had Ktuner stickers on the car and I assumed he had Ktuner lol.
You make it sound like this guy is an idiot for not trying to cheat your dealership into warranty service. Could his turbo have failed because it was defective? Maybe. But he was also running bolt-ons and a tune which is far more likely to be the cause if not heavily accelerate the turbo's failure. The guy gone done fucked up and so he paid up... nothing wrong with that. Mechanics are not stupid, if you modified your car and it failed through excess stress placed on turbo they will find out and your warranty will still be voided.
Sure, legally it's up to the dealer to "prove" that your modifications caused the failure, but who is going to enforce that? It's up to YOU to take them to court and waste more time and money that the repair would have probably cost if you just paid for it anyway. Not to mention again that your modification most likely DID break the car. You can hate dealers service centers for being scumbags, but that doesn't mean you should be one too.
I did not mean to make it sound that way, I was just using that customer as an example. I agree with you, there is nothing wrong with a customer owning up to messing up there car and paying for it. As for the milking the warranty, people are cheap and will find ways to get it. Personally I hate warranty work because the labor 90% of the time is bullshit. But like I said, people are cheap and will do what they can to get free work or warrantied work.
The Downtown Flushing area is becoming commercialized, new stores and malls popping up left and right,it almost feels like driving into the city going there now. New Police Academy used to train NYPD cadets opened up in College Point. Other than that, Queens hasn't changed much. Corona, Jackson Heights, Whitestone, Bayside are all exactly how they've been. The 7 train now has a new last stop and goes to "Hudson Yards" which is right outside of the Javit's Center and the new Hudson Yards skyscrapers. Saddest change is probably that they closed the drag strip over in Englishtown... but at least the track is still open.
Yeah I grew up in Jackson Heights, miss my bodegas lol. Yeah I've been hearing it ain't the same anymore. That's a shame.
Do all Dealers Work like that? Not recording or taking notes of your Car if it has an aftermarket part like PRL cobra CAI or Intercooler
If you're going fbo no point getting warranty. My Si is tuned and I work at Honda, the only plus side is I do all my repairs/mods myself with the help of a few techs if I need extra hands. I have a few friends who have FBO CTR and when they bring it in for service, the dealership really doesn't care unless the aftermarket part is the cause of the problem
Whats fbo?
"Full Bolt On" ... meaning, you've bolted on all the performance parts, to the engine, that you can.
Oh ok . Im just to stick with those 2 bolt ons keep my ECU Stock have never reflash . Does the dealer where you work is in California ? |
