Mod friendly southern Ontario dealerships?
Jun 4, 2011, 08:30 AM
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Mod friendly southern Ontario dealerships?
Hey guys just wondering what experience you guys have had with dealerships in southern Ontario(Preferrably anyone from Burlington, even London or Cambridge area), and which are mod friendly? Like which won't void you're warranty or deny major service work if you have a catback or some intercooler piping etc. Normally I don't bother with warranties and just do most of the work myself, but with a $12k transmission not such a good idea.
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It doesn't matter how good the dealership is, for expensive work they have to get Mitsu to approve
http://blogs.insideline.com/roadtests/evo_warranty.jpg
http://blogs.insideline.com/roadtests/evo_warranty.jpg
Jun 4, 2011, 08:47 AM
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Agreed. I work for Mitsu in Sudbury ON, and we don't get to say who does and who doesn't get warranty work for anything major. Mitsu corporate makes those decisions after reviewing the claim.
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So basically according to that they could void my warranty if I have any mods. Even if I put coilovers on they would deny me a new transmission if it failed? Or just specific areas?
Jun 4, 2011, 09:05 AM
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We haven't had any warranty issues so far with modified Mitsus. We've actually only had a few warranty claims in total. I have heard of some cars being denied warranty repairs in southern Ontario (I actually talked to our service rep about exactly that earlier this week).
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However, the mods have to directly impact the failed part for it to deny you warranty. If you get a new exhaust and your headlights melt, I don't think they will deny you if the headlight was defective.
Jun 4, 2011, 09:19 AM
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Ok thanks sudz, good to have an inside man! The dealership I bought my RA at said I could do mods but to return it to stock everytime I brought it in for an oil change, maintenance, etc. Would be a pain the **** to put stock suspension back in for an oil change or something like that. Guess I'll leave the ecu and other power mods till the warranty is up as I'll be on my own then anyway. I can deal with taking out a catback or something cause I could see how they could make an argument for engine or transmission fail from that.
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If you're dealing with a good dealership, you can actually go in for maintenance without removing your mods. We have a few modded cars that come in for maintenance all the time and we don't document the mods unless it's a warranty thing. The mechanic MUST document all mods on a major warranty issue, so for something like that pull your mods off.
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Guess I'll have to call around or make some trips to see which ones are good with mods. Your dealership sounds good but it would be a far drive for me to Sudbury lol. Unless anybody can chime in with any?
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Fluiid changes
Hey guys,
Just took the car in at it's 50,000 k mileage to get an oil change done and the service guy tells me that I need a whack load of different fluids changes at my scheduled 48,000 k service. It involves the sst fluid, transfer case, and the acd system. It's 1,400 dollars??????? Does that sound right.
it has to be done EVERY 48,000 k or so. Apparently at the 96k mark the Fluids have to be changed again plus the spark plugs as well. The service guys was a bit smurky about it while explaining it to me.
Just took the car in at it's 50,000 k mileage to get an oil change done and the service guy tells me that I need a whack load of different fluids changes at my scheduled 48,000 k service. It involves the sst fluid, transfer case, and the acd system. It's 1,400 dollars??????? Does that sound right.
it has to be done EVERY 48,000 k or so. Apparently at the 96k mark the Fluids have to be changed again plus the spark plugs as well. The service guys was a bit smurky about it while explaining it to me.
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They're not wrong, it is time for a fluid change. If you want, you can do at least some of this yourself. There is a DIY on the forum showing how to do this for the SST, but be warned, the fluid + filter costs over $400. The transfer case and acd fluid is something I'd let my mechanic change, but only because I've never done that before.
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Hey guys,
Just took the car in at it's 50,000 k mileage to get an oil change done and the service guy tells me that I need a whack load of different fluids changes at my scheduled 48,000 k service. It involves the sst fluid, transfer case, and the acd system. It's 1,400 dollars??????? Does that sound right. it has to be done EVERY 48,000 k or so. Apparently at the 96k mark the Fluids have to be changed again plus the spark plugs as well. The service guys was a bit smurky about it while explaining it to me.
Just took the car in at it's 50,000 k mileage to get an oil change done and the service guy tells me that I need a whack load of different fluids changes at my scheduled 48,000 k service. It involves the sst fluid, transfer case, and the acd system. It's 1,400 dollars??????? Does that sound right.
it has to be done EVERY 48,000 k or so. Apparently at the 96k mark the Fluids have to be changed again plus the spark plugs as well. The service guys was a bit smurky about it while explaining it to me.