Are you serious?

 

Oh how I wish you were right. I did get Mitsu corp involved. They sent out a Regional Service Manager, who sided with the dealer and told me to put it all back to stock, and if they still couldn't program it and "suspected" that the stereo had caused any harm I would be held liable for the costs of the repair. He didn't say "prove" he said "suspected". Whats funny, is I went home, read the instructions on programming the key myself, did it, and it worked... their dumb asses just didn't know how to release two buttons in sequence. Mechanical problems may be easier, but in regards to electrical, most techs are confused as **** and only know how to do what the computer says, and sometimes not even that much.

 

well then you need to go outside of the region as it appears there is an issue with mitsu and its structure where you reside.

There are american laws that prevent their ability to do such things. Being canadian i dont feel the need to find the particular articles, but im sure a quick google search will yield results.

At anyrate a stealership learns these bull**** moves when they are able to use them effectively. Its up to us as consumers to use the system given to us properly to prevent it. The simple fact they are trying to argue a directly installed stereo has anything to do with programming remotes for the doors looks is silly enough it should make anyone who knows anything about cars suspious. It saddens me that your region seems to lack intelligent people employed by mitsubishi.

 

Sadly, yes. And try as I may, they refused to touch it. When I told the tech to go get the wiring diagram and i would show him just how separate the systems were. the service manager told me to leave and that I was no longer welcome at the dealer. I go "so your denying my warranty claim?" The factory rep chimed in and said "No, you can make you claim, just not at this dealer. And the car has to be returned to stock before any other dealer will touch it as I will be noting in your Mitsubishi customer account."

I traded the car in to that same dealer about 3 weeks ago. I bet the service guys were pissed when they saw it roll back there to have the stock exhaust stuff put back on.

 

I know there are laws, but the simple fact is they damn well know most people don't have the amount of money needed to tie them up in court for it. If it were something more serious that I couldn't fix on my own, I would have, but for a keyfob that I could fix, it wasn't worth the money and hassle.

 

You are almost right, the theory is good. But one thing Bryan from GST (and almost every tuner) do when tuning a stock car is leaning the mixture the get as close as possible to a 14.7 AFR on a N/A car and a little above 11 AFR on our car (for turbo cars, the safe AFR depends on boost pressure, compression ratio, and other factors).

As for the MAF housing, you are right on everything except that the MAF housing we take from the EVO X is practically the same diameter as the Ralliart one. Thus it leads to about the same reading. The difference is so small that it doesn't leads to a significant drop in the AFR.

So, yes you are right but not in this specific case. Almost ALL other aftermarket intake come with a larger O2 housing but not this one.

To everyone else, please note that this custom intake is safe ONLY if the diameter of the O2 housing is the same as your stock housing. So before installing it, measure your stuff, I did it for the '09 ralliart but not for the newer versions.

 

Thank u!!!! I was just trying to give the OP a real life warranty situation and this dude jumps all over me for no reason. The topic wasnt even about whats is or isnt wrong with my car.

 

Really sorry to hear about this fiasco. Sadly I am in Northern VA and everyone I have talked to about mods and warranty has indicated that the regional Mitsubishi rep is very strict.

My car is less than a month old, and I have the Cobb AP installed and the DC Sports cat back exhaust on order. Many other mods are also planned, I guess I will see what if any hassle I am given by my dealer.

 

OP: ASK YOUR DEALERSHIP! If you need to find one that is cool with modifications, PM someone down your way. There are more Lancers down there than almost anywhere else. They will know. There are at least two sites that specifically deal with Mitsubishi's down in Miami.

And Westbound, I sympathize with your position. It is very off-putting to deal with the same 5 questions over and over. And, make no mistake, this question is definitely one of the 5.

1). Is my warranty going to be affected by X modification?

2). I paid X for my car. Did I get a good deal?

3). Which exhaust system should I get?

4). How do I get 300/300 with my RA?

5). My car exploded, what should I do?

 

To EyeDreamt, ZX, and RalliMark:

Westbound is irritated, because this topic has been beaten to death. This is not a question that we can answer, but yet you all continue to stir the pot. It isn't your fault.

 

He called you a name, and you got upset. So, you responded by calling him a name in your response? How old are you, 12?

 

thank you for understanding. Glad im not alone.

ill tone down though, just for you guys

 

I have done this. He is right and correctly irritated. The trims were off by more than 14%. It ran like crap, and the intake was dangerous until accounted for by a tune.

This is not up for debate. He is right about this. They can be dangerous.

 

Yup dealers saying the drive lug is bad which had nothing to do with the mods on the car and Mitsubishi is fixing it. Yeah it kinda hit a nerve when dude started bashing me without knowing anything about my situation or if I even had a tune done with my mods. Your right I should have been a bigger person and not said anything back.