I'd have to agree with GPTourer here, Mitsubishi warranty policies are similar to every other vehicle manufactuer in the world. Dodge markets Mopar Performance Parts for the SRT-4, but guess what, even a Stage One kit will void your warranty, Did you know that? Last year at SEMA, Hyundai told me that they were going to offer turbo kits to be sold at the dealer level for the Tiburon. When I asked about how that would affect the warratny I was told it would void it. Check the SVT forums for the same type of response about modifications done to their cars. And yes even Subaru, the company that gives you one year of SCCA membership for free, will void your warranty for participating in an SCCA event. So tell me how any of that is different than Mitsubishi?

MMNA understands the Evo and its place in the market, just fine. Why do you think they've brought over RS and MR? Because they understand the market and knew they would sell here. Just because their warrenty policy doesn't cater to your need to modify the car does not justify saying they don't understand the car or the market. And let's not forget that MMNA is not exactly rolling in the dough and does all of this on extremely tight budgets. I'm still thankful that they are bringing the Evo here at all.

 

"Mitsubishi's warranty on the Evo is better then any in the world. "

u have either never tried to take in your evo for service or u are smoking the rock.

BUDLoNG

 

I agree MY 2002 ZO6 dynoed 361 at the wheels totally stock

Derek

 

(Yes you are) evolife04 said that stock ZO6's Dynoed over 400 Hp at the wheels this is not a true statement. I owned one of these cars. I have been to many Corvette meetings with many ZO6 owners When I say many there were like 15- 20 ZO6 owners at one of our meets here in Florida. Most of them had work done to them. I talked with many of the owners about their stock HP #'s None of them were above the high 360s at the wheels. I would conclude that based on those ZO6's owners and my personal experience that what evolife was saying is not true they did not dyno at more than 400 HP at the wheels stock. And I was not talking about the 15% driveline lose. Your calculation is correct that you would be somewhere in the 402.4 to 414 at the motor/Flywheel. He was stating something else.

Derek

 

You must be joking...

 

It's all about money. The free ride is over, you have to keep a low profile with this car if you want to keep your warranty and have that kind of fun. Mitsubishi is in financial trouble, I hope they survive for the next model EVO.

 

They don't prohibit competition or modifications. The warranty does exclude damage due to abuse such as that which can occur from competition. And the warranty excludes damage caused by non-OEM replacement parts.

In order for Mitsubishi to deny a warranty claim, they have to show that the damage was due to actual abuse (mere competition isn't excluded), caused by non-OEM parts (the mere presence of non-OEM parts doesn't void the warranty), or that some other non-warranted condition was the cause.

It's right there in the warranty book, folks.

 

Thanks for the explanation Derek.

 

i see most with warranty denials have given up on this thread. warranty policy is similar to others. issue is the extremes that they go to to deny warranty claims

no mods on my car

no racing

but no warranty when my turbo failed

i bet if i worked for motor trend like evo neil i'd be taken care of

 

Luckily, my personal experience (not with my own Evo), with the long-term Motor Trend Evo, was fine. I had a concern about a misfire and a squeak, but had no problems with warranty. That being said the dealership I had a nice relationship with after servicing the MT Evo there for a year is now closed. So if and when it comes time to have warranty work performed on my Evo I am in the same boat as you.

Keep in mind that I have a stock Evo that I don't race or open track, so I am less likely to have an issue when I bring it in for service based on that rather than where I work. Time will tell.

 

That has to be most B.S. I've heard in a long time. No offense but the reasons mitsubishi is in trouble is because they do the exact opposite of what you just said.

 

^ It's true, anyone else think the 9 looks like a mass-producable vehicle, I'm thinkin Neon everytime I see a pic of it. I think they should've stuck with the design of the VIII if they didn't want it to be a "lifestyle" MD car...just my .02, but I prefer to drive an agressive looking sedan if I'm gonna be driving a sedan

 

okay, what it all comes down to here... is people expecting way more out of the car, and the company, then what is really warrented.

we talk about mass produced...like our cars should be handmade... okay there's a reason a porsche 911 cost like $90k +

we talk about warranty like if something breaks...no matter what it is, should be covered... we don't own a hundyai... and we don't drive it like one either...

people who buy the evo, drive it hard. I'd like to see one of you...ONE OF YOU...that hasn't taken this car to the redline at least once...ONE of you...that hasn't seen understeer at the car's limits...

bottom line, we run this car hard, like it was built to be, yet expect mitsu to fix our f***-ups...

now i DO feel sorry for the handfull of people out there, that have not modified their car, don't drive it hard all the time, and have a legitimate problem with a warrenty claim that is denied because of abuse... and even then, abuse is in the eye of the beholder. i'll leave it at that.

to summarize the above. I see the evo as an amazing value. one magazine said it best as "a 911 C4S at half the price" and that holds. part of the evolution moniker can be brought into the manufacturing process as well, mitsu has been able to produce a highly capable car, and do it cheap enough sell it to "the masses" folks, we are the masses. ferrari 360M owners, are not the masses. yes this car is in limited #s, but look at the big picture. we shouldn't even have this car right now. it should be over in japan owned by a select few, and coveted by the rest. you think skyline owners complain about warrenty? do porsche owners?

this car is a f***ing racecar. treat it like one, take car of it, and when s*** breaks, fix it like one. you want a warrenty, buy a hundyai. you wanna break s*** and complain about it while playing the innocent victim, do it somewhere else.

the reason all these people who have warrenty claims denied, are giving up, is because deep down, they know that whatever they broke, is...in the most part...their fault, and they just wanted to get something for nothing.

again, this isn't meant for those who have legitimate claims, for legitimate reasons.... the reason your claims are denied, is because of all the other a**holes that either don't know how to drive the car, or don't know how to take care of it....and want something for nothing

all of you with a compliant...look w/in your soul right now, think about what broke, and think about why.

I'm done.

 

^^^^

 

The warranty ought to cover things that break during normal use.

Hitting redline isn't abuse. If it damages the car, then Mitsubishi set the limit too high--that's exactly what the redline means: "beyond this point is unsafe for the engine".

Nonsense. We run the car hard because that's what it's made for. Using it like it's intended isn't f'ing up.

So you "feel sorry" for people whose valid warranty claims are unfairly denied? How generous of you. I think that's wrong, if not illegal. Mitsubishi should have to show evidence of abuse before denying a claim. And by evidence I don't mean simply asserting that abuse was the cause, I mean proof.

Of course they do. Are you really that stupid?

No, it's not a race car. It's a street car. It has the same warranty Mitsubishi has on all their consumer vehicles. If they don't want to honor the warranty, they should include one. Until that time, we're going to have to hold them to their end of the bargain. People like you--do you actually own an Evo?--don't help matters when you dismiss Mitsu's responsibilities.

You are a real tool.