If you can get this IN WRITING signed by the Mitsu representative then I will believe IT. Until then all of this is BS. A warranty is by NO means a BLANK check to abuse your car or modify it. It is silly to think Mitsubishi is somehow different when all manufacturers are the same.

 

qbbraveheart...I agree and disagree with you. Some reps might be BSing. But so far the dealership where my car is at has been pretty cool. They havent mentioned the mods one time, and we have called them several times. Remember they are even installing my ACT clutch and said it "wont" void the warranty. They didnt even hesitate to say that I could use an aftermarket clutch. I shouldnt jump the gun, but we'll see, like I said so far they have been cool. I'll keep you posted.

 

to have a warranty completely voided your car has to have been totaled and title marked, now if you mod it, say for example you have a base eclipse or lancer w/ cold air and you hydralock the motor, if you take it to the dealer with the intake on it yeah your a screwed pooch. but if you put the factory back who's to say what caused water to get in, now for evo's (mostly likely you dont have the factory clutch since mitsu designed it to be the weak link to save the trans, thanks to the $13k plus warranty repairs of the infamous vr4 3000gt tranys) if you put a triple plate clutch and do a 6-7k launch and trash the trans or t/f case, take it to the wrond dealer and your also a screwed pooch but take to the right one and you may be able to get it covered. if you install an intake on it there isnt a reason for the warranty to be voided if say your timing belt tensioner went south (like one of ours did) and you either trashed the engine or were lucky enough for it just to have gotten out of time, the dealer should still cover it. because the intake didnt directly cause the failure.

 

How can a drop in K&N filter void your warranty?

I can see someone OVER-oiling the filter and this causing an issue with the MAF.

So my question is does a drop in K&N help in ANY way? Like engine idle, smoother acceleration, etc.?

 

a drop in filter shouldnt void a warranty, since all it does is allow more air to flow while keeping oe type filter, to say putting a drop in filter help any, i cant say for sure, since it has always been cost effective to just install intake kit with sponge filter, and i havent voided a warranty yet.

 

Hey guys came up on this thread. Subaru replaced my transmission after if blew out during a track day. The car had a Catless Downpipe, Exhaust, and FMIC on it, and they game me no hastles. I am sorry to here about all your problems

 

omg. You all are scaring me. I'm getting an '05 GSR in like a month or two. I come on this forum and look to see what'll void warranties and I got two answers. I'll just ask then since this seems to be the right place for it.

1) Will CF body mods void ANYTHING?
2) Has anyone heard of WORKS Evolution? How good are they in keep THEIR warranties. They say they warranty all of their parts as factory warranty.

p.s. I'm tired of hearing "mod is to void warranty". So straight answers please?

 

ummm, i hate to tell you guys, but mitsu has no right to tell you how to drive your car. The reason why they are doing this is because almost no one will sign up for any event in a stock car sportin 120 HP, so they figure if you are then youve put some sort of aftermarket part on it. If you show mitsubishi that you have nothing on your car that would void the warrenty, then they can not do so, if they do they are in breech of the contract you have with them, and you can take their asses to court, TRUST ME ON THIS ONE GUYS, I JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH MY LAWYER AND THIS IS NO JOKE, IF ITS REALLY HAPPENING THEN FIGHT FOR YOUR CAR AND TAKE ACTION!

 

I love my EVO , i built it from the ground up . I do my own work on it , so i can see where mitsubishi is coming from , You beat the crap out of your car at a track , boil your brakes down , spin a rod from a missed shift , and people expect to get a new car out of it . I guess takeing that chance is all worth the fun. I can see if you drive from point A too B and your mtr decides too shut down . But look at it from there side. Its not like we are sponsiord from them and if any things breaks duing stuff we shouldnt be doing we get it all back .

This can be a big debate cause no one is right

 

MMNA will not cover damage that occurs while racing. It's your choice to race, it's your responsibility for what happens during that race. I saw a Toyota commercial yesterday that showed a tundra towing a boat and jumping other cars. Does that mean that I should be able to do that without any repercussions? Even if I tell the salesman that I'm going to? Or even if Tundras are used in Baja racing, should I be able to go out and do some desert racing without accepting any responsibility for the damage that occurs because I like to watch off road races? The hard part is going to be forcing any manufacturer to cover something under warranty that they have specifically said will void the warranty. It says that in every warranty statement. Accept resonsibilty for your choices. You chose to race the car and the car is now broken. MMNA told you what would happen and you did it anyway. Anybody want a definition of "racing"? Click this link. www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=racing

 

We're losing track of the big picture here....

We're not talking track days or rally here... it's auto-x. Speeds that are less than highway speeds, where there's very little shifting seen and every run is around 60 seconds or less, one car in the area at a time.

It's even less stressful on the car than a canyon run, or 'spririted' driving around desolate streets where there's no police... and definitly lower than highway blitzes.

From the original post, his warranty was voided because he auto-xed. You encounter more stress on the frame/shocks pulling out of some shopping centers and speed bumps than you do on many auto-x lots. And for the most part, you shift up to 2nd gear, and leave it there. There's no constant rowing of the gears.

If something breaks at an auto-x, IMHO, it should be covered unless it was something fantastically stupid. But simple mechanical falures would happen on the road too.

--kC

 

it says in your sig that you are an auto-x guy...... not sure if they are different all over the place, but the PCA auto-x's that I went to had a big straight before the first turn (which means launch at 6000rpm) then we were up well into 3rd gear on every course that that designed. I bet I switched from gears at least 6-8 times per run at full speed..... not quit the same as "driving out of a parking lot".

Racing is Racing.... don't play if you can't pay. Auto-x is timed, there is lots of abuse or people wouldn't always be replacing **** on their Auto-x cars. Why should Mitsu pay for that?

 

Because regardless, when I autocross, there's A LOT less damage going into the car and car parts than when I go on a spirited canyon run or something like that... the only thing that wears faster at Auto-x is my tires. Brakes get the crap kicked out of them on a canyon drive, and that's where people PRACTICE their driving for a track or Auto-x (usually) like heel-toeing and the like... My car sees more action in a day of no Auto-x than it does any TWO days of Auto-x... like 5 minutes total of hard driving at auto-x Yeah, reeaaaal stressful on the car... Taking it to a track, that's another story

 

I agree that racing is racing. However, not all 'racing' is the same. What if the competition was to see who could be slower? It'd still be technically racing because it's still a timed event, right? Should your warranty be voided if the challenge is to see who is the slowest around a course?

There's different levels of 'racing'. Auto-x is not one of the 'timed events' that has 'racing' anywhere in the official SCCA rules. The most wear is on your tires, because, again, for most events that AREN'T PCA, you're running slower than highway speeds.

If you only run with PCA, you'll never experience what I'm talking about. PCA auto-x is the exception not the norm. PCA is well known for running higher speed courses... because, well... you're playing on that marques playground! they're Porsches!

Move to almost any other auto-x, and you'll see speeds are MUCH lower than a PCA event.

--kC

 

Wow ... it's been a LONG time since I visited this thread.

Bottomline is that MMNA looked for any excuse they could find to not honor the warranty.

The regional service manager probably did a google search, found that the car was listed as registered for an event on 16-May ... and based on that said no to the warranty coverage. When I talked to him, he spewed bull sh*t about the warranty restriction having been put on the car on 16-May. Reality was probably more like ... he did the search and denied the warranty claim by putting the warranty restriction on the car on 3-Jun.

Is that consistent with the warranty? Nope, but I explained that on like page three or four of this thread.

Mitsu continues to be in dire straights financially. Seems clear that they're doing everything they can to avoid any costs including looking for any excuse possible to deny warranty claims.

Did the car fail because of the less than 10 min of driving in a parking lot on 16-Mar? Nope. No way.

For those that believe it is a simple matter to hold a huge company like Mitsu accountable through a lawyer. Pls put me in touch with your attorney ... cause that is sadly not the case.

Evo is an awesome car. Mitsu the company? ... well ... that's a different story.

Maybe I'll pop back in here in another 4 or 5 months for another visit.