I'm haveing second thoughs on buying an EVO. After I red what they do. Isn't that called spying, and isn't that illegal? Somone should sue them!!! It's called privacy. If an agent took me to his office and showed me pics of me racing my car, I would 100% punch him in face, or beat the sh*t out of him. Then I would sue them for spying, they can't prove that you were driving.

That's just sad, I'll probobly go with STi then, oh well....

Sorry, I didn't mean to upseat anyone, I appologize in advance.

 

If you plan on modding it then you're gonna void it anyways. Get the EVO and screw the warranty :P

 

I am not sure you would have grounds to sue however if you beat the **** out of somebody they could sue the heck out of you. In this day and age if you assault somebody you could fully expect to be slaped with a lawsuit.

Also what does it matter WHO is driving your car.....the warranty is on the car not the driver.

 

Sorry for the double post !

 

Subura has people with looking too im sure...

 

It all depends on your dealer. My dealer's service crew is kinda on the hick side, but they think it's cool to see how much power I'll get out of the mods. There's no track in town, but if there were, my local service crew would probably show up to see what kind of a time I can post. On the other hand, some dealer ships have people hanging around tracks taking snap shots. It's not Mitsu, it's the dealers. Find a good dealer and be careful at the track and you should be fine. Some dealerships will even install and warantee all RMR products. Cover up the vin number and license plate at the track and hope they don't care about your mods. Subaru offers a free membership to SCCA or whatever, with purchase of the STI, and as soon as you go race, you can void your warantee.

 

Hmm i know they cover them selfs, and that's normal, but what they do to people who's clutches die after X amout of miles, maybe peeps do abuse them, but how do they know. They're supposed to change it without hesitation. (Non-mooded cars)

Man, I love EVO, but I hate Mitsubishi

 

Do us all a favor and buy a Toyota Echo. This kind of hot headed foolishness doesn't belong in an Evo or an STi.

I'm sure you'll make someone a good wife in jail though after you assault the guy.

 

Ya, as if could possibly void your warranty with pictures of you racing. Jeeze, could care less about you, your car, or what you are doing with it. If you present it for work with obvious abuse involved, they may deny coverage...otherwise they will fix it and it will be over.

Sometimes I wonder about the business heads of some people...like would actually pay someone to watch over a racing event, their camera, film, filing, etc. all so they can MAYBE get out of paying for a $400 (to them) clutch. Trust me, the only person that cares even a little about the warranty work on your car is you.

I'm sure had an analyst out there that knew precisely how many were going to fail, what part was going to fail, and what it was going to cost to warranty them. There is probably even a line in a spreadsheet that accounted for abuse/deny and abuse/approve levels. This was all figured out way before we even got a glimpse of an Evo on our shores.

Get a reality check people...

 

this issue has come up one two many times.

i agree that it sucks if you warranty is not honored by a dealer.

what i dont understand is why do the mistu reps and dealers want to screw us, cant they just fix the car and not metion to mistu corp about the upgrades you did.

i would be happy if on you first warranty claim (given its pretty major) that they would fix the car and give you fair warning that the next time it wont be coverd because of proof that they will show you that a certain upgrade caused the damage.

how i really feel is, i dont understand how thet can be complete *******s about the warranty subject, how would thety feel if they were in our shoes.

one quick example of a cool dealership:
my prev. car was a 98 gti vr6, full exhaust, chip, cone filter and suspension. blew a valve gasket at 40,000 miles and you know what vw fixed under warranty and and no metion of anything about the car. that how a dealership should be!

 

exactly, people should not forget there in buisness to make money, and they didnt just open shop last year they know what they are doing (i hope) with the warranty claims, and have allready figured out how to handle every single one.

 

BIG BUSINESS, REALLY BIG BUSINESS. People are so egocentric about their cars...their one car is nothing but a blip of sand on a beach and yet they think that has time to watch or even consider the concept of "1" car. Even a small dealership has a pool of 10 or 20 thousand cars they have to warranty.

If you want your car fixed under warranty, the only thing that matters is what you say and do in the 2 minutes that you talk to the service writer...I'd be willing to guess that you could get away with MURDER if you just talk to the service guy nicely..

 

Yeah I know, don't worry I'm not like that all the time. It's just so sad how they treat us, we are after all their customers, and it's not something that costs $50 it's 30k. Do they ever think of returning customers?

 

The dealership "worries" about warranty because if they exceed the average number of claims by more than a certain amount on any given repair they get audited by the company. They could even lose their franchise if they are found to be outside compliance.

The manufacturer "worries" about warranty because they have a very good and accurate idea of how many claims will be turned in legitimately. When little Mary, Johnny, Lucille, Stevie or whoever goes out and abuses the car and something breaks and they bring it in crying for warranty that's outside the bell curve they've established.

Yes, these are serious machines and very high performance however they are not designed to have the clutch sidestepped at 5-6k rpm or other things that exceed the design envelope. People aren't satisfied to take the car as designed and drive it as it was meant to be driven. They mod it so it significantly exceeds it's design and then they drive it abusively, far beyond the intended usage. Then they cry when it breaks.

Hold the flames. When I get one I'm going to add a few / several mods and drive it spiritedly but not abusively. Something may break when pushing 25% plus more power than stock. If it does, it may be my fault and my nickel. That's my risk and as soon as I alter the car I have to know that and accept it. It's called responsibility for those who don't know or don't want to know.

 

I just canceled my extended warrenty the other day. Ill stick with the crappy 3,36 but that wont cover **** on my car. They will try to void you for any type of mod.