my warranty that is.
I put around 46,000 miles on it in the first 12 months and in the last 6 months I've put a total of about 4,000 miles (we take the wife's car everywhere and I don't drive to L.A. every weekend)

I'm confident the car will hold up - it's just kind of scary

I still love it by the way

 

has the car given you any major mechanical problem

 

If it held up so well for the first 50K, no sense babying it now. Go out and have more fun!

 

It has never been babied nor has it had any major problems at all

 

Time for the mods!

 

Im not far away
im at 44k

 

You can always buy an extended warranty from a third party company. Its not as extensive as the factory one, but if anything mechanical does go wrong that's not wear and tear all you have to do is pay a small deductible. Then you send in your repair bill to the company and they'll reimburse you.

 

i just hit 20k...and runs goo... (so far (knocks on wood)..)

 

I'm still under 15k dammit

 

where the F did you drive??????

 

lol.....how long you guys think it'll be before i hit the 50k mark?

i've driven like 17k miles in 8 months

 

Wow, I've had mine since May 04, and still only have 12k. 1.5k was just from the sevenstock8 weekend.

 

I really never understood the point of this. Maybe someone can enlighten me.

You wait till you've got 50,000 miles of wear on all of your car's parts before installing heavy mods that end your warranty.

Now, on top of an expired warranty and 50,000 miles on the engine and parts, you're adding F/I, which can only lead to more wear and tear and increase the likelihood of mechanical problems during the next 50,000 miles. At least if you took the F/I route 25,000 miles earlier for example, you were working from a pretty fresh start.

So wtf is the point of even waiting to install these warranty voiding mods in the first place? From my perspective you're screwed either way. Why wait if F/I is what you really wanted all along? Just to make sure the vehicle's stock parts can last 50,000 miles?

 

i look at it as a free ride for any problems in that time period. if anything goes wrong, the car is going to get fixed and i do not have to pay for it

 

A little off-topic: What mods other than FI would void your warranty?

 

Well if a reasonable FI kit was available a year ago I would've grabbed it. As it stands now I'll probably have 75k on the car before the damn superchargers come out.

 

 

bump?

 

a lot of it comes down to the dealer/service dept you have to deal with, and also if you do mod, the warrenty only comes into play if you have a problem, and then it depends on the mods vs problem.

1) you 'should' be able to mod the car as long as you leave all emmissions systems in place, so if you want an intake, just make sure you only swap parts UP TO the MAS sensor, if you want an exhaust, make sure you only mod AFTER the catalytic converter.....ect. no 'internal' engine work, ect.

2) if you put on an intake and your radio or windows stop working, duh any dealer should fix the problem no questions, but if you put on the intake and you flood your motor, then the line is a little more blured, even if you put on an intake and your rear diff blows out, the line can still be blured (sure the dealer has to prove your mod caused the problem) but they might try to pull "oh your intake caused more power and the diff wasnt rated for anything over stock, blah blah blah" or "you put on an intake, so you must race the car, we dont cover abuse"

I have even seen dealers blame transmission problems on aftermarket wheels or brake pads, saying the heaver/lighter wheel or better pads caused more stress....thats true to a point but doesnt automaticaly mean thats the cause of the problem

My advice, get in good with your service manager, and only use the dealer for warrenty claims, get a good independent mechanic or do the other work yourself, and document it.

3) A good rule of thumb, if it makes a noticable ammount of change in the way the car drives, then it might cause problems with warrenty claims, if it makes a HUGE differnce in the way the car drives, its deffinetly going to cause problems with the warrenty, the bigger the change, the bigger the problems with getting warrenty work.

4) remeber that if you swap out things like your suspension, they arnt (or shoudlnt) void you whole warrenty...they should just close the warrenty section on the suspensions.

pm me with more questions or search

back on topic, ive got 10090 miles on the clock now, in about 7 months, with 3500 of that due to a road trip. still got quite a bit of coverage left.

any change in the mpg, oil use, feel of the car since new vs now with 50k

 

Thanks much.

 

NorCal to SoCal

 

so how's life in the post-warranty land

 

nothing wrong at all - car has run mostly on 87 octane fuel


will post if something comes up

 

Are you burning dino or synth?

 

cgrx,

congrats glad to know it's still kicking... btw.. has it been close to a year for the marriage? Double congrats on that too.