Never had an issue in the Chevrolet community. Granted I did not do a cam swap on my Camaro until my powertrain warranty expired. However prior to the warranty expiring I took my Camaro to the dealer for service when the car had bolt ons that didn't "require" a tune. The Chevrolet service department didn't bat an eye. Actually they thought it was cool. A tune is NOT useless for just bolt ons. A tune with just bolt ons would only make those bolt ons even more efficient. I will do everything possible to my truck short of tuning it with a programmer or a custom dyno tune until the warranty is up. Legally, they CAN NOT deny warranty repairs for bolt ons prior to tuning aka re-programming the cycle of operation of your engine. If they tried, they would lose because they MUST prove that the bolt on you are doing is actually damaging your engine. When in fact the bolt on you are doing is more than likely improving the performance of your engine.
A lot of people seem to be freaked out by warranty and bolt ons. I have never had an issue with bolt ons and warranty. Magneson Moss protects you.
So in other words, in all of your bolt-on mods, you never once had a problem that required warranty work,
to find out whether or not the service department deemed your bolt-on aftermarket part as the problem thus rendering your warranty useless? This is what I mean. I fully understand that bolting on an exhaust or a CAI to name a couple isn’t going to outright void your warranty. I fully understand that the Magnuson Act protects us from that but what I’m simply saying
is it doesn’t cover us if the service shop says that said mod is what created the problem; unless yes, they
prove that said part is in fact the cause but how do you be 100% sure that you can protect yourself from that warranty denial even with legal help when you know damn well that there is no way possible that a bolt-on cat-back exhaust kit caused whatever problem that you’re dealing with? When in fact that they’re just most likely trying to use your bolt-on accessory as an excuse to make you pay for it?
Maybe for some things, different brands of tuners, is good for just simple bolt on stuff but the reason I said what I said was because I’ve never fully thought the Diablo Sport Trinity T-1000 tuner I had on my old truck which was a 2008 Hemi Ram, was worth the money I spent on it. I mean don’t get me wrong, it beefed it up a little bit but we’re not talking much. As I said before, about all it was good for really was just to turn that MDS off. It was pretty much a waste. I couldn’t even leave it plugged in all the time kinda like it was designed to do because it interfered with my TPMS and my Key Fob communication with the truck.
We have very good reason to be freaked out. Vehicles are a lot more expensive to work in these days that a lot of people don’t wanna screw with the possibility of someday voiding a warranty claim. I sure as hell don’t because I paid nearly 4 grand for a lifetime warranty. lol.
Who knows. I may never have a problem but I really don’t want to find out that hard way that my aftermarket part caused a problem that warranty says, sorry pal.
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