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Originally Posted by DoomsdayJesus
If you don't know what you're talking about, don't say anything. Or preface it with a statement saying you're speculating. Or ask a question and research. There is never anything wrong with admitting you don't know. Giving bad advice is an awful, awful thing to do, though.
People on forums love to talk themselves into a corner without doing research. Be better than that. I deal with enough of the rumor mill and asinine anecdotes at work.
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You wanna compare credentials?
Been out of the business a little while, but I've been a manufacturer and distributor of aftermarket components and member of SEMA for over 10 years. On 6 seperate occassions I've had to provide sworn affidavits regarding my components (shifters/linkages/bushing/etc) and the effect of those on other components within the vehicle specifically in regards to lawsuits arising from denied warranty claims. I've put more money into my vehicles in the past decade than most people put into their homes, but never had a warranty issue that couldn't be resolved amicably. Am I a lawyer? Fuck no. Am I just a little more qualified and experiened than you? Just a tad.
You can post all the stuff from the FTC and Magnuson-Moss Act regarding warranty
on the affected part all you want. You won't find a thing in there about covering the removal of non-OEM components to get to them. I know. I've navigated that document upteen hundreds of times over a decade. You won't find it because it's not a protection provided under the act.
No manufacturer has ANY responsiblity to remove an aftermarket component to get to a failed one,
regardless of the status of your warranty. PERIOD. That is not to say that they won't, just that they don't
have to.
A good service guy will take a look, realize it's a clean install and just as easy to take your exhaust off as the OEM one, and do the work -- the hours he's getting paid by Subaru are all the same.
Or, he may take a look, see the BS jury-rigged job you've got going on under there, and say that, sorry, he's not taking it off. That's within his rights because the law doesn't say that he has to remove a non-OEM part to get to the good one. It only says that he has to replace the tank (if, indeed it was a warranty issue).
This is basic common sense. If the law extended so far as to protect the consumer even in regards to the removal and reinstallation of aftermarket components just to get to the warrantied ones, dealers could find themselves doing a MESS of work around other people's shitty installations. They cannot open themselves up to the liabilty of reinstalling your component in the same shitty manner it was installed when it came in, as they are now liable for it.