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Originally Posted by dave77
I'm probably gonna do a few things to my car soon, despite it still being under warranty. Such as clutch/flywheel, driveshaft, intake, headers, tune, wheels.
Part of me is totally fine with this. But another part of me thinks about what if my car turns out to be a lemon, say in another 5,000 miles. Then I'll have all these parts on the car, and might have a hard time proving that it's not my fault.
Then again, I feel that modern cars such as ours are pretty darn reliable and I really shouldn't worry and should get busy livin life.
Thoughts and similar situations?
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I slapped an AVO turbo kit on my car at about 12,000 miles. Shortly thereafter I started getting a bunch of CELs (P000B, P0014, P0017, etc). I couldn't take my car back to the dealer for the ECU firmware update due to the ECUTek tune, but the cam slow to respond CEL was too critical to overlook. Many dealers turned me away for obvious reasons, so I resorted to putting the car completely back to stock and had ALL applicable recall work performed. Turns out it didn't fix the cam issue, which the dealer finally figured out to replace the oil pressure valve on one bank. Now I'm driving the car bone stock for 3,000 miles before I put it all back on.
My advice to everyone who wants to mod but are afraid of this very thing that I had to deal with: get EVERYTHING done in terms of recall work before you start going crazy. Beyond that just keep your stock stuff in the event you need to do what I did.