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Originally Posted by Tcoat
But it is there in black and white. People just chose to ignore the fact that the "misuse" items listed are just EXAMPLES not an all inclusive list.
If a stock component is pushed beyond it's street use engineered specs is it really a "manufacture's defect"?
I overheat and blow the coil packs is that the company's fault?
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So it boils down to you're totally happy to let the paper pushing service adviser determine what misuse is and not the people who engineered the car.
The coilpack is a convenient example because I've broken at least two of them. It doesn't matter to me whether I did it on a closed circuit or not, I can go find a quiet public road and without breaking any laws put a totally stock car through a WORSE environment than I did on the cool January day my first one failed. In my instance the only piece of the puzzle on that track day that could not be replicated on a stock car on public roads in a legal fashion was the speeds of 65-100+ mph. And I think we'll both agree at those speeds you've got a much higher cooling effect happening
Hell I don't mind that it failed, I mind that they didn't own up and fix it under warranty, sure throw me under the bus once warranty is over, never truly fix the problem, I can live with that. But my car doesn't run, I haven't done anything in my view that constitutes mis-use (no moneyshifts, maintenance performed on time, never overheated, etc.) and now my car doesn't run right and for an hour of labor Toyota can fix it but chose not to.