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Originally Posted by strat61caster

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 you can fix it but chose not to.

But see you are just one person and you had a bad experience so you presume that everybody else has as well. No doubt there were many coil packs repaired under warranty and they did indeed have a permanent fix. Examples such as yours are where at least a partial coverage should apply. The problem is that they don't know if you blew them under mild use or were kicking the crap outta the car and qualified as abuse. Your particular dealer went the abuse road.