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Originally Posted by Chronology
Do you HONESTLY believe that? It sounds like that last post I saw on here about someone doing a warranty claim with a dealer and said the same shit.
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This is why I am not in customer service. The shit people believe, say and do is crazy!
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Do I believe what? That HPDE's aren't racing?
Abso-fucking-lutely! And if you think differently I pray to god you stay off the track because that's not what HPDE's are about and you'd be a danger. They're educational events, fun events, and safe
non-competitive events provided everyone is on the same page.
What matters is "has the car been abused?" We could argue what constitutes "abuse" with HPDE's and autocross events and clutch drops on backroads until the cows come home, but I'm bored with that discussion.
To be explicitly clear here, I'm only talking about this because it's a known warranty issue that could affect any 86 and several transmissions have been replaced under warranty. Yes there are things that can and will fail prematurely due to hard driving, things that are consumable and easily replaceable, transmission synchros are not one of those things in this day and age provided the car has not been abused.
I thank god that Toyota and Subaru tried their damnedest to design a car that lives up to a hefty amount of hard driving and I've only had to replace coil packs outside of regular planned maintenance. I learned my lesson, it's not worth it to buy fun cars new, you're paying for a warranty that most OE's will not honor if you don't have a cooperative dealership on your side.
I hope you one day get the chance to go out and drive your car at 10/10ths out at Willow Springs or Buttonwillow or an autocross, it's a sublime experience and this car was in fact designed to operate nearly flawlessly at the limit for a long time with only minor changes from the factory spec.
