Paranoia.......

Preston951 said:

I recently contacted my Ford dealership about modifications to my car still under warranty.

He basically said that you can do whatever you want to your car. As long as you are smart, buy quality products, and take caution when installing the products, you should be fine.

In the event of a failure, if they look at your car and can trace the failure back to one of your aftermarket parts, then that piece will be void from your warranty. So technically if you put on aftermarket CAMs and your headers randomly broke 6 weeks later (I have no idea what I'm talking about ), they would have to prove that those CAMs caused the problem in order to void your warranty over the damaged parts. If they can't prove it, they have to stay true to the warranty.

Same goes with engine tunes. If you tune your car too powerful and you blow your engine, they'll be able to trace that and void your warranty.

"If in fact any modifications are the cause of the failure to a covered component, that component would not be covered under the manufactures warranty. With that being said, if you use quality parts and you are not modifying the vehicle to do any serious racing, you will most likely not have an issue. Modifying your vehicle doesn’t automatically void your entire warranty, usually only the component that was damaged as a result of the modification."

That's the email he sent me.

He also said this:
"One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.” - "Henry Ford"




And don't worry about it. As long as you are safe and aren't pushing your system over the limits, you should be fine.

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