Cancelling an extended warranty

widowmaker

widowmaker

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Anyone have experience with this? I discovered that my extended warranty (which was only for powertrain) is void. Is it a pain to cancel this kind of service contract?

 
car was sold to me by the dealership with a retuned ECU (non-stock tune). confirmed with the contract issuer last night that it does in fact void my powertrain warranty.

 
Bummer.

Modding late-model cars is a total minefield of owners wanting more oomph, dealers wanting to cover their asszez, and extended warranty providers happy to step out of their responsibilities for some pretty lame reasons.

 
Why did they sell you the warranty if itwouldnt help you at all. I'd be recouping the entire amount of the cost for the service

 
Nigel Prodrive said:
Bummer.

Modding late-model cars is a total minefield of owners wanting more oomph, dealers wanting to cover their asszez, and extended warranty providers happy to step out of their responsibilities for some pretty lame reasons.
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Yeah. Good news is all the mechanical stuff checks out fine on the vehicle. The dealership is refunding the warrenty no problems, turned out to be fairly painless.

I guess I can start my own mods now with less concern about voiding my non-existent warranty.
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widowmaker said:
Yeah. Good news is all the mechanical stuff checks out fine on the vehicle. The dealership is refunding the warrenty no problems, turned out to be fairly painless.

I guess I can start my own mods now with less concern about voiding my non-existent warranty.
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no guilt, then!

good that dlrship ret'd your warranty $$$.

 
You know you probably could have flashed it back to stock and nobody would have been the wiser, that is unless it was sold to you with aftermarket tuning parts. If it was not sold with parts, but was re-tuned, you got to wonder why and if it was in fact tuned for parts that are no longer on the vehicle, which could be bad for the car if it is no longer running the parts it was tuned for. The dealerships would usually have changed it back to stock and re-flashed it if it was being sold as stock, unless it was sold as is.

 
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Iboc_C64 said:
You know you probably could have flashed it back to stock and nobody would have been the wiser, that is unless it was sold to you with aftermarket tuning parts. If it was not sold with parts, but was re-tuned, you got to wonder why and if it was in fact tuned for parts that are no longer on the vehicle, which could be bad for the car if it is no longer running the parts it was tuned for. The dealerships would usually have changed it back to stock and re-flashed it if it was being sold as stock, unless it was sold as is.
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yeah, it was sold as stock. asked the salesperson multiple times, checked all the records I could at time of purchase. the last thing I thought to do was check the tune on the car.

(I've learned quite a bit through people on here since then about buying used so this kind of BS won't be happening in the future)

 
You wanna PM me with the name of that Dealer too? I could guess, but I probably have about a 1 in 3 chance of being right.
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