what mods can i go with before i have to worry about voiding the warranty?i would like to get as much as possible out of my 02' WS6 A4 with out running into warranty problems.thanks! <img src="graemlins/gr_hail.gif" border="0" alt="[hail]" />

 

To be exact, NONE.

When modding your car you will be voiding parts of your warranty. For example if you change the exhaust you will void the warranty on the exhaust. In order for them to void your warranty they must prove that the part you modded contributed to the malfunction or breakdown of a certain part. Such as if you add headers and then your power antenna stops working there is no way that you adding headers had anything to do with your antenna not working.

There are some dealers that will try to completely void your warranty for mods but its illegal for them to do so. I dont have the link but theres a article on SEMAs web site that talks all about it.
One thing to do is to find a mod friendly dealer. When I take my car in for something they always ask me what new mods Ive done (And no its not to find out in order to screw me over) to my car. After I got my headers installed I took my car in because the power antenna stopped going down all the way (Again). The minute I stepped out of my car they told me how great my car sounded and how that was how these cars should sound.

Well good luck modding your car. One word of advice that I'll give you is to find out as much information about a product before you buy it. If you are going to change your exhaust try to hear different exhaust in person before buying one. I learned that the hard (and expensive way).


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Well, airlids and MAFs are easily removed if you need to...

A great mod is a torque/stall converter. But it can be noticeable.

 

Anything where you can retain the stock part & swap it out later if necessary is good if you're worried about warranty. Gears probably won't be noticed, either- get an HPP3 and you can unload the programming if you need to take the car to the dealer.

I think tires & suspension stuff would be pretty safe, too.

As for Torque Converters, if you get a Stealth Yank 2800 they'll never know it isn't stock. It's actually made with the stock housing (possibly stock components, too...) I got the 2600 cuz there was no 2800 at the time.

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the only thing i am worried about is if i decide to go with headers and an exhaust and then something goes wrong internally in the motor.can the dealer blame it on those mods????

 

It all depends on your dealer!

I had the parts you see on my sig and did some warranty work and the dealer said nothing!

 

i'm pretty sure you can do exhaust, with maybe the exception of headers, but the dealer in houston told me that you can do exhaust without voiding your warranty.

 

I put LT headers on my car, Lid, all the little mods, dealer didn't care really, I haven't been back to the dealer since I put the cam in along with a lot of other little goodies.. <img src="gr_stretch.gif" border="0">