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Originally Posted by SYT_Shadow
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Originally Posted by StocktonBomb
Maybe a dumb question, but why would manufacturers care if people tune/modify their cars? They can just deny covering any repairs under warranty if stuff breaks, so I don't see how they would lose any money. What am I missing?
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If people were honorable then indeed manufacturers shouldn't care. However, go over to the F8X forum and see people running 600whp on E85 in a car that is leased and then say it's a BMW defect when the crank finally spins.
So, the massive amount of dishonest people who try to get BMW to cover for their mistakes makes BMW crack down hard. |
It's not about dishonesty. It's about protecting their brand image for the 99.9% of people in the world that aren't on forums. In their eyes they've made the perfect product and they don't want anybody messing with that. Besides, you can't be dishonest these days, you could remove every mod, clear every log, all they have to do is check the max hp/tq/boost your car has run and if it's not within their parameters then you can say bye to your warranty. It takes minutes for them to interpret this data, at a dealership. This is why a good SA can save you tons of $$.