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| Message: | I agree, when you buy a brand new car with a warranty, you have to decide which is more important. Modifications that please your desire for more performance or "tricking out" the vehicle, or keeping the warranty in place. From following this board for almost two years now I have learned that there are a few buyers honestly believe that they should be able to put mods on at will and still keep the warranty intact. Most though seem to be able to accept that certain mods may jeopardize the warranty - though they may not agree with corporate claims that an alarm system could screw up the entire electrical system and therefore void a warranty. Guess when it comes down to it - if you modify it outside of a dealer installed and authorized accessory, you put that warranty at risk. This situation shouldn't come as a surprise in this age of constant litigations against companies. Any car company is going to throw up fences right and left to protect their "assets." After all the bottom line is the bottom line. We don't see very many new and tricked out Caddy's or Mercedes or a variety of other brands and models. A MINI is a somewhat unique car that, off the showroom floor, is a pretty reasonable performer. MINI has adopted some advertising schemes that seem to encourage mods but I suspect that if you took a Porsche or Corvette off the showroom floor and threw in some similar mods to what folks here discuss, you would get slammed with the same "Warranty Voided' letters. Not trying to mash toes here but come on, Do we really believe that BMW is alone in their quest to limit such mods and their potential impact on warranty claims? | ||||
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