[KeithO]

There was an article in the printed version (I didn't see it on the website) reporting on people having their warranties voided when they go in for service and the dealer finds out that the owner has been autocrossing. The case-in-point was an Evo owner that ran the car in the local SCCA region. When he took the car in for repairs (admittedly significant), they told him that they knew he was autocrossing it (they wouldn't tell him how they knew) and that he was going to have to pay out-of-pocket for the repairs - $7k.

They also discussed the situation with Subaru where you get a year's SCCA membership with the purchase of a WRX so that you can "experience the full potential of your car".

In the grand scheme of things, I suppose this is fair, but it is something to keep in mind.

[pknowles]

Either pay up, or stop showing your cars in four wheel drifts in all your ads, and explain the warranty situation prior to the sale and get it in writing that you did so.

This is my biggest beef with the car companies, they have to be responsible about advertising. If they are running an ad that shows the car doing X and then void the warranty for doing the same thing, to me that is down right dirty. When I see an ad like that it says to me "hay look what our car can do", so I go and buy the car do what they show the car doing and I get hung out to dry; again sounds dirty and one sided to me. I can understand companies not covering things like clutch's that have been put through big clutch dumps and melted, but if I came in with a bad cam sensor and never messed with the rev limiter I would be very mad if they didn't cover it. I don't think a cam sensor would go bad from autox, but if the car companies find you autoxing they void all drivetrain stuff including things like cam sensors. Some won't even cover power window switch's if you found autocrossing.

I just don't see how they can prove the breakage was from autoxing, even if you do autox; they just assume that it was and call it a day. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

I still think the car companies know what we do with these cars and are just looking to cut cost's. Why would I buy a Camaro if I'm going to drive it like a Camry? I would just save my money and buy the Camry.