Dealer recommended I Mod my truck!
06-10-2008, 05:53 PM
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Dealer recommended I Mod my truck!
I took the truck in for a oil change. They had sent me a coupon for 34.99 oil change, which I think is a good price.
While waiting , I was chatting with the service manager and naturally talked turned to the price of fuel.
When he came out and said, I should put on a intake, exhaust, and chip on it to increase my MPG. I was totally surprised he would say that, so I acted stupid. I asked him what I should do. He said, put on a AFE intake, Banks exhaust, and a Banks programmer. That it would not hurt anything and not void my warranty and I would see an increase in MPG. I was totally shocked he would say that, when some dealer's want to void warranty's just for putting on an after market filter.
My truck is still 100% stock since I wanted to keep my warranty for a while. Maybe I'll do an intake, exhaust, and a smarty now! Lol
Just had to post the shock I received at the dealer.
While waiting , I was chatting with the service manager and naturally talked turned to the price of fuel.
When he came out and said, I should put on a intake, exhaust, and chip on it to increase my MPG. I was totally surprised he would say that, so I acted stupid. I asked him what I should do. He said, put on a AFE intake, Banks exhaust, and a Banks programmer. That it would not hurt anything and not void my warranty and I would see an increase in MPG. I was totally shocked he would say that, when some dealer's want to void warranty's just for putting on an after market filter.
My truck is still 100% stock since I wanted to keep my warranty for a while. Maybe I'll do an intake, exhaust, and a smarty now! Lol
Just had to post the shock I received at the dealer.
06-10-2008, 06:15 PM
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some dealers are cool about it.
Don't count your chickens though cause I wouldn't doubt one bit, that if you were to go back to them with some sort of serious issue... they'd deny your warranty stating you used a programmer. The intake and exhaust won't cause catastrophic failure like a programmer can.
Covering it just means it will come out of their pocket, they're in business to make money... not spend it. IMO, proceed with caution :-)
Don't count your chickens though cause I wouldn't doubt one bit, that if you were to go back to them with some sort of serious issue... they'd deny your warranty stating you used a programmer. The intake and exhaust won't cause catastrophic failure like a programmer can.
Covering it just means it will come out of their pocket, they're in business to make money... not spend it. IMO, proceed with caution :-)
06-10-2008, 06:48 PM
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Yea I know, I still don't trust the dealer even after telling me all that..LOL If I did anything , I wouldn't get all crazy and expect him to fix it.
06-10-2008, 09:57 PM
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My preferred Dodge dealer actually sells Bully Dogg products and reallly pushes there sell. The GM of this dealership has a 08' 6.7 single cab with Bully Dog set on perfromance that he drives as a demo... These guys are really cool!!!
06-10-2008, 10:00 PM
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My dealer told me the same thing this morning. Said that I should put a phat shaft 62 on to wake it up. I just said ok i will think about it.
The dealer here sells programers, intakes, glacier kits ect..
The dealer here sells programers, intakes, glacier kits ect..
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06-11-2008, 07:33 AM
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It really depends on your dealer..... Some are great with mods others are not. One problem is if you ever have to take it to another dealer you may find your warranty void! As we always say if you bomb "I am my own warranty station".
06-11-2008, 12:21 PM
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Man I wish my dealer was half as friendly as these. I had a clicking in the front end of my truck when I turned. It turned out being the front u-joints which they ended up covering. This was before the level and tires, and all I had was intake and exhaust, and they said I may have voided my entire warranty because of my "PERFORMACE AFTERMARKET PARTS" and it was a heavily modified truck. I just laughed, and told him if he thinks that is a "heavily modified truck" he has never seen a modded truck.
They're idiots...
They're idiots...
06-11-2008, 12:24 PM
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Dealers don't warranty the truck, Dodge does. They can choose to not report everything to Dodge, at their own risk, but the final decision on warranty isn't the dealers to decide. The one thing where you might get burned is on injectors (well a melted down piston might be the same). Dodge does not just give em out, they often send out a rep to ok the job for the dealership. I went through this, they ok'd 2 cp3's trying to fix the problem and one injector. None of which fixed the problem Star was going to check the truck themselves before they ok'd all 6 injectors. My mod friendly dealer told me to come get the truck. They did all they could and I was thankfull.
Just keep in mind a mod friendly dealer only removes a tattle-tale from the equation. Star can still take matters into their own hands, they usually don't but they can.
Just keep in mind a mod friendly dealer only removes a tattle-tale from the equation. Star can still take matters into their own hands, they usually don't but they can.