Joseph Day Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 I have been wanting to do some mods on my fusion but have been afraid to for fear of voiding my warranty. I just happened to talk to a Steeda sales rep recently who told me that is not true. If I added a CAI and a tuner package to my car for instance, he is saying that this will do nothing to my warranty if something goes wrong with my car. Is this the case? Can anyone confirm this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 It goes like this (thanks to the Magnusson-Moss warranty act). The mfr can only deny a warranty claim if the failure was a result of the modification. If you add huge tires and wheels and the wheel bearing fails they're not going to cover it. If you add a supercharger and blow up the engine that's not going to be covered. But if you add a tune and a CAI and the Radio stops working - no problem. For a CAI the only real risk is the MAF not working correctly with the CAI design and of course they're not going to cover that - you'd just have to put the original intake back in. Modest tunes shouldn't be a problem as long as you use the proper octane fuel to go with it. Do a google search for denied warranty claims tuner if you want some real examples but I don't recall any first-hand accounts of that type of issue on Fords so it's not common but in certain cases is possible depending on what failed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Day Posted September 26, 2014 Author Share Posted September 26, 2014 Thanks for the info. Need to think about this before I go ahead with it.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 A reputable CAI and a tuner shouldn't be a problem unless you're doing some radical custom tune. People do those all the time with no problems. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldo Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 (edited) Over on the Flex forum there's a guy who's had his turbos fail and Ford is denying warranty coverage because he had a K&N drop-in filter. On those 3.5 EcoBoost engines Ford even wrote a specific TSB to inform dealers on how to check for evidence that a tune had been installed, even if it was removed. Back in the day I put a CAI on my SVT Focus, Eventually it threw a CEL and I took it to the dealer. They told me the code was related to the MAF and it was due to my CAI. I thanked them, took the car back, clean out the MAF and put the stock intake back on. They didn't charge me for the diagnosis, but I certainly wouldn't have expected them to cover the MAF under warranty. I never had any further problems, but since then I've stuck with stock intake systems. Edited September 26, 2014 by Waldo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Can't they modify the turbo boost with tunes now? If so then I can easily see why they would deny those claims. First I've heard of a K&N drop in causing a denial, but it's certainly possible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGee Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Get the Steeda Sales Rep to put it in writing on a Steeda letterhead, then Steeda & Ford can duke it out should you have problems, but I doubt he will. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Get the Steeda Sales Rep to put it in writing on a Steeda letterhead, then Steeda & Ford can duke it out should you have problems, but I doubt he will. Only if Steeda agrees to pay for it then recover it from Ford. Ford doesn't care what Steeda says. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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