screwed by srt

The video says set to private so I can't see it.

I've played the dealership game. I had a service writer who kept warrantying a rear in a modded Mustang GT. Looked great for the customer, didn't do **** for the dealership as Ford kept kicking the warranty, saying that the rear wasn't made to stand up to power adders constantly blowing the rear at the dragstrip. Of course, getting the customer to pay to rebuild the rear to spec as something that would hold together was out of the question. He'd already blown all his money on payments, insurance, and the better heads, and the better intake, and the headers, and etc.

Hyundai has a TSB on using Fram oil filters. Had a lot of folks who would take their car to Walmart, drive across the parking lot, develop a tick and bring it to us. Screw on a Hyundai (naturally being a Hyundai shop) filter and the noise went away. The only "approved" aftermarket filters were manufactured by Wix or Puralotor. If you came in with a engine about to let go or one that had let go and there was a Fram filter screwed to it, then you were on your own. That 100,000 warranty was now null and void.

Aftermarket warranty companies are even worse. Tore down a lot of engines and transmissions and sent out oil analysis left and right. Sorry, Mr. Customer, the indepedent lab says that the oil is 10,000 miles old. You're on your own.

This isn't new, every warranty has specifics you need to read and understand and every manufacture does it. Whether the service manager or writer tries to cover it under warranty is a different matter.

Oh, and by the way, warranties screw the mechanic working on the car. Warranty work usually books for half the time actual book time says, so if you're in a flat rate shop, and having to rebuild a rear over and over again you're screwing the mechanic on his paycheck.

If I remember rightly, I read somewhere this is one of the reasons Chrysler made their code encryptions on their PCM virtually uncrackable by the aftermarket. To many guys were adding things like superchargers to the 5.7, blowing the engines, putting it all back together to factory spec and then demanding Chrysler pay for the new engine.