"Won't Affect MY Warranty"

[CFAR]

I'll never buy a truck with a lift on it. If I want one, I'll put it on

Nor one with oversized tires!!

 

[DKarvwnaris]

I tend to look for ones with fiberglass toppers on them and no gooseneck in the bed (yet) At least with a bumper pull hitch, you can see the cracks when the stock Mopar mount is overloaded too much or always hooked up. I also shy away from trucks with snow plow mounts on them.

My first concerns are always:

1. no cigarette burns in the cab

2. stock size tires at least half worn down to make sure it isn't chewing tires.

3. stock height

4. Clean bed and no gooseneck

5. Plow hitch marks

6. no gauges and no signs of it being turned up/ I'll pay for the a pillar myself, much cheaper than a motor thats been fueled to death.



Then I look the vehicle over for maintenance signs.



So far, this has worked well for me in buying or searching for a new/newer rig.

 

[Blakers]

Originally posted by DKarvwnaris

talked to him last night after reading this post to see how things were going. He found a friend to put the truck back together enough so he could drive it and he tool it off to the local dealer for trade in.

Why didn't he just have a good welder repair what was broken, beef up what needed beefed up, and repair whatever else needed fixed? He would not have had to fight with the dealer and would have been able to keep the truck the way he liked it. If repaired properly, it would have lasted for years and would have cost him much less than trading it in or hiring a lier.

 

[SRadke]

I've got a warantee story for this thread. My best friend has the whole Banks package on his 01. At 68k he lost his lift pump and it was replaced under his extended full meal deal 100k warrantee. Now at 75k he finds out his VP-44 got toasted during the lift pump incident and they refuse to cover it because of the Banks package. Banks claim their products don't void the warrantee so htye're going to writer a letter to DC and supposeidly it will be covered but for now, he had to eat it. I AM MY OWN WARRANTEE STATION!!!!



-Scott

 

[DKarvwnaris]

Unless you can "smuck" the thing onto another idividual, you're stuck fixing it on your own. You'll never make out ahead with either a lawyer or a trade in "repair". I couldn't sell something messed up to another person and sleep at night, it just isn't me. Besides me having morals, I would be very restless hoping they didn't know where I lived.



As for the idiot I spoke of earlier, he had alot of other things going out on that truck. Besides, having the steering box broken out on all bolt mounts to the frame, is a really questionable thing to repair, even with a good welder, it would never be right afterwards. The track bar mount was even cracking out.

(Did I mention the guy jumps it in the fields and hunts antelope with the reunel front bumper?)

 

[_MACKIN]

You play you may pay is right ... . What drives me nuts is the finger pointing associated with aftermarket add-ons performance or not ... .

An example is a DieselPlace member had an injector stick open causing the lose of a piston for obvious reasons...

When the GM regional showed right away he pointed at the larger than stock tires ,I kid you not ... . This info came from a very reliable source ...

Here's anouther guy who had a problem with hyper-tech tuner and is winning his fight with GM ...

Some interesting reading .....

How it started

Hypertech Voided my warranty

The resolve



Mac

 

[JBlock]

Pay as you go lawyers

I sue and insurance compamy with a Pay as you go lawyer, Don't I fired him and negioated the settlement myself. I was about $7000 head this way but send $18000 to win the $25,000 worth of retaining wall. Best yet, in turns out my current insurance company was the builders too. Got aeveryone together in one room split the bill and we were all happy, my lawyer said it was done that way. the insurance lawyer said it crimal when he saw what i paid. Insurance Bill was under $1000 for the whole 18 month deal.



If the lawyer will not due contingency, he doe think he going to win.



Great tax write off that year, so all was lost.

 

[Joe G.]

SRadke,



There have been quite a few discussions about Banks and "their products don't void the warrantee" business. Some of the discussions got pretty heated. I think the point made was the Banks just referrs to the MM act to show that their products don't void the warrantee. So it is up to the truck owner to press any suit. Banks won't. See the link that I posted earlier to this thread for what happens when you do that. I would be surprised if your best friend gets anything out of DC.

 

[SRadke]

You're right Joe. I spoke with him today and he said he's eating the bill. He also said he's scraping the Banks chip for a diffrent one that doesn't tap the pump wire so it will be covered next time. Sounds like a pretty expensive lesson to me.



-Scott