Why is it out of warranty if it is only a 2004 car . The warranty is 4 years I thought with unlimited miles

 

I'm starting to think this is a BS post. The car should be under factory warranty until at least 2007, even if i was an early production 04.

 

I do not believe the motor siezed from one lean cylinder. Some holes in the piston ................. yes.

 

How is that shady?! You know damm well if one of your cars were modded and this happened, you would be doing the same thing.

 

My caris an 04 model year but was built in Nov 03 and the warranty has expired. Only get 2 years on UK cars.

 

Yeah that is correct 2 years in Europe

 

No, I wouldn't. And when it happened, I didn't.

 

Hmm, well then i admire that your a man that stands up to your faults !

 

Motors don't lock up from being lean. They simply create holes, break rings. To lock up a motor takes a spun bearing, liquid lock or worse. When the Boxster and 996s had issues they would lock from coolant dropping into the cylinders.

 

I smell something fishy.... warranty expired after 2 years... if it is a US car, this is BS- and as PorschePhd stated, running lean would not cause a motor to seize

 

4yr/50k miles in the US, but close enough to unlimited

Ferrari is the only one that I know that has the unlimited miles warranty, but theirs is for 3 years I believe...

 

Add an oil pump/ system to that list. If that failed then that should be factory, nothing to do with mods. Unless the motor was low on oil which nobody would cover.

 

I'd say it's pretty ****ty!

They build an engine and guarantee it. You change it. Why should they continue to guarantee something that isn't the way they made it? Surely that's an accepted part of the mods game isn't it?

If you put different elastic bands in a vacuum cleaner and they slipped and fried the motor, would you then screw the manufacturer over and demand they fix it?

 

Why would hitting the rev limiter cause a problem - that's why it is there? Just so, of course, the limiter was hit on an up-shift and not on a down-shift (mechanical over-rev), in which case the rev limiter is useless.

 

Umm i really think he was agreeing with everything you pointed out, and said its shady of someone to return it back to stock to get it covered under warranty