Seized Engine
#17
02-28-2006 | 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Arnie
Why is it out of warranty if it is only a 2004 car . The warranty is 4 years I thought with unlimited miles
#22
02-28-2006 | 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by iLLM3
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.
#24
02-28-2006 | 01:33 PM
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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.
#26
02-28-2006 | 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Arnie
Why is it out of warranty if it is only a 2004 car . The warranty is 4 years I thought with unlimited miles
Ferrari is the only one that I know that has the unlimited miles warranty, but theirs is for 3 years I believe...
Last edited by Ruiner; 02-28-2006 at 03:33 PM.
#27
02-28-2006 | 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by PorschePhd
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.
#28
02-28-2006 | 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by shiggins
That's pretty shady.
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?
#29
02-28-2006 | 04:16 PM
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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.
#30
02-28-2006 | 04:42 PM
Originally Posted by DaveH
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?
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?
