does an intake void teh warranty???

 

nope. Unless the intake is the reason why something happens with your car, then they can't void your warranty.

 

what if you are having engine problems and the dealership sees and knows youa hve an intake can they blame that for the problem?

 

It depends if the problem is directly related to changing the intake or not. If worse comes to worst, just change back to stock, then take it to the dealer.

 

you can do taht but wont they already know you ahve the intake and say you did that?

 

Some intakes can cause problems with idle and even stalling. If those are the problems that you are talking about then the dealer may be justified in blaming it on your intake. If you swap back to the stock intake and the problem goes away then yes it's the intakes fault.

Oiled aftermarket filters can also foul your MAF sensor. It's fairly rare, but possible especially if you clean the filter and over oil it. This can cause some really bizarre problems with the engine and would not be the dealers responsibility to fix.

Are you having actual problems or is this just hypothetical?

 

They might know, but they can't prove/say anything. Just take it to a diffrent service writer, or hell, just take it to a diffrent dealer My dad worked at the dealer as a shop foreman for 20yrs. The dealer wants to plesae their customers, well at least they should want to. You can work your way around warrenty issues. Warrenty should not be a reason to stop you from modding your car.

 

Sure they can blame the intake for engine problems, but that doesn't make it true. They blamed my CAI for my engine failure. Ultimately they replaced my engine under warranty because they could not prove that the CAI caused any problems.