the only thing it's defrauding is the next owner, when he goes for brakes, and gives the dealer the VIN number it'll come up Brembo pads $$$ and then he will have to bring them back, because well this car doesn't have Brembo, bank's not gonna give any thoughts about that.... I see alot of cars come in here, someone replaced the bumper and used a different one, but the customer didn't know, and so the front end was a nightmare to replace parts for, he ended up spending more to just put it back to the original configuration.

 

Maybe so but at the present moment I don't plan on tradin my car in even though I'm dealing with an oil consumption case and fighting with my warranty company. If I'm going through all this to get things fixed with that why would I trade my car in for something else. If I was really worried about defrauding a customer I'd trade in my car and say nothing about the oil consumption issue like I got handed. I understand your point of view but If I'm changing things on the car it's for my reasons and when I sell it I'll tell the buyer what's been changed / added that's not oem and where to get replacements if the need arrives.