Go Back   Dallas Fort Worth 5.0 Mustang Club > 5.0 Mustang Forum > General Discussions

General Discussions Discuss anything in general about your 5.0 Mustang that doesn't belong within the other categories here.


Sponsored Ads
Welcome to DFW50s.com

Register to remove these ads.




Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 10-20-2013, 12:25 PM   #1
Dominic Toretto
Senior Member
 
Dominic Toretto's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Irving / Oklahoma City
Age: 41
Posts: 1,896
Default Driveshaft vs. Warranty

I am wanting to add a single-piece driveshaft to my car. However, I am concerned that it could void the powertrain warranty. Anyone know if this could?

-Alex
__________________
2012 GT Premium Hardtop with XX Transmission
Mods page: http://dfw50s.com/showthread.php?t=3376

Ford Racing . Pypes . BMR . CDC . American Muscle . DDM Tuning . BFG . J&M . Amsoil . MMD. JLT
Dominic Toretto is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-20-2013, 12:30 PM   #2
JDMLOL
Senior Member
 
JDMLOL's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2013
Age: 33
Posts: 1,047
Default

Originally Posted by Dominic Toretto View Post
I am wanting to add a single-piece driveshaft to my car. However, I am concerned that it could void the powertrain warranty. Anyone know if this could?

-Alex
Ive had hell with my mods when I took my car into certain dealers. Depends on where you take it. Park cities seems to be friendlier than others on light mods.
__________________

The Queen:
2013 Race Red Mustang GT 6MT: 20" AMR's, GT500 AB, JBA LT's and ORX, SCT SF3/X3, MGW Short Throw, Some Carbon Wrap, Spoiler Delete, Eibach Sportlines, Koni STR.T's, BMR LCA's, BMR Relo Brackets, BMR UCA, Freedom Racing PHB, Maximum Motorsports CC Plates, BMR Safety loop, DSS Aluminum DS
JDMLOL is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-20-2013, 12:34 PM   #3
Dominic Toretto
Senior Member
 
Dominic Toretto's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Irving / Oklahoma City
Age: 41
Posts: 1,896
Default

Originally Posted by JDMLOL View Post
Ive had hell with my mods when I took my car into certain dealers. Depends on where you take it. Park cities seems to be friendlier than others on light mods.
I figured. I have 40k miles on my car so I don't care about mods that are not dealing with the trans, engine or diff. I do suppose that if I did have issues I could just have the factory DS put back on lol.

-Alex
__________________
2012 GT Premium Hardtop with XX Transmission
Mods page: http://dfw50s.com/showthread.php?t=3376

Ford Racing . Pypes . BMR . CDC . American Muscle . DDM Tuning . BFG . J&M . Amsoil . MMD. JLT
Dominic Toretto is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-20-2013, 01:15 PM   #4
donutninja
Senior Member
 
donutninja's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Coppell
Posts: 193
Default

I asked my service guy at Five Star Ford and he pretty much told no superchargers or turbos, that as long as it doesn't mess with with the ECU, or can be directly traced to the cause of a warrantied issue, then it's ok.

Now, weather you can prove the diff was at fault or the driveshaft (for example) vs what the dealership is going to say... that's another story.

I've had a lot of friends that just keep all their factory parts in the garage for dealership reasons. lol
donutninja is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-20-2013, 04:36 PM   #5
downtime!
Senior Member
 
downtime!'s Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Keller
Age: 61
Posts: 1,006
Default

Questions like these always make me smile. And they always remind me why I never buy extended warranties.

I voided the warranty on the '12 about 40 minutes after I bought the car.

Have fun, do what you want, fix what you break. Simple as that.

Dealer mechanics will NEVER touch any car that I own.
__________________
downtime! is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-20-2013, 04:50 PM   #6
Dominic Toretto
Senior Member
 
Dominic Toretto's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Irving / Oklahoma City
Age: 41
Posts: 1,896
Default

Originally Posted by downtime! View Post
Questions like these always make me smile. And they always remind me why I never buy extended warranties.

I voided the warranty on the '12 about 40 minutes after I bought the car.

Have fun, do what you want, fix what you break. Simple as that.

Dealer mechanics will NEVER touch any car that I own.
You're a rich mofo. I'm not

-Alex
__________________
2012 GT Premium Hardtop with XX Transmission
Mods page: http://dfw50s.com/showthread.php?t=3376

Ford Racing . Pypes . BMR . CDC . American Muscle . DDM Tuning . BFG . J&M . Amsoil . MMD. JLT
Dominic Toretto is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-20-2013, 06:21 PM   #7
downtime!
Senior Member
 
downtime!'s Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Keller
Age: 61
Posts: 1,006
Default

Originally Posted by Dominic Toretto View Post
You're a rich mofo. I'm not

-Alex
Rich is a relative term, and I'm far from it. I was doing the same thing when I made $8.00 an hour working in a warehouse (admittedly, a long time ago).

It's how you choose to play the game. I've never been scared of breaking one, whatever it is, it's nothing that can be fixed.

Cars have always been my priority, to the near exclusion of everything else (food, rent, new clothes, etc). Too many people trying to serve too many masters these days. It's hard, and expensive, to have a nice place, nice car, wear nice clothes, do trendy shit, impress a girl, etc.

Unless you're rich. Then, not so much.

Outside of that, consider it all justification for higher education.
__________________
downtime! is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-20-2013, 06:35 PM   #8
Dominic Toretto
Senior Member
 
Dominic Toretto's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Irving / Oklahoma City
Age: 41
Posts: 1,896
Default

Just messing with you man .

-Alex
__________________
2012 GT Premium Hardtop with XX Transmission
Mods page: http://dfw50s.com/showthread.php?t=3376

Ford Racing . Pypes . BMR . CDC . American Muscle . DDM Tuning . BFG . J&M . Amsoil . MMD. JLT
Dominic Toretto is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-20-2013, 11:33 PM   #9
downtime!
Senior Member
 
downtime!'s Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Keller
Age: 61
Posts: 1,006
Default

Originally Posted by Dominic Toretto View Post
Just messing with you man .

-Alex
I know, no worries. Just have fun with it, and if you have to take it in, hope you get a cool service manager!
__________________
downtime! is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks




Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump