Just picked up an 08 is350 with 33k miles. Purchased an extended warranty. Can I put a joez intake on it and cut hole on side of airbox without affecting my warranty? Thanks for the help.

 

Do some searching on CL, because this has been discussed to death, and some Googling, particularly on Magnuson-Moss. Modifying your car in no way affects any warranty at all except in one way: the aftermarket parts themselves will not be covered by the warranty, nor will any damage caused by failure of those parts. As an example, if you install an intake, your warranty will apply in full to everything it did before EXCEPT it won't cover the intake, and it won't cover any damage caused by failure of that part.

Say you install an aftermarket intake and it fails somehow. That repair wouldn't be covered. Say you install an intake and your navigation screen goes out. Your nav screen WILL still be covered, because it was in no way affected by the intake.

Say you install some aftermarket suspension components, they fail and cause other stock suspension components to break. In that case, NONE of the repairs are covered because they were caused by the aftermarket parts that aren't covered.

 

Yep, Calvin nailed it

 

Calvins explanation should be a sticky or included in the 2IS FAQ thread!

 

put that nail in the "will this void my warranty" coffin!

 

It'd take 5 minutes to swap the stock intake back on anyways...even if you were in fear that the intake would somehow effect the motor's warranty.

 

Went in for my 15k service today. On the paperwork they specifically stated CUSTOMER HAS F SPORT INTAKE DID NOT SERVICE written on it =)

 

I hope you didn't pay for the "15k service"
It's just an oil change and cleaning the filter, the rest is just inspections.

If you paid for the 15k service, you would have basically paid for them to change the oil and do some inspections.
You should have just been paying for an oil change.

 

Still under the factory warranty. Free =)

 

^ so did they end up servicing your vehicle even though you had the intake? I'm considering the f sport but just need to know if I have to pay the dealer to install so if I do have a problem down the road they won't pull some **** and blame the intake...

 

Unless you screw the install up pretty badly yourself (and that's hard to do) I can't even think of a problem they could blame on the intake.