dbbd1
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I have seen bone stock 2017 and 2018 gm vehicles with not even a muffler delete, let alone an aftermarket intake or exhaust show a ten percent fuel trim and still run fine. I have also seen others that are bone stock with plus or minus 2 percent fuel trims.. you guys are hilarious that say because you did it, it is fact. You simply have zero idea how it works.. the reason why one vehicle can pull it off and the other can't is because of the vast tolerances. I get that gm offers a kit, if they want to install it, and do flash upgrades, then you are good to go!
Some times the truck is the one with ten percent fuel trims bone stock, and the air intake makes it 20 percent and destroyes the limits of factory calibrated correction, and sometimes you have a truck that the air intake pushes the limits to the limits of the stock calibration limits.
The moral of the story is if you want an air intake on a 2017 and up gm with warranty, buy a gm unit and have them install it. This world is seriously messed up these days with people thinking everyone owes them something. If you built vehicles for a living, why in the living heck would you want to warranty someone messing with you stuff? It's like robbing a bank because you think they have enough money and shouldn't care. I supercharge and turbo new gms all the time.. I do my best to get my guys warranty through the channels I have, but if if you are going to be a ***** about it, how about you just leave the truck the way you paid for it and not blame the people that built it for doing it wrong after you change the way they built it? Seems pretty simple.
Perhaps, but...
For them to blatantly deny warranty simply because of a mod is wrong. In fact, in my case, it wasn't even a mod per se. I bought my rig used and it had the windshield replaced. When I got it, the rainsense would not work. GM would not even look at, check out their end of things (I.e. Electronics, wiring, etc) because it was an aftermarket windshield. They looked for the GM logo on the windshield, didn't see it and said "you're on your own." There are stories of claims being denied on the drive train because of intake mods. Really? Supercharger, maybe, an air filter though?
Again, I refer back to the magnuson-moss act...