Nissan Consumer Affairs Oil Cooler Response

ChrisSlicks

If my oil cooler blows a line and kills my engine because I installed wrong or whatever I'm cool with that. What I don't want happening is Nissan voiding the entire warranty because "obviously I'm tracking the car if I needed an oil cooler". I also don't want to have the hassle of swapping it in and out every time I need to go in for a major service.

butters167

Legally they can't, they may try but it is up to the owner to fight back. If it is not related to the problem they can't use it against you. And one part will cannot void the whole warranty. An oil cooler or any part is not going to void the entire warranty even if it goes bad. At most only the area covered. Oil is not going to affect the warranty on say your shocks.

280z/300zx

Tell that to the Subaru guys. Subaru will deny your warranty based on the fact that it's a performance car so obviously it was driver abuse. A lot of people here keep saying it's illegal but what you are failing to see is that they can deny it if they want to. It's up to you at that point to pay out of your pocket to fight it in court. So many WRX owners have taken their car in for busted trannys only for them to be denied repair even though they couldn't prove that it was a direct result of abusive driving. Simply put they stated that the tranny wouldn't have busted if driven properly. Nevermind the fact that the gears in the car are too weak for the amount of power the car is putting out stock. This is a similar situation with the Z. Nissan can easily say that under normal driving conditions the temps should be fine and anything causing abnormal temps is abusive driving and simply deny the warranty. Sure it's bad buisness and possibly even illegal but at the same time you have to pay out of pocket initially try to prove your case. Nissan has us by the balls on this one if they choose to.