k20a_ep3

I bought my civic a year ago, comes with 3 yr bumper to bumper and 5 yr engine, transmission and suspension warranty.
Now I wanna lower my car. Someone said if I change anything about the suspension e.g. lowering spring, coilover, then the warranty will be void.
Anyone has any experiences about this?
please tell me...

imported2nv

it is subjective to the dealer you bring it to, if you put just springs and you blow a shock it will not be covered by warranty. and if you bottom your car out because of being to low and lets say you damage the exhaust it again will not be covered.
so you see if you change a factory part and the part you change has any ill affect on the car you will not be covered.

k20a_ep3

Usually how long can the stock shocks stand if I put the lowering spring on it?

imported_Transformer Guy

They should last about a year or so but ive heard of people blowing them a lot faster than that. The person who installed the springs must have been an idiot....

k20a_ep3

haha...seems like I need to buy a coilover instead......lots of $$

imported_loudsubz

just put ur stock stuff back in if u have to do warrenty work

k20a_ep3

everytime I need to pay the labour then......

imported2nv

the amount of labour is little compared to the price of new shocks.

bbarbulo

iTrader: (2)

pay for labour?? Mac struts are so easy to do... I'd do them for fun! except you'd need an alignment every time you did that.

either live with a voided warranty or don't mod. There is no third choice.

who needs warranty... if anything is broken, it need UPGRADING anyways

get a full set of coilovers.

k20a_ep3

easy to install? not for the new type of civic i guess. They are using mcpherson shocks

k20a_ep3

damn...that's y I don't like new car....
the price drop fast and the stuff I wanna buy for my car usually cost me a lot coz they are new release.
You know how much for a coilover i asked for my car? over $1900 !!
I should buy a 2nd hand instead

bbarbulo

iTrader: (2)

I was talking about YOUR car in particular. I've done 5 Mac cars in the last 2 years... it's easy work. There are 5 bolts total per side on most of them. 3 on the upper mount, and two on the knuckle. Does it get any easier??

imported_loudsubz

only thing I dont like is trying to get the axle to click in after Im done, first time I did it took me forever to get it right

k20a_ep3

Cool~~~
I think I should learn how to take them off first