Suspension upgrades vs Voiding factory warranty

Be careful with this assumption. You may find, as I have, that whilst the vendor will warrant the replacement item, they will not warrant any peripheral damage. The vehicle manaufacturer may not honour their warranaty if they believe the aftermarket component led to the damage.

For example, if you replace the suspension, particularly with a lift kit, and it fails, also causing steering component failure, you may find the suspension is covered by the aftermarket vendor warranty but not the steering. Then the vehicle manaufacture will refuse to cover the steering because it believes the up-lifted replacement suspension led to the sterring componentry failure. Who pays for the steering repairs? You do! How do I know? Bitter experience. Worse still, the vehicle and suspension manufacturers may both argue the failure of the other component led to the damage of their component and neither pays and the fourbie doesn't get fixed while the argument rages.

Advice: check with your vehicle manufacturer (preferrably Head Office, not a dealer) and get it in writing, if you can.

Luck!

I would also get confirmation from the manufacturer. The reverse situation hapened to me with Subaru. The dealer was playing 'hard to get' in regard to a gearbox issue as the car was 12 months out of warranty. When I contacted Subaru Australia they told the dealer to fix the problem under waranty! I didn't have anything in writing, but I recorded the phone conversations. In reard to lift kits, I have a copy of GUIDELINES FOR THE USE OF LIFT KITS ON 4WD VEHICLES under consideration in WA - I will post it as a new message.

Just on that, there was a Jeep on a tow truck coming out of Gary Leckie Nissan/Jeep in Frankston the othe rday.

I asked George behind the counter what the go was, he said it was broken driveline parts, I THINK...

Something anyway there was NO warranty as the car had a body lift, and as part of the kit there was supposed to be stronger something fitted, it wasnt and this caused the failure.. was being taken away else where to get fixed, non gen parts were cheaper. it was $1k+ damage!

Be careful with this dude, could end up costing you...

One other thing to watch out for Jack's. They can break the halfshafts on the front end if the wheel travel has been extended too much. That's another reason to ensure you don't lift by more than 25mm on the front and allow for a bit of travel.