hey all considering picking up the trd s/c b/c i've noticed the price has significantly gone down since it first came out and now it is more affordable. the only thing i wanna know and i guess i am asking more for people who work at toyota to answer me or anyone else who knows the game real well, what does the warranty cover?
1. like if the supercharger dies do they cover it?
2. if my motor dies do they cover it?
3. " " " tranny dies do they cover it?

my car as of right now still has warranty so if i had the dealer install it i guess it would match up with the current warranty and i just want some peace of mind about it oh and what is the warranty like if i install it myself (father is a mechanic so he would put it in for me) if anyone has had certain experiences in this area if they could please let me know thanks!!!

 

This is going on my understanding of Toyota warranty, but for a concise idea, speak to your local dealer. And just for clarification, I do not speak for Toyota.

It depends. Toyota warranty will cover the replacement of the supercharger if there's a defect/flaw in workmanship for 12 months or 12K miles. Now if you have it installed by a Toyota certified dealer, the 12 month warranty will extend to remaining time left on your factory powertrain (engine/transmisison) warranty. If not installed by a Toyota dealer, it only has the 12 month parts warranty.

The installation of the supercharger will not automatically void the powertrain warranty. If you have a failure of a warrantable engine or transmission component that would be normally covered under warranty, it would need to be determined by the dealer that the supercharger and/or poor installation were not at fault before warranting a repair.

Refer to http://trdusa.com/warranty.cfm

 

yea I read some of the info on the website but I hear stories of people having the s/c installed by the dealer and still when something goes wrong they do not want to cover it like they just choose not too

 

The dealership will try their best to NOT cover the defect. They will try to blame it on something.

 

The warranty is junk! I don't know why Toyota gives it...

If your engine blow, change it to a built racing engine for the tC...

 

uhh yea i would love to do that the only thing is i can't afford to rebuild my motor or buy a new one....so that idea is out the window lol

 

its true, my failure had nothing to do with the S/C and they still didnt warranty it...

they said its my fault for not noticing lack of oil (which is un-true) and that I am a street racer (which I am not) and they didnt warranty mine...

Now I will be suing toyota, since I have my car back and running.

 

Yes
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5year 60k miles, if installed at a Toyota Dealership... and must not be modified to keep waranty in place. It helps knowing, having family, people at the Dealership you goto for Maintanence.

 

thats a nice life u got there ^ lol yea if i do get s/c i was planning on doing some small mods a bypass valve, 9.5 pulley, greddy s/c intake, i also have headers that i would put back in after the install from the dealer cuz i have to bring the car backn to stock what i'm worried about is they can track my driving habits by the ecu and if i ever needed to bring it in for service i would bring it back to stock once again to have it serviced

 

you couldnt bring it back to stock, it has a tamper proof cap or tamper proof bolt...

plus its people like you thinking like they can return it to stock and "screw" the company / dealer over that made me pay for a new motor rather than covered under warranty.

If you want to modify your car like that, you take your chances, and if you screw it up, you pay for it!

 

^^ true but i'm not gonna scold you for that comment cuz i see where your coming from considering you had to buy a new motor i feel kinda bad but i don't think thats the reason i know people that have srt-4's and they are always arguing back and forth with dodge b/c they will throw mopar parts on the car and the dealers won't warranty them or blame it on that specific part even though it's made by mopar and is "made" for the car so i don't think you can blame something like that "on people like me"

 

That comment did come off a little bitter.... but I ment it as a warning.

However due to the tamperproof parts, it would be hard to bring it back to stock.

 

so that bolt you were talking about it has something on there that if you touch it, it breaks? that would suck...yea idk what i'm gonna do i might just buy it and have my srt buddies help me install it...the only thing is i would need the trd ecu reflash thing right? and again no warranty...this sux

 

ya once installed, all you need to do is get your ECU flashed.... they usually recommend not to run it until its flashed.

From what ive seen, the latest ones use a tamper proof bolt, the prior ones used to have a cap over the bolt that you'd have to practically break to take off.

ya they are very specific about the warranty and that it would have to be bone stock to have a warranty (and even then sometimes they wont warranty it)

 

yea i dont know why they offer the warranty if they don't feel like covering it there is really no point...w/e i think i might just throw it in if something breaks i can beg my father to help me fix it (he's a mechanic but hates when i work on my car) or may b my srt buddies can help me

 

Amen. this is what I wrote in another post,

"Yeah that is true it will be under warranty until someone mod it or if the dealership think you beat on it even if it's stock. lol You have the read the warranty papers. If your supercharger is stock and it's having problems and the dealership think that you or someone raced it hard they will not cover it under warranty, I'm Just giving people heads up.


I ask myself "why do they give us a supercharger if they don't want us to push it. What do they want us to do with the supercharger then? Drive slow with it?" Why can't TRD be more like GMPP? GMPP has upgrades for the cobalt supercharger and they want the owners of the cobalt to push it."

it's not worth the stress. You need to know someone that work for toyota to get help.