fatsport

Good advice.
I have a C3 also, was on here years ago. Obviously there are no warranty issues.
I'd wager 95% of the C7 owners on here have there car under warranty. It's pretty clear when a vendor advertises in the C7 section they're trying to get people to screw their warranty and get more hp out of their motor.
Conflict of interest here on the mods part.

proexpert

It a free country, the vendors are not trying to screw anybody. Everyone has the right to modify their car regardless of the warranty. Maybe some don't care about the warranty and would rather mod the car for the "sport" of it. In that case, the vendors provide good products and service. There is no conflict of interest for anybody involved. Relax it's all good.

Steve_R

How so?

This forum is owned by a for-profit company called Internet Brands. They make money various ways, including from the vendors who pay to advertise here. Most (all?) of the moderators here are volunteers, not vendors or employees of IB. I fail to see any more conflict of interest here than the ads in the back of Car & Track or similar magazine.

mschuyler

Seriously? You still think GM is monitoring this site to take names in case someone says "headers"? How would that work, exactly? You're "fatsport" from Jupiter, right? So GM must have access to the NSA database and local DOL to correlate "fatsport" with John Doe living in Tacoma, Washington in case John Doe ever makes a warranty claim on a C7 involving the drivetrain. How would they know who you are fatsport? Think about it.

And I'm also not following this "clear conflict of interest" idea. What conflict? It's legal to sell headers, right? It's legal to buy them, right? Now you know that installing different headers might void the warranty, so if you do, you do so with full knowledge. It would be a legitimate transaction. And this is not a GM site. We don't need GM's permission to be here. So why is it a conflict of interest for a legitimate seller of products to advertise here? I don't get it.

449er

Lol!!

Zymurgy

Your post was deleted because it violated one of the forum rules. I sent you a PM explaining it. Although I was not the Moderator that deleted the post, I would have if another Moderator had not already done it.

Zymurgy

ALL. All of the Moderators are volunteers that get paid zero, zilch, nada, zip, nil, nothing.

Steve_R

I thought so.

I've been a moderator on a 4x4 forum for many years. No pay. It's a thankless job.

Racingswh

I always had a hunch someone was "watching" me. I should've known it was GM.

No wonder the oil change and differential service at the dealer today took 4 hours and 15 minutes from my time of arrival to finish. They were obviously running their super secret diagnostics on it.

mschuyler

Well of course. You have a yellow vette and are from Pennsylvania? They probably thought you were Streetspeed717, and you KNOW how he abuses his cars.

Racingswh

Now that you mention it I was asked several times "Is that your Yellow Vette"? Yep they were searching for something. They weren't getting anything from me though. I let my "On Star" report do all the talking!!

dbirdhouse1

as others have hinted at your choice of vocabulary at least implies a secretive, ulterior motive that I don't think applies. I would even go so far as to say it would be less than reasonable if they didn't observe....we are a ready pool of data/observations for them to consider.

Jay_Davis

GM would only look at the forums if they cared about their customers. As far as evidence for warranty issues, they don't need any to decide to cause you problems and they can always have the lawyers look later.

So most of this forum is pretty open. The only part section of this forum that behaves more like GM's Gestapo is the Ask Tadge section. Put a post there about A8 problems or overheating and you will be treated the same way as if you asked the White House Press Secretary about Russian involvement in the election, just perhaps without the IRS auditing you.

LT4CMG

Corvette ED

Explain to how GM is going to void your warranty from posting about mods on Corvette Forum? Everybody has a user name(not their real name) and how are they going to get your vin number from here to void your warranty?

The Rabbi

They have connections with Russian hackers to catch members who have modded their new cars.

FX VETTE

sunsalem

VERY true...that was my experience with my CTS-V.

NO FAIR!
I wasn't sober when you took this pic of me!

Agreed.
In spite of this being the largest Corvette forum on the net, the regular posters to the site are a very small number when contrasted with the total amount of Vette owners out there.
The sampling here is just too small for GM to draw any meaningful conclusions.

Which is why I have wondered over the years why anyone would want to do it.
I don't know about here, but some websites I have frequented offer mods modest discounts on products and little perks like that.
Most every mod I have ever talked to has said something to the effect it is a "thankless job."

Yeah, that.

OnPoint

Unless somebody is bent on trying to commit fraud with GM on a warrant claim, this is a non-issue.

I've purchased 4 new vettes in the last 10 years and modded every one of them. Everybody knows you pay to play. You mod - it's on you. So there is no conflict of interest with having vendors sell performance parts as sponsors of the forum.

The only thing people need to be careful about with performance mods is determining up front if they're willing to carry the freight. I.e. whether it's for them or not. If not, great, enjoy the peace of mind of your warranty. If so, great, enjoy your increased performance and understand you own it. All of it.

NSC5

It might have been Mr. McMinion watching you. I believe he was fired for watching customers at McDonald's so he may now work for GM.