They don’t void the warranty. Whoever told you that is a fool or is lying.
This is what my local dealer told me. If I do the exhaust outside of dealership, it will void my warranty. Then proceeded to quote me almost 10k for exhaust, install and upmap. Any truth in this?
 
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Not in the USA. There are laws at the federal level, meaning you're covered in every state. This would be in addition to any protections in your state's laws. These laws protect owners in such an instance. They'd have to prove whatever you did is the direct cause of whatever problem you are trying to get repaired under warranty. So to say the bike's warranty is void because you put on an exhaust is misguided at best, moronic at worst.

I can see the new Akrapovic system being $10k. If they are going full .... with $7500 for the exhaust, plus install time and taxes, I can see that working out to $10k. There's no way in hell I'd pay that much.

The ONLY reason I have a full exhaust is that I sniped one on eBay for $3350 new in the box. At that price its reasonable for a full titanium system. For $10K....no way. Its a cool product, it sounds slightly better give marginally better performance, but you'd likely notice carbon fiber wheels more or take that $10K and have a hell of a track season(s).
 
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The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act prohibits product manufacturers from conditioning consumer warranties on the use of any original equipment part or service. Furthermore, a manufacturer can only deny warranty coverage if it can demonstrate that a non-original equipment part or related service caused a defect to occur in the original product.
 
Since the exhaust is a dealer catalog item, it would be a hard case to make that it caused a problem. The .... part is you may have to prove it in court, or at least have a lawyer send a nasty letter.
 
Not in the USA. There are laws at the federal level, meaning you're covered in every state. This would be in addition to any protections in your state's laws. These laws protect owners in such an instance. They'd have to prove whatever you did is the direct cause of whatever problem you are trying to get repaired under warranty. So to say the bike's warranty is void because you put on an exhaust is misguided at best, moronic at worst.

I can see the new Akrapovic system being $10k. If they are going full .... with $7500 for the exhaust, plus install time and taxes, I can see that working out to $10k. There's no way in hell I'd pay that much.

The ONLY reason I have a full exhaust is that I sniped one on eBay for $3350 new in the box. At that price its reasonable for a full titanium system. For $10K....no way. Its a cool product, it sounds slightly better give marginally better performance, but you'd likely notice carbon fiber wheels more or take that $10K and have a hell of a track season(s).


Wouldn't it be more likely that they would refuse the warranty claim then the product owner has to chase the manufacturer through the court system to make them honour it and in all likelihood pay restitution for costs etc. if successful.
In that scenario surely the product owner would have to prove what he/she did had no effect rather than the onus being on the manufacturer to prove it did? The manufacturer being the defendant, the burden of proof would be on the claimant i would have thought.
I'm not in the US, i hear the Magnussen Moss act thrown around a lot but in all reality, if it gets to that everyone loses except the lawyers, i'm only playing devils advocate, most of the time the warranty claims that are refused aren't worth the effort, and those that are, well, they're probably so complex that the costs involved to win it would exceed the value anyway, with the risk of costs on top if it's lost...... There's not usually much of an upside to court disputes, ask anyone who has been through a messy divorce...