SX APPEAL wrote:I currenty work in the parts department at an Infiniti dealership, so I feel I can weigh in a bit on some of the difficulties of what what your proposing (And no I'm not just going to repeat what everyone else already said)
For one, even if Stillen will back up Nissan's factory warranty (which I'm not sure they do) that by no means is any indication that NISSAN will honor their own warranty if the vehicle has aftermarket componants on it. For those of you who don't know how the warranty process works, a service department can agree to do work on a customer's car under warranty, the customer can walk out with no bill and a repaired car no questions asked. But then the service department has to submit a warranty claim to get paid back from Nissan/Infiniti for the work they just did. Until that money comes in, the dealership, NOT Nissan, is eating the cost of the repairs. I can only imagine the look on the waranty claims officer's face when a claim comes in to replace and engine in a 2014 370Z with a dealer installed turbo kit. HA! No chance in hell! So then I ask you, what dealership would install parts on a vehicle KNOWING FULL WELL that if the customer has any problems down the road, THEY'LL be the ones covering the cost of repairs?
So if your customer is ok with buying a brand new $45K-$50 vehicle with absolutely no warranty whatsoever, then yeah dealer installed turbo kits would be fine. This has not however, been my experience...
nissan wont warrenty its a program stillen themselves offer and has been used alot especially on the 370z's due the the vq37hrs blowing up on stillens own tune. The catch is the kit must be purchased and installed by a stillen authorized shop.
not only that one of the dealerships i worked at was sued for installing SLP parts(which you used to be able to buy "slp camaros" or "slp firebirds" from the dealer and was sued when the owner got into a wreck with the parts(was a GTO) so much grey area with stuff in the aftermarket and oem dealers. not to mention the news has been circulating the next gen will have a choice of either a turbo 4 or turbo 6 both from mercedes and it has been met with disdain. at the end of the day its not turbo or not turbo that has led to the decline, its a matter of less discretionary spending money, as well as an aging engine platform which when released was capable of keeping up with muscle cars of the time without modification and out handling them and now falls behind on power and is only barely a match in handling(not counting the charger/challanger dodge just cant really get anything right, even the new hell cat is most powerful v8 from the big auto manufacturers but its still slower then the mustang)