What's the deal with mods?

[RSwag]

I'm a little confused, when i first had my RS on order the issue of mods came up and the general view point was that any mods were forbidden on any vehicle still under original warranty. I ended up getting the Golf Wag 1.4 118kw so i decided on no mods as i still felt their is a question mark on how much the twincharger technology could take outside its original parameters.

Anyway thats a side issue, the main thing i wanted was a good FULLY functioning bluetooth kit. The genuine one i got fitted was really just an answer and hang up job. I was looking at the posts and noticed one of the dealers actively advertising a NON genuine product. Being that it is a non genuine product that is required to interface with the CANBUS internal management and wiring system, is this appropriate for a dealer to be doing??

I recall some people were very scathing towards one of the inner city dealers (richmond i think??) for encouraging after market mods, the same people who are now actively engaging dealers in conversations to do just this with the bluetooth.

Has VW Australia got more relaxed with their rules on aftermarket add ons, does anyone have ay experience with this?

[dodgey]

It wont be the first time that the dealer sell a non VW bluetooth unit as a genuine kit. With the MkV it was a Parrot kit that they sold as the official genuine kit, with the Skoda, it's a Nokia kit that they are selling as the official genuine kit. So long as they say they will cover it under warranty, it's an option and not a mod.

Perhaps the issue is that they feel the official units are too expensive and no one would buy it... An official (non Australian) VW/Skoda unit will cost close to $1k, and that ties in with everything, and close to $2k if you get the premium kit with RSAP. They can install an official (and "genuine") Nokia unit for a couple of hundred and charge more for it and still not get close to the price it would cost to get the VW basic unit in.

I guess some dealers have found units like the Fiscon unit that works well with our cars for somewhere in between the Nokia and official unit in pricing.

At the end of the day, if the dealer is putting it in, anything that goes wrong, they will need to fix it. They'll charge VW to fix I guess..

(My 2c worth)

[K1W1]

If the dealer fits it and blows the car up it's the dealers problem not the car owners (well not financially at least).

Modifications under warranty are always a bit of a debating point but under the law VW or Skoda in this case would have to be able to prove that the modification was a direct cause of whatever failure occurred. If you change your turbocharger and then your brakes fail there is no way that the manufacturer can get out of the brake failure under warranty.