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Apr 30, 2006 | 07:00 PM

howieheels

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I finally went down to harley and ordered my sound kit. They are Vance and Hines turn down slip ons, fuel pack, and a/c kit. The manager wanted to make sure I knew that if something catastrophic happens to the engine, Harley would void the warranty. My questions is what are the chances of this happening? Also, does anyone have this sound kit and if so, how does it sound? How much improvement on performance will I get? I have two weeks to back out. Thanks for the help!

Apr 30, 2006 | 07:13 PM

Bruce00

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THis is from the dealer you bought the bike from? If it is, he sure sounds like a winner

If the bike is tuned correctly you would have a better chance of hitting the lottery than hurting the motor

Apr 30, 2006 | 07:28 PM

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Would be nice to hit the LOTTERY!

Apr 30, 2006 | 07:31 PM

103FLHX

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V&H have sound clips on their site.

I did not find them that useful, but give a visit.

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Apr 30, 2006 | 07:38 PM

Bryan TTM

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find another dealer, yours aint cuttin it....but your choices will be just fine and you'll never hurt your motor

Apr 30, 2006 | 07:38 PM

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The manager wanted to make sure I knew that if something catastrophic happens to the engine, Harley would void the warranty.

Chief,

You might want to ask the manager if he has ever heard of the Magnusson-Moss act. In a nutshell, they CANNOT void a warranty for installing aftermarket parts. They may, however, deny coverage of a failure IF and only IF they can show that the aftermarket parts caused the failure. The dealers feed people this BS all the time to try to sell Harley parts rather than aftermarket.

Teu

P.S. Enjoy the sound kit

Apr 30, 2006 | 08:46 PM

bay13

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You might want to ask the manager if he has ever heard of the Magnusson-Moss act. In a nutshell, they CANNOT void a warranty for installing aftermarket parts. They may, however, deny coverage of a failure IF and only IF they can show that the aftermarket parts caused the failure. The dealers feed people this BS all the time to try to sell Harley parts rather than aftermarket.

Part of the problem is that the person at the dealer is no more a lawyer than we are reading the Mugnusson-Moss act. I agree with everyone else, find another dealer if you can. I also wouldn't start quoting legal stuff to a person at the dealer, cause "chances" are you don't know any more about the legal stuff than they do.

The dealer I bought my bike from has performance up grades for sale, from 95 to 103 kits on brand new bikes. They are not going to do anything to the bike that HD wouldn't pay for should something fail. Mods on the air intake and pipes is so common that it's really the norm. Some dealers have after market exhausts for sale right in the store, right along with Mustang seats, Corbin seats etc. If all of a sudden every HD that had pipes on them were to magically change to stock pipes, everyone would wonder where all the HD's went.

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May 1, 2006 | 02:43 AM

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ORIGINAL: howieheels

I finally went down to harley and ordered my sound kit. They are Vance and Hines turn down slip ons, fuel pack, and a/c kit. The manager wanted to make sure I knew that if something catastrophic happens to the engine, Harley would void the warranty. My questions is what are the chances of this happening? Also, does anyone have this sound kit and if so, how does it sound? How much improvement on performance will I get? I have two weeks to back out. Thanks for the help!

"Side bar your Honor"

FYI: Don't know what kind of discount dealer is giving you but these 3 mods can be done by yourself and can be bought online from someone like M&M Cycles at a discount of at least 20%.

Primo

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