Good Guy GM Won't Junk Your Warranty If You Break Your Chevrolet Camaro On Track

Fancy taking your brand new sixth-gen Camaro around track but scared about warranty ramifications? According GM, there's no need to worry
Good Guy GM Won't Junk Your Warranty If You Break Your Chevrolet Camaro On Track

If the only thing holding you back from a track outing in the new Camaro is a concern over something going wrong and landing you with a big bill, there’s no need to worry. Camaro Chief Engineer Al Oppenheiser has said that if you experience an issue on track while driving one of the new sixth-gen Camaros, General Motors will still honour the warranty.

There are things to bear in mind such as modifications, but if you play by the rules, your car is covered. Speaking to Motor Authority, Oppenheiser said: “if you’re not modifying your car and you take your production car to a track day and you have an issue with one of your parts, it’s covered under warranty….We know when somebody changes their ECM calibration and we know if they changed to a cold-air intake, we can tell all that. But driving it as you break it in from the dealership, if you have a half-shaft or whatever, it’s covered.” Another caveat is that it depends what Camaro you’re driving: you’ll need to be in an SS model or higher to be covered.

As a reminder, thanks to a lower weight figure and an increase in power, the new SS is actually as fast as the old Z/28, with its 6.2-litre V8 hauling it from 0-60mph in four seconds dead.

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Comments

Anonymous

“4 seconds dead”

I NEED IT!

04/04/2016 - 13:24 |
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V-Tech and EcoBoost kicked in yo

Nice to see companies are letting you use track machines for the track. After it wasn’t long ago when some company decided to void the warranty if you used launch control on their AWD twin turbo V6.

04/04/2016 - 14:40 |
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Dave 12

That’s brave! Considering the sort of driving I see from track newbies. I think most track drivers have that epiphany about 10 mins in when they realize they’ve been doing it all wrong and Forza actually isn’t the best preparation in life.

04/04/2016 - 14:57 |
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[Flux]

Awesome!

Now, I just need to wait a few years and build up roughly 35K and I’ll be set!

04/04/2016 - 15:50 |
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Nanahira is my Waifu

Still waiting for a full redesign of the Camaro, i honestly don’t really like how it looks.

04/04/2016 - 22:45 |
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James Leeder

Soo… If I happen to “experience an issue on track” and then immediately “experience an issue off track” is that covered as well or…?

04/04/2016 - 23:34 |
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Marshal Stomm

Now if only the frat boys
A) Went to the track
B) Were informed of this
C) Cared whether or not their Dad has to pay out of pocket

04/05/2016 - 09:39 |
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