Originally Posted by
Barry2
Is a Dealer authorized to mitigate a disclaimer placed on a vehicle by the Manufacturer, I suspect not.
I would not trust whatever they “tell” you. It’s in writing or it never happened.
Likely the best they could offer is not to notice the hitch if you come in for transmission issues.
Barry
Mitigate? No, but the dealer technician is the only person who is going to see that hitch. Nobody is going to put anything in writing, either.
The last 30 years of my job was at new car dealers as a technician. For a warranty claim to be denied for something like a bike rack hitch would be unheard of and any dealer who did that would have to be a vengeful prick.