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I ran into this on my car forum. I tend to side with the manufacturer's to some degree. There is a whole business out there that specializes in breaking car software on modding performance charateristics of the car.
The magnuson-moss warranty act allows the owner to choose parts they want to use and to have work done at other places, including oneself. It does not allow you to 'hack' the car's sw to either increase performance over manufacturer's spec or to disable or enable features.
To make it worse on the manufacturers owners will mod the car's sw (tune), have a failure, then expect the dealer to fix it under a warranty claim. I have to say, in this regard I side with the manufacturer. You are allowed to do anywork on the car you are able to do, oil changes, filter changes, spark plug changes, audio mods etc, You are not allowed to change the spec of the car then expect the dealer to fix it under warranty claim.
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