Consequences of "off road only"

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So I may or may not have "off road use only" parts on my card. mainly exhaust but also intake and tune.

important notes: I do have a cat on my exhaust and am still under warranty and am also tuned.

I'm also about to take my car to the dealership for an oil change (I get maybe 2 to 3 oil changes per year there for free so going back to stock would be extremely annoying).

So my questions are:

1) what will the dealership likely say or do to me?

2) what is the worst thing they could do but probably wouldn't?

3) should I just suck it up and go to an oil change place instead or do it myself (had a spill with oil before and enjoy not doing it myself anymore)?

4) have you ever taken their car to the dealer with mods before?

5) what would you do about the tune?

Note: I have bought several new cars at this dealership and even referred people to them. If they void my warranty I really dont care THAT much because I would understand if they had to.

Edit: thanks for the info so far. A couple friends think they will void my warranty, but I figured I'd ask you guys since youre more experienced with this.
 
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They won't say a thing. They don't care. Aftermarket parts will not void the whole car warranty. They'll just do your oil change and go on to the next customer.
 
I agree with @webby ....... When you take a car to be serviced, they service it........ If you take a car to complain about a warranty issue, and they find that a part that's not stock caused it, then they're going to bring it up.... But their profits come as much from servicing cars, as from selling new ones. They don't want to run their customers off........
 
^^ This. The tech was like, hey man nice mods, since you added a CAI we obviously didn't change the air filter but got the cabin one done. Later.
 
Unless you complain like @Monk said about something for warranty that has a tie with the aftermarket part then they wont care. I'm sure Honda in general knows that most Si's (assuming that's what you drive) will be modded to some degree. Just be ready to pull any parts that may be associated with your complaint if you ever have one just in case.
 
I don't think anyone at the dealer will really care, most of them at my local Honda were too busy taking pictures of my car to care about warranty or anything hahah
 
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