I am curious, did anyone buy up thier factory warranty? I plan on keeping my car for ....... a while. So when purchasing it I paid over $2k to bump the 3/36 bumper to bumper to 5/75 b2b. I got a little card in the mail to show the extended coverage. My logic was that with 400HP things are bound to bend or break!
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Yeah - I am paying an extra $15/mo. for coverage up to 48k miles or 4 years. They wanted 20 a month and i said no thanks, then he dropped it down and since they're giving me free oil changes for life, i said what the hell, only another fifteen bucks.
Be cautious, some extended warranty companies will try to do anything to get out of paying, and when they have to they use used parts or cheap aftermarket!!!! (I deal with them everyday) There are a few of them out there that are good, however!! :cheers
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I got my 5/75 as part of my price negotiations. The advantage is, if they discount the warranty and you sell the car early, you only get a refund off of the discounted price. In my case I paid full price for the warranty and they discounted the car to cover the warranty cost.
Also I agree with Gtodealer about off brand warranties. A friend purchased a warranty from a company on a car that he bought. They sent a nice packet in the mail, and in it was an offer to put warranties on any other cars he owned. He did that on his two other cars. About two months later his transmission went out on the one car and he called the warranty company to find out they went out of business. He ended up out the cost of three warranties, plus had to pay for a transmission.
Also when you go to a GM dealer with a GMPP they seem to take better care of you.
Also I agree with Gtodealer about off brand warranties. A friend purchased a warranty from a company on a car that he bought. They sent a nice packet in the mail, and in it was an offer to put warranties on any other cars he owned. He did that on his two other cars. About two months later his transmission went out on the one car and he called the warranty company to find out they went out of business. He ended up out the cost of three warranties, plus had to pay for a transmission.
Also when you go to a GM dealer with a GMPP they seem to take better care of you.
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I always found extended warranties to be a waste of money.
...but I've never owned a 400hp car either.
...but I've never owned a 400hp car either.
Well, this is actually just bumping the factory 3/36 to 5/75. I would agree that aftermarket extended warranties are usually not worth the money, too many exclusions. I had a 5/60 on my last car and was happy to have had it when the AC compressor died. When the finance guy asked me about the warranty I immediatly said no, and while he was punching keys I stated my opinion about extended warranties and when he told me it was the same B2B offered by the manufaturer I couldnt resist.
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Exact same thing I got, but with a $50 deductible after 36k/36months. They told me it was worth $1500 because of the deductible, but I think it was 2k without. I'm with you, would never be without it. All it takes is 1 component of this beast to fail in 75k and you get your money back.JMVorbeck said:
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Thats good if you keep your car for over 3 years.But if you are like me getting a car every 2 or 3 years you will not need one.Good luck too alllll
I took my GTO into the dealer today. After wading through a sea of Q-tips waiting for thier Buicks to get serviced I found my way to the service manager. I asked him about some performance mods for my GTO. His reaction was one of astonishment. He asked me why would I want to do that? I didnt really have an answer for him, I guess he has spent too much time replacing dry rotted tires on 10 year old buicks with 5000 miles. He told me GM will never have anything like that for that car. Whatever. I asked him about CAI's, reprogramming my DIC to enable the shift light, ECM tuning and supercharging. He said never heard of programming the DIC for a shift light, didnt know it had one but it wouldnt affect my warranty. I could do the CAI if I wanted, it wouldnt affect the warranty. As for tuning the ECM, if I did that it would completely void my warranty as would a supercharger. He said if I made any changes that would change the output power of the vehicle it would void my warranty. I can understand the supercharger but the tuning thing really suprised me. Is this pretty standard?
Reprogramming anything in the ECM will void the warranty. The first thing they will do is check the codes. That's why a chip would be better in the early life of the ride. You program the chip to override the ECM. If you bring it in, take the chip out and the ECM will be factory.
If you have the ECM reflashed for about $300, they could reset it to factory if you bring it in.
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If you have the ECM reflashed for about $300, they could reset it to factory if you bring it in.
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I bought the 100k mile warranty...which is really only good for ~2-1/2 years of driving for me. The 36k mile standard warranty is pathetic and, frankly, embarrassing when most other mfg go at to 50k.
I only really plan on using it for catastrophic stuff...the last GM I owned (an S10 V6 p/u) threw a connecting rod through the block...
I only really plan on using it for catastrophic stuff...the last GM I owned (an S10 V6 p/u) threw a connecting rod through the block...
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Will never forget the sound my 1994 Mustang GT with 25,000 miles made when it dropped a valve while driving a whopping 45 miles per hour on 19th Avenue in San Francisco. Sounded like a metal garbage can was stuck under the car.
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