5 year/150,000 warranty.

There was talk about warranties.
I have a local dealer that offers a
5 year/150,000 power train warranty on used cars 6 year old or newer and under 80K.
warranty

Most of those warrantied when I have read them only covered things like the transmission case or such that you never have a problem with anyway. The bearings ,bands and alll the wear parts are never covered. Had a girlfriend years back that wanted to get the waranty on a used road tractor one time. I told her I waould not get it.She insisted till she read the things not covered. The engine warranty would not cover things like turbo, crank, heads and such. Would cover the block and things that were again not a problem. So far as I'm concerned they are just a come on to get more cash from fools.

Never had a power train problem always been rust in Wisconsin, dont know about these newer CV transmissions though.

yes, thats the way i see it. one time i told a salesman you want to to buy extended warranty on this new truck ? i said they should be lasting more than 3 years and plan to keep it longer than that. he said i like your thinking. never have bought extended warranty.

They have more ways to weasel out of the contract than doans has kiddy pills. Gets us a copy of the contract its in the details.

Those dealer warranties are pretty well junk. They don't cover much and they require the work be done at the dealership where they will pad the bill with all manner of not covered extras and hard sell crap.

Do not consider buying any warranty other than a factory backed one such as the Ford ESP plans. Even on those search around as there are some dealers who sell them online at a much lower price than your local dealership and it is the exact same plan.

They are junk. When they fail, they have to be replaced because there is no fixing them. VERY expensive!!

I lost the front differential yesterday on a new IH, company bought three of them and mine was the second one to have the differential fail (they put the third one out of service yesterday till they go through it) and no one wants to pay for the first one. We will see about the second one. First failed at 10,000 and mine let go at 15000. And I mean let go, you can see inside of it, I have never ventilated anything before yesterday!

Thanks for shopping on line tip. When I bought the mustang this summer dealer wanted a bunch of money for an extension and wouldn't negotiate. My attitude
then was might as well trade more often for a new warranty with a new vehicle. His pitch was repairs are so expensive not hard to justify the cost.

I wouldn't trust any of them. A friend bought a new Nissan in 15 with a dealer lifetime warranty. Free oil changes but you couldn't go over a specific mileage. You also had to do all recommended service. It got a new battery in the fob and a new cabin filter every oil change. That was $100. Other items would pop up also at other times. The straw that broke the camels back was when she went for an oil change and they told her it needed $1,600 worth of other fluid changes. That was the last time it was at the dealership.

First time in my life I bought a bumper to bumper warranty when I bought our last used Kia minivan - it supposedly covered bumper to bumper for 5 years or until it gets to 160K miles. I had great luck in the past with Kia vans but I just had a bad feeling about this one - but with nnalert the used market was very limited. First time we had an issue was about a month after we bought it - power steering failed - a hose had popped off while towing it to the shop the power doors quit working (?). To fix the power doors they had to drop the headliner, to drop the headliner all the seats had to be removed to feed it out the rear hatch. The warranty people at first denied everything - then eventually picked up half the cost (instead of the full cost less $100 - took them 3 weeks to finally approve and we were without the van for almost 4 weeks.


About 2 months after that the transmission failed. I had a suspicion about it as once in the while it didn't feel right - lots of slipping in the lower gears then it work as it should for a week or more. They didn't want to cover anything on that - even though the transmission was in my opinion pretty cheap - only $2300 installed. Eventually I pulled the dealer in and they chewed on them for a while and eventually they agreed to abide by their written contract - van was in the shop for almost 2 months that time - 6 weeks of it was me waiting on the warranty people to make a decision. I truly think they were wanting me to do the work then they would claim it wasn't authorized and either not pay or only pay a small amount. I do my own oil changes and document the work in the owners manual but I am pretty screwed if the engine ever needs any work - I don't have receipts for oil changes since I do them myself.

The after market warranties are hardly worth the paper they are written on. I will have warranty coverage on electrical items and the like - if they decide to cover them.