Aftermarket extended warranty options? Please LMK which company is best!
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Aftermarket extended warranty options? Please LMK which company is best!
Hello,
I am out of warranty this upcoming January and would like advice on which company to go with for an extended warranty. I’ve searched the board and heard of Fidelity as a good one. I would like to continue to go to the dealer and have work done there so please lmk! Thanks!
I am out of warranty this upcoming January and would like advice on which company to go with for an extended warranty. I’ve searched the board and heard of Fidelity as a good one. I would like to continue to go to the dealer and have work done there so please lmk! Thanks!
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Fidelity is good. We have used it on a few cars. Always bought it and serviced it at Fletcher Jones Newport Beach.
If you buy it from there make sure you negotiate the price they will always end up discounting it about 20% from the first quote they give you.
If you buy it from there make sure you negotiate the price they will always end up discounting it about 20% from the first quote they give you.
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https://rennlist.com/forums/997-forum/884419-fidelity-platinum-extended-warranty-recent-prices-here-15.html
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Extended warranties are sold by people that MAKE MONEY off people that dont realize that cars these days are very unlikely to consume the cost of the extended warranty for the duration of the warranty. Otherwise put the people that sell this **** do use math and statistical data and sell this crap to people that use no math and only fear of the unknown to buy the warranty.
Go read the exclusions in one of those warranty and you will see they have so many loopholes to deny a claim its sad..............
Personally I like the mantra that owning a car also includes the cost of fixing it and anyone that cant face that concept probably should not own that car. Adding to this if someone is afraid a car is going to need extended warranty work then why the hell did they buy that car in the first place?
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Go read the exclusions in one of those warranty and you will see they have so many loopholes to deny a claim its sad..............
Personally I like the mantra that owning a car also includes the cost of fixing it and anyone that cant face that concept probably should not own that car. Adding to this if someone is afraid a car is going to need extended warranty work then why the hell did they buy that car in the first place?
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Extended warranties are sold by people that MAKE MONEY off people that dont realize that cars these days are very unlikely to consume the cost of the extended warranty for the duration of the warranty. Otherwise put the people that sell this **** do use math and statistical data and sell this crap to people that use no math and only fear of the unknown to buy the warranty.
Go read the exclusions in one of those warranty and you will see they have so many loopholes to deny a claim its sad..............
Personally I like the mantra that owning a car also includes the cost of fixing it and anyone that cant face that concept probably should not own that car. Adding to this if someone is afraid a car is going to need extended warranty work then why the hell did they buy that car in the first place?
Katie
Go read the exclusions in one of those warranty and you will see they have so many loopholes to deny a claim its sad..............
Personally I like the mantra that owning a car also includes the cost of fixing it and anyone that cant face that concept probably should not own that car. Adding to this if someone is afraid a car is going to need extended warranty work then why the hell did they buy that car in the first place?
Katie
Go and price a new transmission, turbo, one of the many radiators, diff, or a myriad of other things that can fail. You’re looking at min $5K per occurrence. A new trans is probably closer to $20K.
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And surge you have ANY statistical data that demonstrates how often these expensive failures happen??? I am 100% sure you do not. You only have the CAN happen. YEs I can die tomorrow but its not likely..............
Spare me the can happen and give me statistical data that shows that my car is going to burst into a ball of flames and blow up shooting turbos out the tailpipe! Please show me this data that indicates this is going to happen!
Spare me the can happen and give me statistical data that shows that my car is going to burst into a ball of flames and blow up shooting turbos out the tailpipe! Please show me this data that indicates this is going to happen!
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Your the one that said all this stuff could fail so it’s in your court to prove how likely they are to fail, not me! I can AFFORD to repair my cars and if I could not I would have brought something else.
I don’t give my money to rip off warranty companies because I know the odds are in my favor that any car will not recover the cost of the warranty, exactly why they sell these rip off things to make lots of money on people using fear of what could happen. If warranties were not money makers you can rest assured they would not be offered.
I don’t give my money to rip off warranty companies because I know the odds are in my favor that any car will not recover the cost of the warranty, exactly why they sell these rip off things to make lots of money on people using fear of what could happen. If warranties were not money makers you can rest assured they would not be offered.
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Your the one that said all this stuff could fail so it’s in your court to prove how likely they are to fail, not me! I like can AFFORD to repair my cars and if I could not I would have brought something else.
I don’t give my money to rip off warranty companies because I know the odds are in my favor that any car will not recover the cost of the warranty, exactly why they sell these rip off things to make lots of money on people using fear of what could happen. If warranties were not money makers you can rest assured they would not be offered.
I don’t give my money to rip off warranty companies because I know the odds are in my favor that any car will not recover the cost of the warranty, exactly why they sell these rip off things to make lots of money on people using fear of what could happen. If warranties were not money makers you can rest assured they would not be offered.
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Not the case here. Anyone keeping these cars past 4 years should get the Mercedes extended warranty. For about $5K it will pay for itself.
Go and price a new transmission, turbo, one of the many radiators, diff, or a myriad of other things that can fail. You’re looking at min $5K per occurrence. A new trans is probably closer to $20K.
Go and price a new transmission, turbo, one of the many radiators, diff, or a myriad of other things that can fail. You’re looking at min $5K per occurrence. A new trans is probably closer to $20K.
She posts the same thing in every warranty thread, and seems to have some emotionally charged vendetta against them and anyone who purchases them, as you can see from the last thread on the topic:
https://mbworld.org/forums/amg-gt/74...-warranty.html
I expected her to have already added her anti-warranty piece when the thread was fresh.
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She posts the same thing in every warranty thread, and seems to have some emotionally charged vendetta against them and anyone who purchases them, as you can see from the last thread on the topic:
https://mbworld.org/forums/amg-gt/74...-warranty.html
I expected her to have already added her anti-warranty piece when the thread was fresh.
https://mbworld.org/forums/amg-gt/74...-warranty.html
I expected her to have already added her anti-warranty piece when the thread was fresh.
In most cases ext warranties are not worth it. In cases like this, with a low volume expensive complicated car, I think it is worth it. For around $5K from MB, just one not even major thing needs to fail and you’ve broken even.
Not to mention the resale value hit — good luck selling a 4+ year old GT without an extended warranty. You’ll be down at least $10K vs the car with the ext warranty. Oh, what’s that? A PROFIT over the cost of the warranty?!
She should price a new transmission!
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Oh. Nothing wrong with advocating for consumers.
again surge thy don’t sell warranties if they weren’t money makers.
Crap every new car is extremely complex but funny thing is statistically they are far more reliable than any cars of the past.
Again I would love for you to show me any factual evidence that my car or anyone else’s car is going to burst into a ball of flames or self distuct anytime within the scope of an extended warranty, oh and take a look at the multiple pages of exclusions these rip offs provide. They basically set the sucker that buys them up to be rejected on any claim they don’t want to pay out.
You pay your 5000 dollars and be a sucker for all I care but again you don’t seem to be using any factual data to make your decision. Saying something could fail is totally not factual data. Of course the people that sell the crap do indeed use factual data and of course make money off suckers that buy them.
again surge thy don’t sell warranties if they weren’t money makers.
Crap every new car is extremely complex but funny thing is statistically they are far more reliable than any cars of the past.
Again I would love for you to show me any factual evidence that my car or anyone else’s car is going to burst into a ball of flames or self distuct anytime within the scope of an extended warranty, oh and take a look at the multiple pages of exclusions these rip offs provide. They basically set the sucker that buys them up to be rejected on any claim they don’t want to pay out.
You pay your 5000 dollars and be a sucker for all I care but again you don’t seem to be using any factual data to make your decision. Saying something could fail is totally not factual data. Of course the people that sell the crap do indeed use factual data and of course make money off suckers that buy them.
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What is a good price to pay for the MB +3 year 100K mike warranty (not 3rd party)?
I got $5800 USD for the GT63 four door. I would expect the GT 2 door to cost less. And this is before negotiating.
I got $5800 USD for the GT63 four door. I would expect the GT 2 door to cost less. And this is before negotiating.
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Costly but pice of mind since I only had 5 days left on the original.
