Considering ELW
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Considering ELW
Considering an ELW. Nothing wrong with the car but I would like to keep it for a while and not worry about a surprise. Any experience with Fidelity? Wondering if they work with MB dealers and Indy's with no drama. Highline seems to have a decent price on there's but any others I should check out? Car has around 37K miles and is a 2019 S63.
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I'll share my rationale, however I have no experience with Fidelity or any other warranty company.
Like you, I really want to keep my S63 for a long time. 2018, 44K miles. You bought yours with under 10K on the clock,and I bought mine with 36K miles.
My car was impeccable maintained before I bought it. That was a huge bonus. Cars don't heal like people; sometimes I think people think otherwise. What I mean by that is that if either of us had bought a poorly assembled or maintained car, we would know it by now. 95% of manufacturing defects will show themselves within the first 20K miles, any the vast majority within the first 5K miles. If "Otto" at the assembly plant had a bad day while assembling one of our cars we'd know it by now.
I wantd to drive my car for 1 year to decide on buying a warranty. After one year of rock solid ownership I feel even better about my pruchase.
However, I do plan to purchase a warranty if available, right before I hit 50K miles, my prefernce would be until 100K miles and 5-6 years. I'll be coming up on some fairly expensive maintenance items at the 50K mark and don't want to take a chance at that point.
But I've called the indy shops I plan to use, one will gladly take the warranty, but my first choice shop doesn't do ANY aftermarket warranty work. I spoke with Trenton and he said they will reimburse me for warranty work that I pay for myself, but it has to be pre authorized.
Just my $.02 cents.
Like you, I really want to keep my S63 for a long time. 2018, 44K miles. You bought yours with under 10K on the clock,and I bought mine with 36K miles.
My car was impeccable maintained before I bought it. That was a huge bonus. Cars don't heal like people; sometimes I think people think otherwise. What I mean by that is that if either of us had bought a poorly assembled or maintained car, we would know it by now. 95% of manufacturing defects will show themselves within the first 20K miles, any the vast majority within the first 5K miles. If "Otto" at the assembly plant had a bad day while assembling one of our cars we'd know it by now.
I wantd to drive my car for 1 year to decide on buying a warranty. After one year of rock solid ownership I feel even better about my pruchase.
However, I do plan to purchase a warranty if available, right before I hit 50K miles, my prefernce would be until 100K miles and 5-6 years. I'll be coming up on some fairly expensive maintenance items at the 50K mark and don't want to take a chance at that point.
But I've called the indy shops I plan to use, one will gladly take the warranty, but my first choice shop doesn't do ANY aftermarket warranty work. I spoke with Trenton and he said they will reimburse me for warranty work that I pay for myself, but it has to be pre authorized.
Just my $.02 cents.
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Considering an ELW. Nothing wrong with the car but I would like to keep it for a while and not worry about a surprise. Any experience with Fidelity? Wondering if they work with MB dealers and Indy's with no drama. Highline seems to have a decent price on there's but any others I should check out? Car has around 37K miles and is a 2019 S63.
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Nothing new, Probably going to just keep the car for a few more years and then trade it in so probably not going to do anything. It has just been so reliable so far.