buying a Mercury Platinum Warranty
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buying a Mercury Platinum Warranty
I will be buying a Mercury warranty for my 03 next week. I still have 5-6 months of factory warranty, but I'm told Mercury will stop selling their product for AMG cars soon.
Anyone else out there have/use the Mercury on their beast? I've decided to keep my car for a few more years and I need the peace of mind...kids entering private school so no new cars for me for a while.
Anyone else out there have/use the Mercury on their beast? I've decided to keep my car for a few more years and I need the peace of mind...kids entering private school so no new cars for me for a while.
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I'm in exactly the same place. I have an 03 E55 with 22K and my warranty runs out in May. Auto club just sent me info on Mercury warranty and have followed up several times. They said nothing about not covering AMG's. but who knows. My research indicates everyone is very pleased with Mercury warranty, plus I am not the original owner so I cannot buy MB warranty. Only hitch is that you must drive car 1,000 miles and (I believe) wait one month before warranty kicks in. Let me know if you hear anything on AMG issue.
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After doing some searching and bargain shopping, I end up getting the Mercury Ins through http://www.autowarrantybroker.com/
They gave me the best deal and price.
Platinum: 5 more years or 100K miles
$0 deductible
Navigation system added
Basically bumper to bumper
No cap limit to warranty job
It is about $4500 with $500 gift certificate and vacation package free.
They also offer 0% financing.
The catch is that they can’t sell insurance to CA residents unless they have an insurance license. Therefore you may need to use an outside state address first which you could and do not need to transfer to your current CA address later on. Since I have properties elsewhere that was not a problem.
From what I heard this insurance is pretty good and was also being offer by other Mercedes dealer and they told me it was better than the factory extended warranty. The dealer lowest price for the Merc Ins was $5250 with $100 deductible. The dealer also told me that beginning the new year, Mercury will stop filing new account for the 2003 E55, but when I talked to the AutoWarrantybroker they did not think so. I went ahead and purchase the insurance anyway with a couple of months overlap.
Next week, I will ask my SA about this insurance and if he recommends it. I have 30 days to refund it.
They gave me the best deal and price.
Platinum: 5 more years or 100K miles
$0 deductible
Navigation system added
Basically bumper to bumper
No cap limit to warranty job
It is about $4500 with $500 gift certificate and vacation package free.
They also offer 0% financing.
The catch is that they can’t sell insurance to CA residents unless they have an insurance license. Therefore you may need to use an outside state address first which you could and do not need to transfer to your current CA address later on. Since I have properties elsewhere that was not a problem.
From what I heard this insurance is pretty good and was also being offer by other Mercedes dealer and they told me it was better than the factory extended warranty. The dealer lowest price for the Merc Ins was $5250 with $100 deductible. The dealer also told me that beginning the new year, Mercury will stop filing new account for the 2003 E55, but when I talked to the AutoWarrantybroker they did not think so. I went ahead and purchase the insurance anyway with a couple of months overlap.
Next week, I will ask my SA about this insurance and if he recommends it. I have 30 days to refund it.
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Trying to decide between 5 years/75k additional (3230.00) or 6 years/100k additional (5240.00). It's a lot of dough, but I have a lot of options on the car and don't want to be sorry.
FYI, I checked autowarrantybroker.com online and the website would not sell me a warranty for an E55...?????
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