Should I buy washing machine warranty ?

Niv

doningtonphil wrote: »

our 6 year old bosch washing machine started getting noisy. Identified bearings on way out. Had local washing machine repairers quote 250.00 for repair.
Domestic & General offer 1 year warranty for 9.99/mth. There terms & conditons DO NOT state that existing faults cannot be covered and they say you can claim the day after you take policy out.

Anyway, took policy out, phoned next day to report fault. referred me to bosch no questions out. Bosch/Siemens engineer arrived next day then came back 2 days later to replace drum.

Still got 11 months warranty on it too

Fair enough, but you are not talking about taking out an insurance on the off chance something goes wrong you are taking out the insurance once the item goes wrong so that you can get it fixed cheaper.

doningtonphil

Niv wrote: »

Fair enough, but you are not talking about taking out an insurance on the off chance something goes wrong you are taking out the insurance once the item goes wrong so that you can get it fixed cheaper.

Yeah, but I am getting the insurance company to pay for the repair and nly taking out the insurance WHEN I NEED IT rather than ON THE OFF CHANCE SOMETHING MIGHT. D&G seem quite willing to go along with it.

In my case, the Bosch bill came to £461.80. I will be paying £120.00 (and have 11 months warranty in case something else goes wrong)

What I am saying is keep your money in your back pocket, then pay for insurance to avoid a hefty bill. Maybe not quite in the spirit of how insurance companies would like it to work but it works all the same.

Of course if nothing goes wrong with your machine then your money stays in your back pocket, which is nice

ormus

all these warranties are a waste of money. very profitable for the companies, but not for the consumer.
ive owned three cheap indesit WMs. all lasted for an average of 7 yrs without any major problems.
my youngest DD still has the last machine in her flat, as we were given a fairly new john lewis WM.

molerat

So far my 10 year old hotpoint has cost me £8 for a set of motor brushes. It has generally done at least 1 wash every day for those 10 years. How much would I have wasted on insurance, plus if someone wanted to charge me £120 it would would be in the skip pretty sharpish.

chrisw

I was always dead against these warraties, but I must admit I've just taken one out.

The motor went on my Bosch washing machine after 2 years and one month, Bosch agreed to replace the motor but I had to pay £90 for the engineers labour. I could probably have got a local engineer but then I would have had to pay for the motor.

My Bosch dishwasher broke every year from new due to a build up of black sludge round the water inlet float - a design fault in my view. It finally leaked water into the main motor at 4 years old and burnt out.

I have replaced it with another Bosch dishwasher, only time will tell if that was foolish or not, but I had the opportunity to extend the warranty to 5 years for £99, and as far as I'm concerned, it's worth it for peace of mind.

They were both top-end Bosch products too.

I could probably have gone down SOGA, but when one of these appliances fails, you just want it working again as soon as possible.

These older machines lasting 20 years doesn't surprise me as my 1st Indesit lasted 15 years despite all the kids nappies, but every one since then has lasted around 5 years despite the fact my usage has probably reduced. I would be surprised if a current mainstream machine was still working in 20 years time.