Vauxhall to end lifetime warranty

smjxm09

Termination of Vauxhall Lifetime Warranty – effective for all orders received after October 31st 2014.

For our Retail customers this means only vehicles ordered before 1st October 2014 and delivered by 31st December 2014 will be eligible for Lifetime Warranty. For our Fleet customers, this has been extended to orders received by 31st of October 2014, regardless of the delivery date. Implementation Details

• No Passenger Cars for Retail Customers registered on or after January 1st 2015 will be eligible for Lifetime Warranty. The only exception will be Passenger Cars ordered on or before October 1st 2014 which, due to long lead times, can only be registered after December 31st 2014.
• Due to the significant content of “build to order” vehicles for Fleet customers, any Fleet Passenger Cars ordered prior to October 31st 2014 will be eligible for Lifetime Warranty upon registration.
• No New Corsa (Corsa E) models, for Retail or Fleet customers, regardless of when they are registered, will be eligible for Lifetime Warranty.

Existing Customers with Lifetime Warranty
This announcement does not affect those new car buyers who currently own vehicles eligible for Lifetime Warranty (subject to them maintaining the vehicles eligibility through the annual reactivation check).

Confirmation of Vauxhall Warranty Coverage
All Vauxhall Passenger Cars will be sold with a three year/60,000 mile (which ever comes sooner) fully transferable warranty. Additionally, in the first year from registration, AA Roadside Assistance (with Home Start and Full European cover) is included.

Captaincodpiece

Someone mentioned it a few days ago.

smjxm09

I did a forum search before posting and found no threads on it. If you can link to it I will remove the thread.

One of main reasons for considering Vauxhall if someone was thinking about keeping a car for years and not passing 100,000 miles was the warranty. Kia have 7 year transferable warranties so are the market leaders.

jaydeeuk1

smjxm09 wrote: »

I did a forum search before posting and found no threads on it. If you can link to it I will remove the thread.

One of main reasons for considering Vauxhall if someone was thinking about keeping a car for years and not passing 100,000 miles was the warranty. Kia have 7 year transferable warranties so are the market leaders.

But then you're stuck with driving a vauxhall for a years. All of which are gash unless you have £35k for an ampera electron.

motorguy

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

But then you're stuck with driving a vauxhall for a years. All of which are gash unless you have £35k for an ampera electron.

Astra is a pretty decent car. As is the Insignia.

Corsa sells well but is old now.

OddballJamie

smjxm09 wrote: »

I did a forum search before posting and found no threads on it. If you can link to it I will remove the thread.

One of main reasons for considering Vauxhall if someone was thinking about keeping a car for years and not passing 100,000 miles was the warranty. Kia have 7 year transferable warranties so are the market leaders.

It wasn't the reason I chose a Vauxhall, but it was the reason I went new over used. Currently over 4 years in and 25,000 on the clock.

Was talking to the staff about this last week, they aren't happy, especially the sales peeps.

diablo676

smjxm09 wrote: »

I did a forum search before posting and found no threads on it. If you can link to it I will remove the thread.

One of main reasons for considering Vauxhall if someone was thinking about keeping a car for years and not passing 100,000 miles was the warranty. Kia have 7 year transferable warranties so are the market leaders.

I bought a Hyundai 4 1/2 years ago so my five year warranty will expire next March. I think Kias used to have a quite limited warranty for the last couple of years.

It wasn't the warranty which made me buy it, more the reliability stats amongst other things.

I reckon Vauxhall have made a mistake in their marketing. Unless their warranty was costing far more in repairs than extra sales.

smjxm09

A 100,000 mile/lifetime warranty was a good selling point for those that keep their cars for years and do under 10,000 miles a year. Those folk doing only around 5,000 miles a year had a 20 year warranty.

This news can only improve Kia, Toyota and Hyundai sales figures where a long warranty is important to a buyer.

heartbreak_star

I adored my Corsa and had fantastically nippy and fun driving from it

Didn't cost me too much in repairs while I ran it either

HBS x

darkmatter101

heartbreak_star wrote: »

I adored my Corsa and had fantastically nippy and fun driving from it

Didn't cost me too much in repairs while I ran it either

HBS x

Evidently you haven't ever driven a Yaris or a Jazz, much superior to the Corsa in pretty much every way. I wouldn't classify the Corsa as particularly nippy, not as much as its rivals anyway

uknick

Each to their own.

I once worked with a lady who, when asked if she could choose any car in the world money no object, said she'd stick with an Astra. Mind you, she did think her 2001 2.0 petrol automatic was "nippy".

But, she was good to her word. When she sold it after 10 years she bought another new Astra.