Wanna buy a car warranty

newfunk

Just bought a used car, and been offered a warranty (which i would have to pay for). As the car is French, I really should buy one. Anyone know of any cheap ones?

Al_Mac

How old a car, if under 3, you can probably get one from the manufacturer. Most others are a rip off.

Pink.

Hi newfunk,

I'm going to move your thread over to the motoring board, where hopefully you will get more replies.

Pink

vansboy

https://www.warrantydirect.co.uk they let you pay month by month.

If you REALLY think you should buy one, that is!!

VB

newfunk

vansboy wrote:

https://www.warrantydirect.co.uk they let you pay month by month.

If you REALLY think you should buy one, that is!!

VB

Thats it, im not sure its worth it, The car is 6 years old! Warranty aint likely to include anything that regularly goes wrong with a car! Im more concerned about it, cuz its a French car!!

mr_accountant

newfunk wrote:

Thats it, im not sure its worth it, The car is 6 years old! Warranty aint likely to include anything that regularly goes wrong with a car! Im more concerned about it, cuz its a French car!!

It does not matter whether its French, German, Japanese or from Mars. At this age mileage is nothing condition is everything. There are plenty of good reliable French cars at this age for giveaway money. Look carefully and get a bargain,

Remember just because Japanese cars are perceived as very reliable (rightfully) this does not mean every Japanese car is reliable. So pick carefully. May i recommended you to the following site below, i think it is fantastic and in my view applicable to very used car once a car is out of its manufacturing warranty period.


http://bangernomics.tripod.com/index.html, then go to buying guide, lots of info there.




Personally i don’t think these aftermarket warranties are worth the paper they are written on, so if you buy your car and something breaks down the warranty company’s favorite term will be 'sorry, it wear and tear and not covered by warranty'

angelatgraceland

From what Ive found, these warranties never cover anything which goes wrong! We have had 2 in the past-complete waste of money.

michaels

I got a 4yr warrantywise one (about 500 quid? fo r max cover) for my fiat multipla which was just over 2yrs old but an import and therefore not covered by the manufacturers/dealers warranty. In 24 months I have only had one problem, and they paid up (200 quid) no questions for the replacement of the lambda sensors (emu warning message and poor mpg were only symptoms of problem). I think they start making a deduction for wear and tear after 60k but I am not nearly there yet.

Silent_Bob_3

There was an article in the Sunday Times Drive section about this a few weeks ago and general consensus was to save your money for when things do gone wrong as they will try and get out of almost everything under "wear and tear".