Where to Buy Extended Warranty - Best Price
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Consumer's Reports weighs in on extended warranties
New-Car Extended Warranty Caution
Tuesday, Mar 04, 2008 - 04:12 PM
BY Consumer Reports
These days more people who are buying a new car are buying an extended warranty. But is it worth the thousand dollars or so?
Consumer Reports surveyed 8,000 of its readers about extended warranties purchased on new 2001 and 2002 vehicles. About two-thirds of them said the extended warranty did not pay off.
The extended warranties cost on average $1,000, but only provided an average benefit of $700. That’s a net loss of $300. Forty-two percent of the people in the survey didn’t use the extended warranty at all, mainly because they didn’t need repairs or because the manufacturers’ standard warranty covered the repair...
Tuesday, Mar 04, 2008 - 04:12 PM
BY Consumer Reports
These days more people who are buying a new car are buying an extended warranty. But is it worth the thousand dollars or so?
Consumer Reports surveyed 8,000 of its readers about extended warranties purchased on new 2001 and 2002 vehicles. About two-thirds of them said the extended warranty did not pay off.
The extended warranties cost on average $1,000, but only provided an average benefit of $700. That’s a net loss of $300. Forty-two percent of the people in the survey didn’t use the extended warranty at all, mainly because they didn’t need repairs or because the manufacturers’ standard warranty covered the repair...
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Re: Where to Buy Extended Warranty - Best Price
But, the TCH is not your average car... with all the specialty systems and components, I am still glad I bought an extended warranty. And, sadly, Toyota quality is not what it used to be.
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The only thing that is preventing me from buying the extended warranty is the fact that it doesn't cover the hybrid system, and I would like to see a comprehensive list of things that it doesn't cover (would it cover an engine part, a fuel pump, etc).
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Also it's easy to figure what is covered with the Platinum Policy. If it isn't specificially on the exclude list it's covered.
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Is the exclude list published somewhere?
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It is and I wouldn't go with anything but a GENUINE TOYOTA Platinum policy. I wanted to post the link but right now it seems broken.
Go here:
http://www.toyotaownersonline.com/pa...greements.html
And I think the link (currently broken) you are looking for is here:
http://www.toyotafinancial.com/ebroc...l_line_VSA.pdf
Here is one and YES the fuel pump is covered:
http://www.toyotafinancial.com/consu...risonChartPage
There are probably other links that enumerate the Genuine Toyota Platinum exclusion list so maybe someone will jump in and post it.
Go here:
http://www.toyotaownersonline.com/pa...greements.html
And I think the link (currently broken) you are looking for is here:
http://www.toyotafinancial.com/ebroc...l_line_VSA.pdf
Here is one and YES the fuel pump is covered:
http://www.toyotafinancial.com/consu...risonChartPage
There are probably other links that enumerate the Genuine Toyota Platinum exclusion list so maybe someone will jump in and post it.
Last edited by schmidtj; Mar 7, 2008 at 05:57 AM.
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I believe I saw yesterday looking through my information the warranty on the Hybrid systems is 96 months or 100,000 miles.
Sorry I just corrected that it's 96 months.
Sorry I just corrected that it's 96 months.
Last edited by coolshock1; Mar 7, 2008 at 06:56 AM. Reason: Corrected time period
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Re: Where to Buy Extended Warranty - Best Price
It is and I wouldn't go with anything but a GENUINE TOYOTA Platinum policy. I wanted to post the link but right now it seems broken.
Go here:
http://www.toyotaownersonline.com/pa...greements.html
And I think the link (currently broken) you are looking for is here:
http://www.toyotafinancial.com/ebroc...l_line_VSA.pdf
Here is one and YES the fuel pump is covered:
http://www.toyotafinancial.com/consu...risonChartPage
There are probably other links that enumerate the Genuine Toyota Platinum exclusion list so maybe someone will jump in and post it.
Go here:
http://www.toyotaownersonline.com/pa...greements.html
And I think the link (currently broken) you are looking for is here:
http://www.toyotafinancial.com/ebroc...l_line_VSA.pdf
Here is one and YES the fuel pump is covered:
http://www.toyotafinancial.com/consu...risonChartPage
There are probably other links that enumerate the Genuine Toyota Platinum exclusion list so maybe someone will jump in and post it.
