extended warranty
I can’t say enough about having an extended warranty. I’m so glad I have it. When I took my car for inspection the other day, they told me that my car failed because one of the dashboard switches is on the fritz and needs to be replaced. Cost for parts and labor? Over two hundred dollars. This means I’d have to come up with the money to get it done by the end of the month when my 2008 inspection sticker expires. I told the inspector I’d pick my car up that evening and get it fixed at the dealer’s. I suspected that my warranty would cover it, so I called Honda Care and they said that the repair is covered under my extended warranty. Sure, I have to go to the dealership, again. But it’s definitely worth over two hundred dollars for me to go there before bringing my car back to the inspector to pass inspection. Yay! Go warranty! I’ll be done with this foolishness by the weekend, just in time to miss the last-days-of-the-month rush at the inspector’s shop.
How much did you pay for your extended warranty?
Now you know I don’t remember. LOL! I actually have more than one warranty. One of which is the factory warranty that I inherited with the car and was included with the price. Another is for stuff that’s not included in the first, and although I did pay for it, I don’t remember how much.
Comment by SavingDiva — December 18, 2008 @ 1:23 pm
I declined to purchase that on my car. I wonder if it is worth the price you paid.
I got the extra coverage because I bought the car right after two cousins had bad issues. One had just bought a truck. His engine blew up. He went through hell and high water trying to get someone to pay for the damage. My other cousin was stuck with a car note when someone crashed into the back of his legally parked car at night, totaling it. Things go wrong. The factory warranty came along with the car, but I purchased the other coverage because I didn’t want to have a problem like my first cousin had.
It’s worth it to me, because I never have to pay when something is wrong with my car. I’ve needed three parts since I bought the car, and I haven’t had to pay for any of them, for their diagnostics, or their labor. If I didn’t have the warranty, saving and paying off debt would have been interrupted, and car trouble is part of what made me run my debt up so high (and deplete every emergency fund I tried before 2006).
Comment by S23 — December 18, 2008 @ 3:57 pm