Audi Ownership - Maintenance cost per mile?

[Taka Mizutani]

Are you kidding me, Brett?

The warranties change all the time. That's why I said what I said.

The gotchas you talk about change all the time. You know, they also do
training all the time, it's not a static thing.

Case in point- Audi dropped free maintenance on CPO a while ago, then phased
out free maintenance on the new cars.

Same thing with BMW- they used to extend the original warranty to 7/100 from
original in-service date, including maintenance- now it's an inclusionary
and exclusionary warranty that is far less comprehensive than the original
warranty and does not extend free maintenance, it's also a shorter term of
just extending 2/24 from the expiration of the original warranty.

There was no deductible a couple years ago on Audi CPO, but I guess there is
now.

That's why you can't do what you envision.

Taka




On Jan 21, 2008 12:10 PM, Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net> wrote:

> The terms are unlikely to change in any substantial way all that
> often- they'd have a nightmare keeping that all straight, doing
> training, etc.
>
> The point is not to parrot their terms, but to provide a public
> service by listing the gotchas in a more human-parse-able way, and
> perhaps educate people on the differences compared to other
> manufacturer CPO plans (for example, Volvo's is something like a 10
> year/100k warranty from original manufacture/purchase date.)  A number
> of people are probably not aware that there is a service deductible- I
> wasn't, until Eric mentioned it.  Granted I did not look at the PDF of
> the terms, but I'm willing to bet AoA does not exactly go out of their
> way to mention it.
>
> Brett
>