Extended Warranty?? - Follow up

[Grant Lenahan]

Glad to help.

Two points jump out at me:

1."I'm confident in the car,"

--> Since insurance is abotu averages, that point is key. Its YOUR car. 
YOU know how its been treated.  great point.

2. "should i take it to the dealer?"

--> Hell No! Unless you have a very unusual dealer, find thyself a good, 
well equipped, indie and mate for life.
Nearly all dealers are very expensive, but worse, work on the flat rate 
plan which pays techs to cut corners. And they do.
Inspections, uh, yep. Check.

Oh, and get thyself a set of tools too :-)

Unless you really enjoy working on cars, you will need an indie for the 
bigger stuff- Timing Belts, CVs (they will go), control arms.

But you can certainly do the fluid changes if you want. Adn thsoe 
inspections that i find the dealer never actually performs.
You may not wish to. You may not have the time. But you should at least 
consider it.

Grant



  On 7/9/2010 8:15 AM, Eliot Sennett wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to my post, and thanks for
> providing such thorough and useful feedback. Based on that feedback and some
> additional conversations, I've decided to self-insure. I'm confident in the
> car, and am going to take the risk that over the next four years it'll cost
> me less than $5,400. Now all I have to do is determine whether to have the
> dealer perform all the x5,000 mile checks or just go to a qualified Audi
> mechanic to do the important stuff - which seems to be oil/fluid changes and
> a lot of inspections - presumably for less than an average of $700 per
> visit.
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> Thanks again. This is a great group.
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> Eliot
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