Extended Warranty?? - Follow up

[Louis-Alain Richard]

About extended warranties : what is covered, generally ? I mean, I know wear
stuff is not (t-belt, brakes, exhaust, clutch, etc.) but would a water pump,
a control arm or those CV be covered ?

Louis-Alain

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] De
> la part de Grant Lenahan
> Envoyé : 9 juillet 2010 9:06
> À : Eliot Sennett
> Cc : quattro at audifans.com
> Objet : Re: Extended Warranty?? - Follow up
> 
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks again. This is a great group.
> >
> >
> >
> > Eliot
> >
> >
> >
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