R56 Avoid all 3rd party Extended warranties!!!

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Dec 2, 2008 | 08:16 PM

#51

Sin MINI

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Most rotors these days are not as robust as they use to be...No longer designed with slide rules, they can be built with less margin than before thinner and therefore cheaper). As a result, there isn't enough meat on that bone to turn.

Dec 3, 2008 | 01:04 PM

#52

MichaelSF

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From: San Francisco

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Originally Posted by Tess

I have the 100k service agreement, and from what I understand, if the service is needed within 1000 miles before or after you hit 100k, it's covered.

This is not so with the warranty, just the service agreement. But, I'll double check.

I got a quote an an extended warranty from AAA, they have several plans average cost about 2500, the best one 3600. Of course, like MINI, they offer 0% financing but still, I really think I'm just going to take my chances that nothing goes wrong with the car, and try to keep a little next egg in case it does.

If I did decide to get the EW, I'd go with AAA's 'approved' 3rd party. I mean if you can't trust AAA, who can ya trust?

I don't know anything about extended maintenance agreements. Not sure, but I thought I read somewhere that MINI has at times offered the opportunity to extend the free maintenance agreement. I don't know what that covers nor how good a deal it is. But maintenance agreements are not the same as extended service or repair agreements.

I have heard from others on NAM and elsewhere on the Net that AAA does in fact offer excellent extended service or repair contracts. In fact, I think AAA's contracts are genuine extended warranties. One of the few out there offering such. Not sure, but I think they even offer "bumper to bumper" coverage rather than that con artist technique of what is included or excluded in the contract.

http://www.autoguardwarranty.net/default.aspx

http://www.autoguardwarranty.net/Gat...2fdefault.aspx

Be careful, that AAA coverage is not offered in all states and there are a lot of fraudulent companies pretending to be AAA. Look at this Site, they even make their logo to look like AAA's.

http://www.aaautowarranty.com/index.asp

Last edited by MichaelSF; Dec 3, 2008 at 01:10 PM.