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Old 04-16-2006, 10:03 PM   #5 (permalink)
tlwisner
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Originally Posted by RowdyRed94
Warrantees are nothing but scams. Over a lifetime, you'll pay waaaaaaay more for warrantees than you'd have paid for repairs. Besides, what's a "defect in materials or workmanship"? A scam, that's what.

My $.02.
I bought an extended warranty for my 1998 Oldmobile Silhouette Minivan. It cost about $1200. They paid out over $7000 in repairs - the van was a total piece of crap. Blown headgaskets, dead rear air conditioner (which was inside a rear fender requiring lots of tear down, bad gas pump, just every little and big thing crapped out on that lemon over several years. I also got replacement vehicles when the van was in the shop, which was quite often.

I got rid of the POS whan the warranty was getting ready to expire....

I would have been happier if I had gotten no use out of that warranty, and I'll be happy if I never have a claim on the C50's warranty - but for about $350 it was much cheaper than many of the individual that could keel over - computers, injectors, etc.

I did learn that Honda products don't really need a warranty, I hope Suzukis are the same.
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