salsa-king

Car goes in for it's 6yr service tomorrow at Subaru Sheffield (Europa)

My current Subaru warranty runs out at the end of Jan 2015...... last year they rang me asking if i wanted to extend it for another year... interest free monthly payments of about £62 a month.

Now they wrote to me again...... can you extend subaru warranty another year?????????



What to do????

Shaun

It depends how risk adverse you are.

I'm assuming you haven't had it remapped by a 3rd party - if not, on that engine I'd extend the warranty on that year, if you're planning on keeping it for a few more years.

jazzyjembreaze

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I know you have done a few cosmetic changes , if you have lifted the bonnet & changed anything other than using Pro -R your warranty is void ... Throw the letter in the. Bin & spend the £744 on **** ( car that is

AWG

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I remember this question the other year dude!

Is this the family car or you driving something else to absorb the mileage?

salsa-king

car does about 3k miles a year.. if that.



Will my Hella horns void warranty?

other than that it's just the ProR air filter in the engine bay... oh.. and the Perrin sock around the brake fluid reserve, also the Perrin radiator shroud.

do they count?

Steve777

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Get it forged, a big blower and a remap and lose those CATS !

**** the warranty

salsa-king

I'll find out first how much they want for extending it. Last year was quite good.

lordharding

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My different opinion

Same as last year

DO IT

It saved me £10000

If in any doubt
Check out the 2.5 engine threads

Tidgy

phil you dont do enough miles a year to worry about a warrenty, when was your last oil change? 3 years and 3000 miles ago? hahaha

just out of interest have you ever actualy used the warrenty?

the shreksta

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dont bother,if the ****e 2.5 lets go they will only replace it with another ****e one so your not really gaining anything

spend the money on some nice mods or put it towards the ever-looming forged rebuild

thenewgalaxy

From what you've said before Phil you don't drive the car very hard, I think it's wasted money.

Put that money to one side so that in the unlikely event that it goes pop you can forge it.

salsa-king

Burrels of Doncaster swapped my head unit the other year when that started acting up.



How much is a new alternator .. now the cars' 6yrs old.. anything could go wrong

thenewgalaxy

About £70 last time I looked on eBay.

salsa-king

add £300
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Blue-Print...item20f040697c

Shaun

It's not the alternator I'd be worrying about!

My Scoob is 10yrs old next year, and the only thing that has failed on it has been a rear droplink. That's no word of a lie. OK it's only got just over 19k miles on it, but that must be in the region of yours.

salsa-king

Is it a 2.5 shaun

thenewgalaxy

No, it's a JDM twinscroll

Shaun

Sorry... I said what I said to provide context of all the other bits on the Scoob. If you take the engine out of the equation (in respect of the 2.5), the rest of the car parts/bits are very reliable imo.

salsa-king

so that's the elephant in the room then

ALi-B

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Last November I had the dreaded warranty renewal form for our BMW.

Now with the cost of this, added together with other bits and bobs that were needed...cosmetic (car park damage ), alloy refurb (potholes ), tyres, satnav update, service, MOT, and a few other bits and bobs.

The total costs added together, accompanied with the trade-in value was almost enough for me to buy another newer, better spec BMW which would need £0 spent on it as its warrantied and I'd bartered in a current satnav version into the deal. Winner!

salsa-king

Hi Ali-B
Merry Christmas

so what was the cost?

and I take it you bought a new car?

ALi-B

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Merry Christmas bud

No, I bought another second hand car from a main dealer, same as what I had, but better spec and engine.

Off the top of my head, I think the warranty was about £800, needed about £300 on bodywork (bumpers), Sat nav update (£150ish if done legit, I know a dodgy one is cheaper ), four wheels refurb'd (£200) MOT (£40), two tyres (£300 ),

So that left me with £1800 that needed to be spent on the old car. Trade-in was valued as-is at £15K, replacement car was £17.5K, which I managed to barter down to £17.2 inlcuding satnav update. So that left me with a shortfall of £400 to add to get a better car.

Probably doesn't make much sense, but to me it did as I had a car with a expired warranty with a over a grand that needed spending on top of it. My logic was the money would be better spent on another car.

Shaun

Are BMW's that unreliable then?

Those figures don't make much sense.... they gave you £15k against a car you got for £17.2 which was the same car, but better spec and engine?

I know dealers are normally on drugs when they're taking your money, but they don't normally toke on the pipe when they're handing it out in part ex.

You didn't take this on finance did you?

ALi-B

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Yep that pretty much it. No finance.

The figures are slightly off as I forgot to include the road tax and extension of the servicing package, both of which were also due to expire. (replacement car come included with tax and servicing). They also delivered it, saving me a 160 mile round trip.

Miele don't make cars, so In my experience All cars are unreliable to varying degrees. I'm lazy so I like the idea of a insurance policy on the cars that I have no interest in maintaining myself, preferably manufacturer backed.

In two years of ownership on a three year old car, I've had to make claims on the last car due to flickering rear LED lights (foot-well control module IIRC), LED lights on the door apertures not working, Faulty central locking motor on a rear door, rattly parcel shelf and a sticky sunroof that sometimes wouldn't close.

Current one had to go in for a faulty bypass valve which controls the air distribution between the two turbos, a leaky A/C condenser, and a dodgy NSF lower ball joint. There is a vibration from the bent alloys, but that's not really warranty I don't think, as its physical damage...it was something I found and mentioned upon buying the car that should have been fixed upon purchase and delivery, so they are having to fix that too.

But I still have a warranty and in addition I have adaptive suspension (finally - can't recommend this enough), two turbos instead of one, DAB, 2014 NAV, 11 speaker, comfort front seats (better than M-sport), electrically adjusted and heated rear seats, heated steering wheel, electric tailgate.

I'm not saying this will work out for everyone, but what I will say is check the value of the current car (webuyanycar isn't far off for a bottom book figure these days), and have a look about at the dealers to see what there is. Do the sums, if it seems reasonable, then take a punt. It all revolves around what is available out there and how much it'll cost to keep the current car.

Obviously if there is any attachment to the current car this idea all goes out the window.

Next year I'm tempted to go and have a brand new car on rolling finance and then keep swapping it with a new one every other year. As the cost to finance a new car vs. depreciation and trade in/warranty costs on a used car is getting pretty close these days. That's a big thing for me - I've never bought a brand new car in the UK

Tidgy

you pick the most expensive one on there or summit, i found one for £45 lol

not sure i'd go that cheap though

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUBARU-IMP...item3f3b366469