Extended Warranty For The Win

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I have the best warranty. Ever. It covers everything, every time. It's called cash in the bank.
Yeah, so do I. I used a tiny bit of it to buy my extended warranty. It's a gamble, no doubt. And I'm not usually one for extended warranties. But it seemed a reasonable risk considering almost all 3/4 ton+ pickups are among the least reliable vehicles in the USA every year.
 

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Suresky in Goshen. I'm on my third vehicle from them.
Passed Suresky often enough, haven't been there though. I've bought 5 vehicles from Warwick jeep, dodge and ram.
 
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Passed Suresky often enough, haven't been there though. I've bought 5 vehicles from Warwick jeep, dodge and ram.
I've tried to give Warwick CJDR money for years, and they always fell just short of goal. It's even more annoying because they're significantly closer to me. :emotions122:
 

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I have the best warranty. Ever. It covers everything, every time. It's called cash in the bank.
Me too. In over 50 years of owning vehicles, total would be more than 100 with a wide assortment of makes and models, and putting millions of miles on them, all bought used except 2, I have never had to do a motor, transmission or anything else major. Many were sold with over 200,000 miles on the clock. I am so far ahead of the game on not having bought new for the warranty or buying extended warranty that I could completely blow up the next 5 and still be way out front. Modern cars are FAR more relaible than the ones for the 60s, 70s and 80s, but the one thing that is true is the electronics are very expensive to fix and they tend to break more often.
 

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The lure of an extended warranty is "I am going to get something for nothing. Somebody else will take care of me." 15%, of warranty buyers win. 85% lose. Not good enough odds for me. Just like at a casino, you hear all about the winners.

What if your furnace breaks and you have all your money in an extended warranty you probably won't use? If you financed your warranty, you're the warranty company's best friend. They got you coming and going.

The only thing that I can think of that is possibly worse than having an expensive vehicle full of low bid, Chinese electronics, is one with a bunch of air lines. You ask anybody who drives an old semi. They are all full of air leaks.

And I don't buy stuff with a bad reputation that is expensive to fix. If you're making money with that vehicle, ok.
 

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The lure of an extended warranty is "I am going to get something for nothing. Somebody else will take care of me." 15%, of warranty buyers win. 85% lose. Not good enough odds for me. Just like at a casino, you hear all about the winners.

And I don't buy stuff with a bad reputation that is expensive to fix. If you're making money with that vehicle, ok.
Your last statement does not really apply to US brand full sized pickups in general. They are consistently ranked at or near the bottom for reliability. Here's one of many links showing that extended warranties on Ram's is a better than average bet:

I'm generally not an extended warranty buyer. But getting one for my Ram made sense to me, given the above.
 
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