Thread: Extended Warranty Insurance

just bought a 3 yr 'comprehensive' warranty for approx $2,400 through carsales - who use Virginia Surety Company Inc - not sure if they are any good, hopefully I wont have to find out.

I also went for the 3 year Redbook.

Did you see the bits on the first couple:

Can use second hand parts
Can use non-genuine parts



That would have me walking away.



Never went with extended warranty, banked the money. Went on a holiday.

You have to check which company actually provides the extended warranty and whether the car company will stand behind it or not. Seems to be a lot of variation in quality.
I was interested to watch a John Cadogan piece while off with the flu in which be praised Subaru, Mazda, Hyundai and Kia for their service to their customers and bagged the other companies, particularly Holden, Ford, Toyota and VW. It certainly didn't fit the way some of those companies advertise themselves. No mention by him of Land Rover, so I don't know what that means.

Here's the wording in the policy I bought:
"If a part of a Covered Component requires replacement the repairer may
replace with a similar or reconditioned part. To the best of their endeavours, repairers will attempt to source and use
genuine parts."

That's good enough for me, at least the car will be going again. But I can imagine that for others this may not be good enough.