When has an extra cost extended warranty actually worked out for you?
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For me it was when I last bought a new car like 12 years ago when Chrysler was still doing lifetime extended warranties. It was like an extra 4k and a couple people said I was foolish for it, "just learn to fix it yourself blah blah blah".
In the 12 years since, I've had an estimated $15k worth of work on it, to include a full transmission rebuild at a whopping out of pocket cost of just a couple hundred bucks (it's like a $50 deductible each time or something).
I've gotten my money's worth many times over IMO, and it even saved my ass during a long road trip once.
Ofc it was actually good, so Chrysler stopped doing new ones lmao
My mom bought a Jeep. It paid out over what the car was worth in warranty repairs. After the warranty was up the car became mostly reliable for the next 5-6 years.
I think the real pro tip is just never buy a Jeep.
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For me it was when I last bought a new car like 12 years ago when Chrysler was still doing lifetime extended warranties. It was like an extra 4k and a couple people said I was foolish for it, "just learn to fix it yourself blah blah blah".
In the 12 years since, I've had an estimated $15k worth of work on it, to include a full transmission rebuild at a whopping out of pocket cost of just a couple hundred bucks (it's like a $50 deductible each time or something).
I've gotten my money's worth many times over IMO, and it even saved my ass during a long road trip once.
Ofc it was actually good, so Chrysler stopped doing new ones lmao
I had one of the earlier model iPod Touches, maybe 2nd Gen? It was the first one to include Bluetooth (if memory serves, and it may not, I vaguely remember at launch Bluetooth that was disabled and I had to jailbreak it to use it, pretty sure Apple eventually enabled Bluetooth with a software update)
Around that time I'd also gotten my first job and had purchased a new laptop for myself, and sprung a little extra to get one with Bluetooth.
I saw the future, I was sick of wires and dongles, I got a Bluetooth mouse, a pair of Bluetooth over the ear headphones, and for my iPod I went to Best buy and got a pair of rocket fish "earbuds" (it doesn't feel right calling them earbuds, since they were connected with a rigid band around the back of your head, but that's what they were calling them) and sprung an extra couple bucks for the warranty because why not.
Those earbuds were a piece of crap. They worked fine, but they weren't rugged enough to deal with everyday life. Getting knocked off a coffee table onto a carpeted floor was enough to break them.
So for a couple months it became almost a weekly ritual for me to go back to best buy to exchange them, until they just stopped stocking them and gave me my money back.
In those days, there weren't many options for smaller profile Bluetooth headphone, you could get bulky over the ear models that were never really my thing, or you could get a mono earpiece. I'm pretty sure that those were literally the only model I could find at any reasonable price point.
It actually kind of soured me on Bluetooth headphones until fairly recently, and honestly if my phone still had a jack I'd probably still be using the Shure 215 earbuds I bought after that.
(Also, if you're in the market for wired earbuds, I'm no audiophile, but I do not regret getting the shures one bit, they definitely sounded better than the Skullcandy buds I upgraded from back then, and they are damn-near indestructible, there may very well be better, cheaper, and more rugged earbuds out there, but for the $100 or so I spent over a decade ago, mine have gone through the laundry a couple times and had just about every other kind of abuse you could imagine inflicted upon them and they're no worse for wear, and the wire is replaceable if that ever gets fucked up but I'm still on the original)
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My mom bought a Jeep. It paid out over what the car was worth in warranty repairs. After the warranty was up the car became mostly reliable for the next 5-6 years.
I think the real pro tip is just never buy a Jeep.
Don’t buy anything in the Chrysler family of brands, or get the extended warranty if you do
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For me it was when I last bought a new car like 12 years ago when Chrysler was still doing lifetime extended warranties. It was like an extra 4k and a couple people said I was foolish for it, "just learn to fix it yourself blah blah blah".
In the 12 years since, I've had an estimated $15k worth of work on it, to include a full transmission rebuild at a whopping out of pocket cost of just a couple hundred bucks (it's like a $50 deductible each time or something).
I've gotten my money's worth many times over IMO, and it even saved my ass during a long road trip once.
Ofc it was actually good, so Chrysler stopped doing new ones lmao
The real issue was buying a Chrysler.
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When RadioShack was still a thing. I was in a band that used in ear monitors. I bought a pair of decent earbuds there for $25 with a $5 extra warranty, which states I'd have to pay $5 for a replacement. Between jumping on stage, forgetting they were plugged in or just plain blowing them out, I went thru 6 pairs jn 3 years, each time paying 10$ (5 for the replacement and 5 for the warranty)
Wow, you must’ve been an early adopter for IEMs. There wasn’t a lot of crossover in the timelines between RadioShack and IEMs. IEMs were just starting to get economical enough (and durable enough) for live shows when RadioShack was going through their big “let’s pivot hard into selling cellphone contracts”. And that was what put the company into a death spiral. You must’ve gotten on the trend pretty early.
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For me it was when I last bought a new car like 12 years ago when Chrysler was still doing lifetime extended warranties. It was like an extra 4k and a couple people said I was foolish for it, "just learn to fix it yourself blah blah blah".
In the 12 years since, I've had an estimated $15k worth of work on it, to include a full transmission rebuild at a whopping out of pocket cost of just a couple hundred bucks (it's like a $50 deductible each time or something).
I've gotten my money's worth many times over IMO, and it even saved my ass during a long road trip once.
Ofc it was actually good, so Chrysler stopped doing new ones lmao
I'm 42 years old and I've never used a warranty in my entire life
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For me it was when I last bought a new car like 12 years ago when Chrysler was still doing lifetime extended warranties. It was like an extra 4k and a couple people said I was foolish for it, "just learn to fix it yourself blah blah blah".
In the 12 years since, I've had an estimated $15k worth of work on it, to include a full transmission rebuild at a whopping out of pocket cost of just a couple hundred bucks (it's like a $50 deductible each time or something).
I've gotten my money's worth many times over IMO, and it even saved my ass during a long road trip once.
Ofc it was actually good, so Chrysler stopped doing new ones lmao
Never. I sold these things long ago and learned quickly back then they are just scams.
You being lucky is an edge case.
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For me it was when I last bought a new car like 12 years ago when Chrysler was still doing lifetime extended warranties. It was like an extra 4k and a couple people said I was foolish for it, "just learn to fix it yourself blah blah blah".
In the 12 years since, I've had an estimated $15k worth of work on it, to include a full transmission rebuild at a whopping out of pocket cost of just a couple hundred bucks (it's like a $50 deductible each time or something).
I've gotten my money's worth many times over IMO, and it even saved my ass during a long road trip once.
Ofc it was actually good, so Chrysler stopped doing new ones lmao
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Not me, but my mom bought a Sentra SER lightly used, and got the $1500 dealer special warranty. The warranty had all kinds of stipulations like she had to have the maintenance done at that dealer, with nissan parts, etc, all ways to weasel out of it. Also had to have the service records in full.
Year 1: manual transmission stopped going into reverse, replaced
Year 2: engine failure, replaced
Year 3: manual transmission started popping out of all gears, replaced.
Year 4: bought a Mazda
Each time they tried to deliver the bad news that she'd have to pay $4500 or whatever, but she kept meticulous records, serviced it exactly on time at the original dealer, and insisted on nissan parts so there was nothing they could say. They even tried to say maybe she didn't know how to drive manual, but she'd been driving exclusively manuals for decades, and you guessed it, she had all the documentation to prove it.
That $1500 warranty probably cost the dealer at least $10k
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I know a lady who bought a jeep with one of those forever warranties. She's had everything but the frame replaced at some point and refuses to let the dealership buy her out with a new car.
Theseus's jeep
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Wow, you must’ve been an early adopter for IEMs. There wasn’t a lot of crossover in the timelines between RadioShack and IEMs. IEMs were just starting to get economical enough (and durable enough) for live shows when RadioShack was going through their big “let’s pivot hard into selling cellphone contracts”. And that was what put the company into a death spiral. You must’ve gotten on the trend pretty early.
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