Lambos and Warranties?

[sone]

For a long time I've fancied dipping my toe in the world of Lamborghini but have always ended up staying with Ferrari and Porsche main dealers purely because of the warranties available.
If I were to buy a Gallardo around the 80-90k mark what will be the best dealer warranty that I will be able to hope for. Ferrari and Porsche offer 2 year comprehensive cover and for me with cars of this value it's a must to enable me to enjoy the car. I speak from experience of having a 360 costing me a small fortune a few years ago and after that I promised myself never to have a high value car without full cover.

Thanks in advance

[70proof]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

and read a few of the recent gallardo running costs threads.....

i've had mine 3 months without warranty and so far has cost me <100£ for code read stuff only...

[Sarnie]

sone said:

For a long time I've fancied dipping my toe in the world of Lamborghini but have always ended up staying with Ferrari and Porsche main dealers purely because of the warranties available.
If I were to buy a Gallardo around the 80-90k mark what will be the best dealer warranty that I will be able to hope for. Ferrari and Porsche offer 2 year comprehensive cover and for me with cars of this value it's a must to enable me to enjoy the car. I speak from experience of having a 360 costing me a small fortune a few years ago and after that I promised myself never to have a high value car without full cover.

Thanks in advance

Aftermarket warranty only once the lambo one expires..........mine was with Warrantywise, supplied by Lambobrum.

[993AL]

Sarnie said:

sone said:

For a long time I've fancied dipping my toe in the world of Lamborghini but have always ended up staying with Ferrari and Porsche main dealers purely because of the warranties available.
If I were to buy a Gallardo around the 80-90k mark what will be the best dealer warranty that I will be able to hope for. Ferrari and Porsche offer 2 year comprehensive cover and for me with cars of this value it's a must to enable me to enjoy the car. I speak from experience of having a 360 costing me a small fortune a few years ago and after that I promised myself never to have a high value car without full cover.

Thanks in advance

Aftermarket warranty only once the lambo one expires..........mine was with Warrantywise, supplied by Lambobrum.

The dealer I spoke to yesterday advised that Lambo will be introducing their own (Extended?)warranty this year at £2.5k per year, he couldn't give me any details of cover though.

[sone]

993AL said:

The dealer I spoke to yesterday advised that Lambo will be introducing their own (Extended?)warranty this year at £2.5k per year, he couldn't give me any details of cover though.

From what I'm reading it's a long time coming. Personally I would want a manufacturers warranty, that says to me that they have confidence in their product.

[UH-Matt]

Sold my last Gallardo when the manufacturer warranty ran out. Doesn't matter how solid a car is, I enjoy going back to a dealer and throwing them the keys and knowing it won't cost me lots of money. Warrantywise and others can be a pain for paying out (I have had experience of this).

I really hope Lambo do get their act together and get a manufacturer UK extended warranty sorted, its been talked of for a long time but never happened. Main reason I went for a Ferrari (2 years warranty included when buying from a dealer used).

[TangoGTR]

sone said:

From what I'm reading it's a long time coming. Personally I would want a manufacturers warranty, that says to me that they have confidence in their product.

+1. Lambo is top of my list for next used car, BUT only if it has a decent warranty. I looked in to warranty wise etc, but quotes of £4k+ for 1 years warranty with £10k limit are a joke

Fingers crossed they get something sorted this year

[Sarnie]

Extended Lambo warranty has been talked about for at least four years, but still not materialised, although the four years from new is better than the two years it was when I bought mine....

[sone]

Back down the Ferrari showroom then

[franki68]

It's so frustrating,it sends the wrong signals to owners,a Porsche or Ferrari gets 2 years ,the lambos 1 and if it's a few years old it's not even a lambo one,when I bought mine the warranty was covered by Bentley

They are very solid cars though,the yanks seem to tune them to 1000 bhp by simply adding turbos and even then they are proving very reliable.

Lambo manchesterdo a full health check when it's in for service so hopefully any issues are spotted early.

[sone]

I was talking to an owner of an 04 Gallardo a couple of years ago that was in a local independant not far from where I live and he was telling me of a major engine failure that his car had suffered. He told me that he had just recieved a quote for a replacement engine for 45k plus the vat (plus fitting). This figure on a car worth at the time 60-65k. He was out of warranty and wondering just what to do. The last I heard the car had been trailored back to his home, probably still sitting there now.
These cars could well be strong but I had a big bill on a 360 out of warranty once and I won't let it happen again. I'm not knocking Lambo's and I'd love to own one but if your unlucky and end up with a "bad un", you could be in turd street. I dread to think with this scenario if the car is financed as well.

[andrew]

sone said:

I was talking to an owner of an 04 Gallardo a couple of years ago that was in a local independant not far from where I live and he was telling me of a major engine failure that his car had suffered. He told me that he had just recieved a quote for a replacement engine for 45k plus the vat (plus fitting). This figure on a car worth at the time 60-65k. He was out of warranty and wondering just what to do. The last I heard the car had been trailored back to his home, probably still sitting there now.
These cars could well be strong but I had a big bill on a 360 out of warranty once and I won't let it happen again. I'm not knocking Lambo's and I'd love to own one but if your unlucky and end up with a "bad un", you could be in turd street. I dread to think with this scenario if the car is financed as well.

sadly this can happen to any brand
for example, google 911 ims failure : i've just spent 3/4 the value of my car replacing a 36k engine with perfect history

[UH-Matt]

andrew said:

sone said:

I was talking to an owner of an 04 Gallardo a couple of years ago that was in a local independant not far from where I live and he was telling me of a major engine failure that his car had suffered. He told me that he had just recieved a quote for a replacement engine for 45k plus the vat (plus fitting). This figure on a car worth at the time 60-65k. He was out of warranty and wondering just what to do. The last I heard the car had been trailored back to his home, probably still sitting there now.
These cars could well be strong but I had a big bill on a 360 out of warranty once and I won't let it happen again. I'm not knocking Lambo's and I'd love to own one but if your unlucky and end up with a "bad un", you could be in turd street. I dread to think with this scenario if the car is financed as well.

sadly this can happen to any brand
for example, google 911 ims failure : i've just spent 3/4 the value of my car replacing a 36k engine with perfect history

Yes he is not singling out Lambo, simply stating his case for wanting to make sure he has some manufacturer backing.

I am exactly the same. I could afford an engine failure, but when buying cars of this calibre which are only 4 years old, I expect the manufacturer to be able to continue backing the product.

[Doshy]

Agree that it seems these manufacturers have little confidence in their products. 2 years warranty for a new Porsche but I bet it's 3 or 4 years in the USA, why is that so often the case ?

[993AL]

Doshy said:

Agree that it seems these manufacturers have little confidence in their products. 2 years warranty for a new Porsche but I bet it's 3 or 4 years in the USA, why is that so often the case ?

Porsche have a 3 year manufacturers warranty in UK, followed by a choice of 12/24 month Extended warranty.

[Doshy]

993AL said:

Doshy said:

Agree that it seems these manufacturers have little confidence in their products. 2 years warranty for a new Porsche but I bet it's 3 or 4 years in the USA, why is that so often the case ?

Porsche have a 3 year manufacturers warranty in UK, followed by a choice of 12/24 month Extended warranty.

Is that recent then? I'm sure it used to be 2 here and 3 in the US. It has been over 5 years since I bought one....

[TangoGTR]

andrew said:

sadly this can happen to any brand
for example, google 911 ims failure : i've just spent 3/4 the value of my car replacing a 36k engine with perfect history

Agree, but the difference is with an extended Porsche warranty this should be covered in full, same for Ferrari, but unfortunately not for Lamborghini.

[sa_20v]

sone said:

I was talking to an owner of an 04 Gallardo a couple of years ago that was in a local independant not far from where I live and he was telling me of a major engine failure that his car had suffered. He told me that he had just recieved a quote for a replacement engine for 45k plus the vat (plus fitting). This figure on a car worth at the time 60-65k. He was out of warranty and wondering just what to do. The last I heard the car had been trailored back to his home, probably still sitting there now.
These cars could well be strong but I had a big bill on a 360 out of warranty once and I won't let it happen again. I'm not knocking Lambo's and I'd love to own one but if your unlucky and end up with a "bad un", you could be in turd street. I dread to think with this scenario if the car is financed as well.

Heard of £25k for the Gallardo engine but £45k? Do you know what the damage was?

[993AL]

Doshy said:

993AL said:

Doshy said:

Agree that it seems these manufacturers have little confidence in their products. 2 years warranty for a new Porsche but I bet it's 3 or 4 years in the USA, why is that so often the case ?

Porsche have a 3 year manufacturers warranty in UK, followed by a choice of 12/24 month Extended warranty.

Is that recent then? I'm sure it used to be 2 here and 3 in the US. It has been over 5 years since I bought one....

They increased from 2 to 3 years in May 2010

[TangoGTR]

sa_20v said:

Heard of £25k for the Gallardo engine but £45k? Do you know what the damage was?

Well this GT3 RS had a new engine under warranty, that had a final bill of £52K ! :- http://www.nickwhalesportscarsdirect.co.uk/2006-56...

Quoted from the advert itself

"New Engine

Although not an officially recognised fault, it would appear from opinion within the GT3 community, that a small batch of crank case seals on these engines leaked owing to a manufacturing casting fault – which only rears its ugly head after quite some mileage has been covered. The normal 911 achilles heel of the rear main oil seal was not a fix in this case. In fact this car had the latter fitted three times to try and cure it but to no avail.

Hence, it was fitted with a new engine at 14,132 miles. The Porsche Warranty Invoice for this with both the old and new engine numbers are included in the service history file.

Although the invoice doesn’t state the value, the 2nd owner tells me it cost £52,000."




Yes modern cars are more reliable, but at the same time with ever increasing complexity of engines, gearboxes, electrics etc, when something does go wrong, it's big money. Personally I wouldn't touch any high performance car over £60K without a decent warranty..... unless you're a heavy gambler

Edited by TangoGTR on Wednesday 22 February 12:20