How much is a warranty?

[pikey]

Just wondering how much a warranty is these days?

Back in 2000 a 2 year all inclusive warranty on a '98 4.5 cost me £500. These days a 1 year warranty on my '06 Cayman is £895 (or *ANY* Porsche, strangely)..

Ben

[RUSSELLM]

Well... You're not going to be buying a manufacturers warranty, as they've took their ball home to Russia.

The other option is a "third party/we are going to get out of paying, haven't you read the 800 pages of small print/oh you've been using the car on the road/not worth the paper it's written on warranty"..... I'm not sure how much they are.

A fair few of us have the AA one, I think it's £65 a year, £475 max claim, five claims a year.

[pikey]

£475 max claim? Ouch!

[pcowen]

Your not thinking of returning to cerbie ownership then?

Seems like you had a great time on Megahoon, fantastic images, any chance of some image when we update the Eurohoon.com site?

pcowen

[RUSSELLM]

Can't grumble for £65.

Pays for half a clutch etc...

[FUBAR]

RUSSELLM said:

Can't grumble for £65.

Pays for half a clutch etc...

Or all of a slave seals/cylinder

Oh, and also, as luck would have it, a starter motor. And probably lots of other stuff. Ive had my whack out of the AA warranty. Good job too as my car is no longer eligible from next year

[BLUETHUNDER]

FUBAR said:

RUSSELLM said:

Can't grumble for £65.

Pays for half a clutch etc...

Or all of a slave seals/cylinder

Oh, and also, as luck would have it, a starter motor. And probably lots of other stuff. Ive had my whack out of the AA warranty. Good job too as my car is no longer eligible from next year

How do you go about getting an AA warranty? And what does it cover you on?And why is your car not eligible from next year?

[RUSSELLM]

Covers cars up to ten years old, providing you've had it serviced within 12 months.

Covers everything, providing they have to come & recover you.

So if your wiper motor isn't working, don't call them if it's not raining

[BLUETHUNDER]

RUSSELLM said:

Covers cars up to ten years old, providing you've had it serviced within 12 months.

Covers everything, providing they have to come & recover you.

So if your wiper motor isn't working, don't call them if it's not raining

Counts me out then.

[RUSSELLM]

p.s. Buy their breakdown cover, and you can buy it as an "add on"

[FUBAR]

I think you can only get it as an add on to the breakdown cover

[pikey]

pcowen said:

Your not thinking of returning to cerbie ownership then?

Not for the moment, the Cayman gave itself a new lease of life by moving back into my "woo-hoo, this is FANBLOODYTASTIC" book on the MegaHoon

Noting how much the Porsche warranty is (on a 2 year old car? ) I wondered what the state of things were when I last had a benchmark (2000). Did you know the Porsche warranty is the same price if you Boxster, 997, Cayenne or CGT???

pcowen said:

Seems like you had a great time on Megahoon, fantastic images, any chance of some image when we update the Eurohoon.com site?

Sure And for the others [url]Link to megahoon pics|http://www.pikeynet.com/07/08/31/index.html[/pic]

[pikey]

RUSSELLM said:

p.s. Buy their breakdown cover, and you can buy it as an "add on"

That's a nice little product - like it

[Gaffer]

Come on Ben, you know you want a Cerb again

Magic opening doors await

Claire

[jeremyc]

Gaffer said:

Come on Ben, you know you want a Cerb again

Magic opening doors await

Claire

Is my old one still being looked after well Claire?

[Gaffer]

jeremyc said:

Gaffer said:

Come on Ben, you know you want a Cerb again

Magic opening doors await

Claire

Is my old one still being looked after well Claire?

Hey yes it is. Looking really well at the moment. I drove it to Hethel this weekend (with Ian asleep in the passenger seat) for the Lotus birthday event and it got more looks / photos than the cars on display in the main car park

Its got Ohlins on the back now as well although I wish he would stop playing wiht the cerb and play with my chim for a bit *sulks*

Claire