IS IT WORTH IT TO GET THE EXTENDED WARRANTY....

IM BUYING A KAW PRARIE 700

3YR ADDITIONAL = 475

5YR ADDITIONA = 575

LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK

THANKS

 

IMO i think it is b/c if practicly ANYTHING goes wrong...guess whos hands its in...not urs ...the dealers.....for FREE. lol and FREE is good lol.......especially if you have no clue whats wrong with it lol. thats just my $.02, hope this helps.

 

oh yea one more thing lol for $575.00 you can get 5yrs of worry freeness lol cause who knos if something goes wrong it could cost you say 300$ one year ,and 200$ another year and 400$ another and theres still 2yrs left on the warrenty and you already spent 900$...so id say get the warrenty.JMO

 

Dealer warranty work isnt free. You typically pay for some labor charges and a deductable.

 

I rarely buy an extended warranty.

1. The cost is outrageous for the value of the machine. I'll bet the extended warranty is more than 10% of your entire purchase price.
2. Generally if something serious breaks, it will do so during the original factory warranty.
3. Damage from abuse will not be covered under an extended warranty. So rolling or jumping and breaking a machine will not be covered. Dealers will look real hard to find abuse so it doesn't have to be covered.
4. Having a five year extended warranty is a long time. Ask your friends how long they own their machines. I'll bet a lot of them replace their machines every 3 to 4 years.

Just my opinion.

 

ive had a 89 warrior from 1995-still, i dunno about your friends, but i dont have the money to keep gettin new quads. ok ok, i just got a new one, but still i had that quad for almost 10 years

 

Extended warranties are nothing more than insurance contracts. Oftentimes they are not with the manufacturer but with a provate, third party provider. It is risk-shifting for a fee, nothing more and perhaps something less. These contracts are very carefully worded so that things you may think are covered are not. Abuse, wear and tear, deductibles, depreciated values for certain compaonents, gaskets, seals, fluids and some labor excepted out; the lists go on and on. And, for what it's worth, dealers make a higher mark-up on the extended warranties than they do on the unit being purchased!

So fat is the deal on the extended warranties that a certain Harley Davidson dealer around here that I and others will no longer deal with required you to purchase an extended warranty in order to be able to buy a new Harley during the times when supllies could not keep pace with demands.

Look, my advice is not always right for all people in all situaitons all the time, but keep in mind that it's an expensive insurance contract. I generally do not beat equipment or mechanized toys that I buy and am big on maintainance, so I shy away from these extended warranties and have saved a bundle in the process. Of course, now that I've gone and put my foot in my mouth here, I guess I'm setting myself up for an expensive component failure just out of warranty. ??!!??