Range Rover CarMax warranty
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She has a warranty Jymmie. She raised him and fed him and kept him warm for at least 18 years. Best pay plan you ever had.
I don't take it personally at all. He's just the typical Range Rover customer that wanted to do it on the cheap. He went to CarMax to buy his Range Rover and then he's confused by how he ended up with a few problems. But he is the type that will be in the showroom buying his next Range Rover, he will bitch and cry for years and then get another.
If you buy a Land Rover at CarMax and your engine or transmission fails out of warranty, you are going to be stuck with the full bill to fix it. If you buy it at a Land Rover dealership there is a good chance Land Rover will goodwill part, if not all, of the repair.
On an 8 year old car? I sell motors to dealers all the time and they are charging customers to put them in.
It depends. If the customer always has their vehicle serviced at the dealer and also purchased it there, they would probably only pay labor if anything. Its up to the dealer how they use their goodwill fund. I did a good will transmission in an LR3 with 98k miles on it and they didn't even have an extended warranty.
Has anyone on here had the dealer give them a motor for a car that was 8 years old? Anything close?
Does anyone on here have a newer Land Rover that they bought from the dealership, had it serviced at the dealership, and also had their transmission or engine fail while the vehicle is out of warranty?
Cars these days are disposable. I've relearned that fact over the last few days working on a Series. I would not own a new(er) cars these days, Rover or not, without a warranty.
No, that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm just saying that the dealership wants to keep you as a customer, if you have a bad experience with the brand, you probably won't buy another. When an extremely expensive component fails on a good customers car, the dealership has a fund to cover part or all of the cost of the repair which is funded by Land Rover, not the dealership. It is treated as a warranty claim. At Land Rover Glen Cove, we would goodwill engines on cars that have never been to the shop before if the customer mentioned that they might want to trade it in on a newer model.
Personally, I would only buy from a Land Rover dealership or a private seller.
I thought Carmax sold warranties.
Certainly - paying a premium at ANY dealership does have its advantages but some people simply cannot afford to do that. You can't be mad at a man for trying to save some money and have the car he wants. Is he taking a gamble? Of course. Does he deserve ribbing and name calling for his choice? No. I love the hell out of old Rovers but when it gets to the point where you can't expect dependability from a new one because you bought it from Carmax or Joe Shmoe - that's more of a comment about the automobile and not the man who bought it. We can sit here aaaaaaaaaaall day and come up with stories of friends and personal experience wit dependable newer Land Rovers but I assure you that's NOT the norm. We're a biased group - I do understand that but we're hopefully a realistic group as well.
So Land Rover dealerships routinely "goodwill" repairs on used Range Rovers? Even whole engines and transmissions? That's pretty damn cool if they do.
Certainly - paying a premium at ANY dealership does have its advantages but some people simply cannot afford to do that. You can't be mad at a man for trying to save some money and have the car he wants. Is he taking a gamble? Of course. Does he deserve ribbing and name calling for his choice? No. I love the hell out of old Rovers but when it gets to the point where you can't expect dependability from a new one because you bought it from Carmax or Joe Shmoe - that's more of a comment about the automobile and not the man who bought it. We can sit here aaaaaaaaaaall day and come up with stories of friends and personal experience wit dependable newer Land Rovers but I assure you that's NOT the norm. We're a biased group - I do understand that but we're hopefully a realistic group as well.
So Land Rover dealerships routinely "goodwill" repairs on used Range Rovers? Even whole engines and transmissions? That's pretty damn cool if they do.
They definitely do. I've worked at three Land Rover dealerships and they all do. I'm sure Discostew will confirm as well. Its all up to the dealership on how often they use their goodwill fund. Its definitely more common up north, but it was in Richmond that I did the goodwill LR3 transmission with high miles. I imagine most manufacturers have some form of a goodwill fund.
They do, we get shit goodwilled all the time. Having a good relationship with your service writer helps. But the Goodwill till exists to keep customers happy. If you're a good customer, spending money in the service drive on things like tires, oil changes, and scheduled maintenance, or up front on new vehicles, it behooves the manufacturer (and the dealer) to keep themselves in your good graces and coming back to spend more money. The opposite is true if you're an asshole customer.
It's like buying a new printer. I saw a printer at Staples a week ago for $19.99. To me that seems cheap for a new printer. But HP does not make money on the printer. HP makes money on the ink. The ink for the printer was $59 and it took three colors.
It like these new cars. The new BMW requires a computer to check the oil. You can't even check the fucking oil without a computer.
I can't even own a cell phone that does not fuck up, and my cell phone for the most part is a computer. But they expect these cars to run off computers that do not get updated regularly? And you've got to have a computer to check your computer. And they wonder why all these cars are pieces of shit.
CPO offers a warranty until 6 year/100,000 miles. Some (most) dealerships can extend that warranty for 8 years/125,000 miles for an additional fee. That's bumper-to-bumper.
I'm (by nature) a used car kind of guy. Leasing or eating the depreciation right when you drive off the lot isn't an option for me. If I had to guess Toyota and Honda would have the best newer car reliability. That said, I've heard of Acura MDX's (older ones) have pretty major transmission issues after 100K. Guess it's a crap shoot these days. Call me crazy but Consumer Reports has been spot on in regards to used autos from models I've compared. Bullet proof autos are really hard to pin point without empirical evidence. Our old 4runner has beaten the odds and then some. Million dollar read would be very reliable used cars that make (or surpass) 200K for under 2k. May not look cool but I'm the one laughing to the bank.
Thats true. Sometimes its bad timing that makes it hard to get something goodwilled. I just did a LR4 engine with 70k on it.After the engine I don't think there will be much goodwilling going on around here for a while. I know there are other things that control how much money is available for goodwill stuff. I think sometimes people have it coming to them. Like was mentioned already if you always did the work that was recomended and did your part in trying to maintain the car then you should get some help when your just out of warranty.You buy your car from carmax I doubt your going to get help from anyone but carmax.
I don't know, I'm not that happy with the wife's CRV. No major issues to complain about. It's at 70k now and has only been in 2-3 times for minor recalls, a small front cover oil leak and a broken interior light button. So I guess I can't complain. But it just does not seem all that solid to me.
In comparison, other than a recall for the passenger seat occupant sensor on my F-150. I've had 80k trouble free miles. Granted that is combined between 2 trucks. 60k on the 2011 and 20k on the 2014. But I just like the build quality much better and some of the engineering I've seen by tinkering with it has been very impressive in comparison to the Honda.
I'm not saying that you should never buy a used Rover from anyplace but a Rover dealer. Just saying that carmax has a history of peddling crap.I don't know if you guys have figured it out yet but thats a great place to get rid of a problem child. Not such a great place to get your next ride.