Warranty?

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Blockhead

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I’m still on the hunt for a solid LR4. Besides lower miles and a solid service history plus a PPI, I’m thinking a powertrain warranty just in case an engine / transmission issue pops up. Maybe only 25-50k miles. Maybe I’m overly concerned about the timing chain thing although I’m sticking with a 2013.

what warranty companies are good? Which aren’t good?
 
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I think you'll need the original signature of Jesus H. Christ, in his own blood, on any aftermarket warranty claim to actually get a replacement engine.
 
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discostew

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so here's a good example of how great this Carmax warranty is. I lied, we do accept it, but I didn't lie when I said it was shit
I have a 17 Jag XE. 5.0. coolant leaking from a lot of places. water pump, block outlet and the rear cylinder head outlet
$1820 roughly. They came out and looked at it Friday, today they authorized just the water pump. Why bother? It's leaking from all those other places bad. Coolant everywhere. I guess they figure that if I do the pump then I'm liable when the engine overheats and becomes a boat anchor.
 
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What a joke.....Jeep advertises their Gladiator as "A TRUCK TO DO IT ALL" right on their website and they sell it with 33" mud terrain tires and then they void the warranty because it went through the mud. Jeep's own commercials show it doing donuts in the mud.

Here's the voided-warranty guy's thread about this issue with a video of a run through a typical mud hole.

www.jeepgladiatorforum.com

VOIDED Factory Warranty after taking it through mud

7/24/2020 - Purchased 2020 Jeep Gladiator Rubicon with upgraded Mud Tires I didn't even want. 7/26 - Hit the trail. Plowed it through the mud a bunch of times. It was covered in mud for sure and killed the alternator. Had it towed to the closest Jeep dealership. Russell Westbrook of Van Nuys...
www.jeepgladiatorforum.com www.jeepgladiatorforum.com

Jeep is a fucking joke.
 
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DiscoHasBeen

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Blue said:
What a joke.....Jeep advertises their Gladiator as "A TRUCK TO DO IT ALL" right on their website and they sell it with 33" mud terrain tires and then they void the warranty because it went through the mud. Jeep's own commercials show it doing donuts in the mud.

Here's the voided-warranty guy's thread about this issue with a video of a run through a typical mud hole.

www.jeepgladiatorforum.com

VOIDED Factory Warranty after taking it through mud

7/24/2020 - Purchased 2020 Jeep Gladiator Rubicon with upgraded Mud Tires I didn't even want. 7/26 - Hit the trail. Plowed it through the mud a bunch of times. It was covered in mud for sure and killed the alternator. Had it towed to the closest Jeep dealership. Russell Westbrook of Van Nuys...
www.jeepgladiatorforum.com www.jeepgladiatorforum.com

Jeep is a fucking joke.
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Yeah that's really not a good look for them. Read through the thread and some make a reasonable argument why FCA was in the right. But most aren't going to read past the headline. Should have repaired it with maybe a "don't do that again". At worst refused that repair, but void the warranty, fuck.
 
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When I was purchasing my G4 (way back in 2009), the dealership was offering a warranty. I was going to purchase just for the potential headgasket issues. But after reading the small print, the headgasket replacement was EXEMPT from the warranty. They're not stupid and will exclude commonly know (and expensive) issues.
 
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When I bought my 2004 Disco back in 2008, it came with an aftermarket extended warranty that I didn't want but the used car dealership wouldn't remove the warranty and lower their price. Head gaskets had supposedly been done just before I picked it up with 49,800 miles on the odometer. When it needed another head gasket job 30,000 miles later, I didn't even bother contacting the extended warranty company even though I was well within the 100,000 mile warranty period. It's just not worth the frustration to deal with these shit warranty companies.

Now a brand new car with the manufacturer's warranty being denied and then voided? I'd go fucking ballistic on them.
 
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discostew

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I don't think any of the extended warranties are all that great. None of them pay for those plastic outlet pipes. Thing is usually the customer just pays for the outlet, that's like pocket change. Or they trade out of it.
 
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discostew

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Lake_Bueller said:
When I was purchasing my G4 (way back in 2009), the dealership was offering a warranty. I was going to purchase just for the potential headgasket issues. But after reading the small print, the headgasket replacement was EXEMPT from the warranty. They're not stupid and will exclude commonly know (and expensive) issues.
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The certified Preowned stuff is good. But it's going to have to be a newer vehicle to put that on it. I think people make out on those with stuff like seat heaters, infotainment stuff, maybe a water pump, wheel bearings, suspension stuff like compressors and control arms. But the need for a replacement trans or engine is pretty rare, probably not going to happen to all of us. Some people know how to work the CPO warranty. You figure your buying and putting a warranty on the truck while it's still covered under a factory warranty. So you get it for 2 grand ish. and that can take you to 100,000 miles sometimes. So then that makes it a little safer to strap on a little more debt on the front end. It's all about what miles are on the truck when your buying extended warranties. It's almost reasonable when the truck has 36,000 miles and still covered by the factory.
 
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DiscoHasBeen

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Blue said:
It's just not worth the frustration to deal with these shit warranty companies.
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I lost my work truck when we moved here. Driving the 2500HD back and forth to work became expensive so I bought the Colorado. About a week later the oil light came on. Low oil. Filled it up and a few days later it came on again followed by a misfire code. I won't bore you with the details of the whole episode but at some point the service manager approached me with the idea I buy an extended warranty. He was like wait a month, claim the engine, and you'll have a new engine and a warranty. I declined because first, I'm no choir boy but that's not cool. Second, this is between you and the mook who traded the truck in, don't drag me into it. Third, if my claim was denied I might return the truck by driving it through that door right there. They ended up putting an engine in it.

Ironically, about two years later I'm driving home and notice some dude on my ass. Turned into a convenience store with him following. Walking in with him behind me I hear a "hey". The conversation was as follows.

Did you buy that truck from...

Yes

That's my old truck. Has it given you any problems?

Me, no but the dealer had to put an engine in it.

Yeah it started burning a bunch of oil and fouling the #4 plug so I just traded it in.
 
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gimebakmybulits

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The warranty will be the least of your problems......your big issue is finding a Land Rover service center or dealer that can actually fix their way out of a wet paper bag.
 
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gimebakmybulits said:
The warranty will be the least of your problems......your big issue is finding a Land Rover service center or dealer that can actually fix their way out of a wet paper bag.
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And it's only going to get worse. Why would anybody stay and fix this shit for free. They don't pay for shit . Because the US is the only market that pays techs on the flat rate system, they decided to not figure out how to make it work.
 
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