Extended warranty?

I just bought an 05 Rav.
An extended warranty is $1400. Yeh, I know they are big money makers for
the dealer and I have never bought one before; but $1400 doesn't seem so
bad. One major repair in year 5 will justify it.
Whatcha think?
Are these things negotiable? Once when I turned an extended warranty down
the guy gradually came down to half. This guy didn't do anything.

"Ted" <Ted@ixmil.com> wrote in message
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>I just bought an 05 Rav.
> An extended warranty is $1400. Yeh, I know they are big money makers for
> the dealer and I have never bought one before; but $1400 doesn't seem so
> bad. One major repair in year 5 will justify it.
> Whatcha think?
> Are these things negotiable? Once when I turned an extended warranty down
> the guy gradually came down to half. This guy didn't do anything.[/color]

In Toyotas, the extended warranties are worth about ONE QUARTER, at most, of
the original asking price for the warranty. If I had bought one on my 99
Camry, it would have been a TOTAL waste of money.

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>[/color]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:39:07 GMT, "Ted" <Ted@ixmil.com> wrote:
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>I just bought an 05 Rav.
>An extended warranty is $1400. Yeh, I know they are big money makers for
>the dealer and I have never bought one before; but $1400 doesn't seem so
>bad. One major repair in year 5 will justify it.
>Whatcha think?
>Are these things negotiable? Once when I turned an extended warranty down
>the guy gradually came down to half. This guy didn't do anything.
>[/color]

It is a total waste of money with a Toyota....but if you really want
it you can find them on the web for a LOT less than the dealer.

Make SURE you get the Toyota extended warranty...

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Scott in Florida

"Scott in Florida" <JustAsk@Florida.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:39:07 GMT, "Ted" <Ted@ixmil.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
>>I just bought an 05 Rav.
>>An extended warranty is $1400. Yeh, I know they are big money makers for
>>the dealer and I have never bought one before; but $1400 doesn't seem so
>>bad. One major repair in year 5 will justify it.
>>Whatcha think?
>>Are these things negotiable? Once when I turned an extended warranty down
>>the guy gradually came down to half. This guy didn't do anything.
>>[/color]
>
> It is a total waste of money with a Toyota....but if you really want
> it you can find them on the web for a LOT less than the dealer.
>
> Make SURE you get the Toyota extended warranty...
>[/color]
You can get a Toyota extended warranty on the web? How?

"Ted" <Ted@ixmil.com> wrote in message
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>I just bought an 05 Rav.
> An extended warranty is $1400. Yeh, I know they are big money makers for
> the dealer and I have never bought one before; but $1400 doesn't seem so
> bad. One major repair in year 5 will justify it.
> Whatcha think?
> Are these things negotiable? Once when I turned an extended warranty down
> the guy gradually came down to half. This guy didn't do anything.
>[/color]

check out [url]www.toyota-4runner.com[/url] there is some dealer on there that sells
extended warranties (genuine Toyota ones) for $350

"Dan J.S." <me@hyperx.com> wrote in message
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> "Ted" <Ted@ixmil.com> wrote in message
> news:fIWwf.400$wk5.117@news02.roc.ny...[color=green]
>>I just bought an 05 Rav.
>> An extended warranty is $1400. Yeh, I know they are big money makers for
>> the dealer and I have never bought one before; but $1400 doesn't seem so
>> bad. One major repair in year 5 will justify it.
>> Whatcha think?
>> Are these things negotiable? Once when I turned an extended warranty
>> down the guy gradually came down to half. This guy didn't do anything.
>>[/color]
>
> check out [url]www.toyota-4runner.com[/url] there is some dealer on there that sells
> extended warranties (genuine Toyota ones) for $350
>[/color]

oops [url]www.toyota-4runner.org[/url]

"Dan J.S." <me@hyperx.com> wrote in message
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> "Dan J.S." <me@hyperx.com> wrote in message
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>> "Ted" <Ted@ixmil.com> wrote in message
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>>>I just bought an 05 Rav.
>>> An extended warranty is $1400. Yeh, I know they are big money makers
>>> for the dealer and I have never bought one before; but $1400 doesn't
>>> seem so bad. One major repair in year 5 will justify it.
>>> Whatcha think?
>>> Are these things negotiable? Once when I turned an extended warranty
>>> down the guy gradually came down to half. This guy didn't do anything.
>>>[/color]
>>
>> check out [url]www.toyota-4runner.com[/url] there is some dealer on there that sells
>> extended warranties (genuine Toyota ones) for $350
>>[/color]
>
> oops [url]www.toyota-4runner.org[/url]
>[/color]
Thanks much. I got a few names off it that I will try tomorrow. $800 for
100k miles sounds like a winner.

Check the deductible.


"Ted" <Ted@ixmil.com> wrote in message
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> "Dan J.S." <me@hyperx.com> wrote in message
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>> "Dan J.S." <me@hyperx.com> wrote in message
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>>> "Ted" <Ted@ixmil.com> wrote in message
>>> news:fIWwf.400$wk5.117@news02.roc.ny...
>>>>I just bought an 05 Rav.
>>>> An extended warranty is $1400. Yeh, I know they are big money makers
>>>> for the dealer and I have never bought one before; but $1400 doesn't
>>>> seem so bad. One major repair in year 5 will justify it.
>>>> Whatcha think?
>>>> Are these things negotiable? Once when I turned an extended warranty
>>>> down the guy gradually came down to half. This guy didn't do anything.
>>>>
>>>
>>> check out [url]www.toyota-4runner.com[/url] there is some dealer on there that
>>> sells extended warranties (genuine Toyota ones) for $350
>>>[/color]
>>
>> oops [url]www.toyota-4runner.org[/url]
>>[/color]
> Thanks much. I got a few names off it that I will try tomorrow. $800 for
> 100k miles sounds like a winner.
>[/color]

Well you aren't actually getting 5 years of warranty --- the factory is 3
years so you're getting only 2 years.

"Ted" <Ted@ixmil.com> wrote in message
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>I just bought an 05 Rav.
> An extended warranty is $1400. Yeh, I know they are big money makers for
> the dealer and I have never bought one before; but $1400 doesn't seem so
> bad. One major repair in year 5 will justify it.
> Whatcha think?
> Are these things negotiable? Once when I turned an extended warranty down
> the guy gradually came down to half. This guy didn't do anything.
>[/color]

> Thanks much. I got a few names off it that I will try tomorrow. $800 for[color=blue]
> 100k miles sounds like a winner.
>
>[/color]

Don't waste your money. The last 2 toys ive had both lasted well over
100000, and never needed any repair that came close to that figure

--
'Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers
Leave the light on at the top of the stairs
Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky
A tree taps on the window pane
That feeling smothers me again
Daddy is it true that we all have to die?
At the top of the stairs
Is darkness

I closed my eyes and when I looked
Your name was in the memorial book
And what had become of all the things we planned
I accepted the commiserations
Of all your friends and your relations
But there's something I still don't understand
You were so tall
How could you fall?

Some photographs of a summer's day
A little boys lifetime away
Is all I've left of everything we've done
Like a pale moon in a sunny sky
Death gazes down as I pass by
To remind me that I'm but my fathers son

I offer up to you
This tribute
I offer up to you
This tank park salute'

* Billy Bragg *


"Ted" <Ted@ixmil.com> wrote in message
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> "Dan J.S." <me@hyperx.com> wrote in message
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> > "Dan J.S." <me@hyperx.com> wrote in message
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> >>
> >> "Ted" <Ted@ixmil.com> wrote in message
> >> news:fIWwf.400$wk5.117@news02.roc.ny...
> >>>I just bought an 05 Rav.
> >>> An extended warranty is $1400. Yeh, I know they are big money makers
> >>> for the dealer and I have never bought one before; but $1400 doesn't
> >>> seem so bad. One major repair in year 5 will justify it.
> >>> Whatcha think?
> >>> Are these things negotiable? Once when I turned an extended warranty
> >>> down the guy gradually came down to half. This guy didn't do[/color][/color][/color]
anything.[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
> >>>
> >>
> >> check out [url]www.toyota-4runner.com[/url] there is some dealer on there that[/color][/color][/color]
sells[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
> >> extended warranties (genuine Toyota ones) for $350
> >>[/color]
> >
> > oops [url]www.toyota-4runner.org[/url]
> >[/color][/color]

"Ted" <Ted@ixmil.com> wrote in message
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>I just bought an 05 Rav.
> An extended warranty is $1400. Yeh, I know they are big money makers for
> the dealer and I have never bought one before; but $1400 doesn't seem so
> bad. One major repair in year 5 will justify it.
> Whatcha think?
> Are these things negotiable? Once when I turned an extended warranty down
> the guy gradually came down to half. This guy didn't do anything.[/color]
Based on this discussion, I did some reading and called Toyota.
1) The warranty is the same price anytime before the new car warranty
expires. So there is no reason to buy it now, when I can buy it 35,000
miles from now; might as well hold onto my money. That is correct, isn't
it?
2) The suggested retail on Toyota's website for the 6/75 is $875 and my
dealer wants $1,400! Argh. I haven't managed to reach any of the cheaper
people but according to the other threads, they are like $400. I am reading
this right, aren't I?

Yeh I know Toyotas are great and I will never need $400 worth of repairs,
but I just had $1,000 on my 5 year old Dodge, and $400 sounds like cheap
insurance.

Thanks.

"Ted" <Ted@ixmil.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Ted" <Ted@ixmil.com> wrote in message
> news:fIWwf.400$wk5.117@news02.roc.ny...[color=green]
>>I just bought an 05 Rav.
>> An extended warranty is $1400. Yeh, I know they are big money makers for
>> the dealer and I have never bought one before; but $1400 doesn't seem so
>> bad. One major repair in year 5 will justify it.
>> Whatcha think?
>> Are these things negotiable? Once when I turned an extended warranty
>> down the guy gradually came down to half. This guy didn't do anything.[/color]
> Based on this discussion, I did some reading and called Toyota.
> 1) The warranty is the same price anytime before the new car warranty
> expires. So there is no reason to buy it now, when I can buy it 35,000
> miles from now; might as well hold onto my money. That is correct, isn't
> it?
> 2) The suggested retail on Toyota's website for the 6/75 is $875 and my
> dealer wants $1,400! Argh. I haven't managed to reach any of the cheaper
> people but according to the other threads, they are like $400. I am
> reading this right, aren't I?
>
> Yeh I know Toyotas are great and I will never need $400 worth of repairs,
> but I just had $1,000 on my 5 year old Dodge, and $400 sounds like cheap
> insurance.
>
> Thanks.[/color]

DODGES? What the FUCK to do you expect? Don't discuss Crap products in the
same breath as Toyota.


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"Sharx35" <sharx35@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Ted" <Ted@ixmil.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> "Ted" <Ted@ixmil.com> wrote in message
>> news:fIWwf.400$wk5.117@news02.roc.ny...[color=darkred]
>>>I just bought an 05 Rav.
>>> An extended warranty is $1400. Yeh, I know they are big money makers
>>> for the dealer and I have never bought one before; but $1400 doesn't
>>> seem so bad. One major repair in year 5 will justify it.
>>> Whatcha think?
>>> Are these things negotiable? Once when I turned an extended warranty
>>> down the guy gradually came down to half. This guy didn't do anything.[/color]
>> Based on this discussion, I did some reading and called Toyota.
>> 1) The warranty is the same price anytime before the new car warranty
>> expires. So there is no reason to buy it now, when I can buy it 35,000
>> miles from now; might as well hold onto my money. That is correct, isn't
>> it?
>> 2) The suggested retail on Toyota's website for the 6/75 is $875 and my
>> dealer wants $1,400! Argh. I haven't managed to reach any of the
>> cheaper people but according to the other threads, they are like $400. I
>> am reading this right, aren't I?
>>
>> Yeh I know Toyotas are great and I will never need $400 worth of repairs,
>> but I just had $1,000 on my 5 year old Dodge, and $400 sounds like cheap
>> insurance.
>>
>> Thanks.[/color]
>
> DODGES? What the FUCK to do you expect? Don't discuss Crap products in the
> same breath as Toyota.
>[/color]

I am a Toyota guy, but I love Dodge Challengers and Chargers (original
ones) - plus, as soon as the new Challenger comes out, I am buying it.
Things have changed quite a bit at Chryco. I am really beginning to think
Toyota is slipping. My 2005 Sienna has been back to the dealer 4 times now
for fairly major things - my neighbors Dodge Caravan (who bought it same
week as I got the Sienna) put twice as many miles on it as I did and has not
taken it back once.

I think all major manufacturers are finally getting it.

Dan J.S. wrote:
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> Things have changed quite a bit at Chryco. I am really beginning to
> think Toyota is slipping. My 2005 Sienna has been back to the dealer 4
> times now for fairly major things - my neighbors Dodge Caravan (who
> bought it same week as I got the Sienna) put twice as many miles on it
> as I did and has not taken it back once.
>[/color]
What major things has your Sienna had? I assume the electronic throttle lag
is one of them?

Your friend has been lucky with his Caravan. Most people I know that have
owned newer Crapslers (Caravan, Sebring, Neon, and even a Magnum) have had
lots of problems with them from the moment they bought them new.

[color=blue]
> I think all major manufacturers are finally getting it.[/color]

I don't fully agree. Perhaps the differences in reliability over the first
3 or so years are minimal. But after 5 or more years, that is where Toyota
and Honda continue to come out near the top.

"High Tech Misfit" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Dan J.S. wrote:
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>> Things have changed quite a bit at Chryco. I am really beginning to
>> think Toyota is slipping. My 2005 Sienna has been back to the dealer 4
>> times now for fairly major things - my neighbors Dodge Caravan (who
>> bought it same week as I got the Sienna) put twice as many miles on it
>> as I did and has not taken it back once.
>>[/color]
> What major things has your Sienna had? I assume the electronic throttle
> lag
> is one of them?[/color]

The electronics - the entire dashboard went out twice. The AC went out
once, and the moon roof rattles like crazy (still does)... so they are
looking at that again. On the plus size, the 2003 4runner has been trouble
free - i still need to take it in for the sulfur TSB that came out last
year... The throttle thing has been pretty good. I have the AWD model, and
the dealer told me they are programmed a little different so the lag is not
as bad as my ES330 was (I traded in the es330 for the sienna when we had our
second kid - the Lexus es330 was just the worst car I have ever owned
because of the lag issues - wife almost got into an accident and that was
the end of that one)

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>
> Your friend has been lucky with his Caravan. Most people I know that have
> owned newer Crapslers (Caravan, Sebring, Neon, and even a Magnum) have had
> lots of problems with them from the moment they bought them new.
>[/color]


i owned a first year durango before trading it in on a 2003 4runner (it was
a 1998 model) - no problems with it, but around 55k i did notice the tranny
to slip - so yes, Dodge quality is not as good, but I believe things are
getting better. The new 300c has a mercedes tranny - and the Hemis are
strong reliable engines.

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>[color=green]
>> I think all major manufacturers are finally getting it.[/color]
>
> I don't fully agree. Perhaps the differences in reliability over the
> first
> 3 or so years are minimal. But after 5 or more years, that is where
> Toyota
> and Honda continue to come out near the top.[/color]