Extended Warranty

Keep your money in your wallet, guy. You bought a very reliable car. Chances of saving anything on possibly needed repairs well in the future are slim.

I'll second that.

Buy glass coverage on your insurance policy. You'll thank me for this advice in due time.

Basia

I would generally agree and I thought 5 year drive train warranty would cover major repair expense. Unfortunately the expensive electronics in today's cars can approach that of a drive train repair and that warranty is only 3 years. Makes it tougher to decide but extended warranties are still a profit item for those that sell them.

Contemporary electronics generally either fail during the first few uses....or last close to forever.

That's also true. I mentioned in ng once that a few years ago my son had a BMW whose center console failed under warranty. Would have cost him $3,000 other wise.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong- but that's the way to bet ;-)

That's always been true, and not just for electronics. Manufacturing defects and substandard materials generally fail early ("early" varying according to what device we're talking about). This is called "infant mortality". Then the item typically has a long period of reliable performance until wear and tear cause the failure rate to increase. A graph of failure rate versus time is usually a U-shaped curve.

Nothing in the above should be construed to mean that failures will not occur after the infant mortality period. It is just that they become muchmore unlikely.

The fact that someone is making money by selling those warranties should be a cautionary note.

Just last night we were out driving and saw a car abandoned by the side of the road. This caused me to notice how seldom we see a breakdown on the side of the road these days. A car on the shoulder with the hood up used to be commonplace 50 or 60 years ago. I've been there myself a few times.

The 6 CD player in my 2007 OBS failed during the warrant period and was replaced. When it failed again, after the warranty expired, I didn't bother to replace it.

David

Some electronics you cannot do without. I recall maybe 30 years ago a woman had a Buick where the speedometer and other gauges was a display and it failed. No problem driving the car with it not working but you did not know how fast you were going.