5th (and final year) Warranty quote

Audi premium brand, built to last, expensive for a reason! 3 year warranty.

The cheaper alternative cars:

Kia - seven-year/100,000-mile warranty
SsangYong - five-year/unlimited-mileage warranty
Hyundai - five-year/unlimited-mileage warranty
Toyota - five-year/unlimited-mileage warranty
Subaru - five-year/unlimited-mileage warranty
Mitsubishi - five-year/62,500 mile warranty
Renault - four years/100,000 miles

You do have to laugh...just a little!

Jimbo10 said:

1.4 TFSI with 23K miles on the clock and the premium has almost doubled??? Shocking!

My 4th year of extended warranty cost £345 (all component, under 15k milage, £0 excess). This is due to expire in May.
I just went on the website and did a quote for the 5th (and final year) like for like came in at £677!!! My backside almost fell out.
'Named Component' came out at £475 (which is more palatable).

If applicable, what did you chaps get quoted for 5th year cover?

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They maybe want you to buy a new one !

S32B said:

Audi premium brand, built to last, expensive for a reason! 3 year warranty.

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There's a bit of a contradiction in your explanation there! If they are 'built to last' the warranty wouldn't be so expensive...

S32B said:

Audi premium brand, built to last, expensive for a reason! 3 year warranty.

The cheaper alternative cars:

Kia - seven-year/100,000-mile warranty
SsangYong - five-year/unlimited-mileage warranty
Hyundai - five-year/unlimited-mileage warranty
Toyota - five-year/unlimited-mileage warranty
Subaru - five-year/unlimited-mileage warranty
Mitsubishi - five-year/62,500 mile warranty
Renault - four years/100,000 miles

You do have to laugh...just a little!

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You have to read the small print on these warranties, for example some of them only cover glass for 6 months and entertainment system for 3 years.

If you plan to keep the car then the best option is the factory warranty for new.

OP have you tried other 3rd party warranty companies?

cemerson said:

There's a bit of a contradiction in your explanation there! If they are 'built to last' the warranty wouldn't be so expensive...

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lol you miss the point! If you ask anyone to name premium brand (affordable) reliable cars they would say "Merc, Audi, BMW" as it's a popular consensus that German engineering is the best/bomb proof/will last for years etc. etc., if that WAS the case and the manufacturers of those makes truly believed it, then why do they only give us a 3 year warranty! Do they know something we don't???

Ask a non petrol head: Audi for £35k or a Kia for £12k, which would have the longer warranty?...most would say Audi!

S32B said:

Audi premium brand, built to last, expensive for a reason! 3 year warranty.

The cheaper alternative cars:

Kia - seven-year/100,000-mile warranty
SsangYong - five-year/unlimited-mileage warranty
Hyundai - five-year/unlimited-mileage warranty
Toyota - five-year/unlimited-mileage warranty
Subaru - five-year/unlimited-mileage warranty
Mitsubishi - five-year/62,500 mile warranty
Renault - four years/100,000 miles

You do have to laugh...just a little!

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They do it because they have to, otherwise they wouldn't sell anywhere near many cars as they do. The first three on the list would be practically worthless after three years without it.

Audi know that a bargain price isn't the main reason why most of their customers buy their cars. As with everything Audi, a 5 year warranty is on the extras list and you pay 1.5-2% more and get it when you buy the car new.

We all have the choice to save a shed load of money and could do if we drove a Kia Matiz. Do Kia offer the option of full privacy glass all round?

Don't forget in Europe it's only a 2 year warranty for most brands!

Matt Titanium said:

They do it because they have to, otherwise they wouldn't sell anywhere near many cars as they do. The first three on the list would be practically worthless after three years without it.

Audi know that a bargain price isn't the main reason why most of their customers buy their cars. As with everything Audi, a 5 year warranty is on the extras list and you pay 1.5-2% more and get it when you buy the car new.

We all have the choice to save a shed load of money and could do if we drove a Kia Matiz. Do Kia offer the option of full privacy glass all round?

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Very good points I suppose the kind of people that buy the first 3 makes are people that don't care what they drive and are happy with cheap and cheerful and just run them until they fall apart!

I just looked how much the extended warranty on mine would have been if I'd bought it to keep, to take it to 4 years £535 and 5 years £1,255

Think mine was £550 to extend from 3 to 5 years, but it was carried over from my previous A3 because that was just under 3 years old when it was traded in.

Wouldn’t bother at close to £700 personally. Given it’s relatively low mileage, and you’ve had it serviced to schedule, it’s very common to get goodwill towards any repairs. If the dealer won’t, just go to another rival group who will...case in point my old A5 had a window regulator fail. Local dealer wanted £1200, I said no thanks. Took it to another dealer and paid £100.

Stick it in your savings account with the rest of your ‘rainy day fund’ and hopefully you’ll never have to use it.

For me, you are far more likely to have repairs much less than £700, and even if you are unlucky on this car, over the course of 10/20yrs you will probably be better off not paying for extended warranties than paying for them IMO.

DrEskimo said:

Wouldn’t bother at close to £700 personally. Given it’s relatively low mileage, and you’ve had it serviced to schedule, it’s very common to get goodwill towards any repairs. If the dealer won’t, just go to another rival group who will...case in point my old A5 had a window regulator fail. Local dealer wanted £1200, I said no thanks. Took it to another dealer and paid £100.

Stick it in your savings account with the rest of your ‘rainy day fund’ and hopefully you’ll never have to use it.

For me, you are far more likely to have repairs much less than £700, and even if you are unlucky on this car, over the course of 10/20yrs you will probably be better off not paying for extended warranties than paying for them IMO.

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I would agree. Anyone offering insurance will usually be to the good but from experience with my last A3 Audi were fairly hopeless at rectifying what turned out to be a relatively simple misfire problem on a 2 year old 22k mile car because:
1) the car didn't throw up a code to tell them what was wrong.
2) the problem was not in the workshop manual list of symptoms/cures
3) Dealer and Audi kept batting it between each other as to whose responsibility it was to fix it.(with a change of loan car source each time).
4) the car was handed back to me twice unfixed.
5) it all took six months to sort out.
It seems these days there are few technicians able to diagnose problems and it can be a process of replacing bits until the problem goes away. All well and good if it's someone else's money paying for parts and labour but can become very expensive very quickly without a warranty. A few years ago I scrapped a perfectly good 6 year old car because the fuel pump let go and it was uneconomic to repair. I certainly wouldn't want to foot the bill for a knackered engine or gearbox these days.
For me, £550 for an extra 2 years manufacturer's warranty didn't need too much thought.

Matt Titanium said:

I would agree. Anyone offering insurance will usually be to the good but from experience with my last A3 Audi were fairly hopeless at rectifying what turned out to be a relatively simple misfire problem on a 2 year old 22k mile car because:
1) the car didn't throw up a code to tell them what was wrong.
2) the problem was not in the workshop manual list of symptoms/cures
3) Dealer and Audi kept batting it between each other as to whose responsibility it was to fix it.(with a change of loan car source each time).
4) the car was handed back to me twice unfixed.
5) it all took six months to sort out.
It seems these days there are few technicians able to diagnose problems and it can be a process of replacing bits until the problem goes away. All well and good if it's someone else's money paying for parts and labour but can become very expensive very quickly without a warranty. A few years ago I scrapped a perfectly good 6 year old car because the fuel pump let go and it was uneconomic to repair. I certainly wouldn't want to foot the bill for a knackered engine or gearbox these days.
For me, £550 for an extra 2 years manufacturer's warranty didn't need too much thought.

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So are you agreeing or disagreeing with buying the extended warranty?! Because at the start you agree with a post that advises to not buy it, then rant about Audi's inability to cure your cars problem, but then you shift and talk about a positive side that states it will become very expensive without a warranty and you finish by saying £550 for 2yrs warranty didn't need too much thought. haha!

Personally your post to me makes me want to buy an extended warranty but to be wary of which garage to take it to. I think by the time it gets to 3yrs old then most of us will have identified a good garage to take our cars to. For me its piece of mind, they may take a while to sort it, but if its free and covered then fine. I think its one of those things like car insurance, horrible to pay out because its invisible, but when you need it, you realise how stupid you may have been to have not had the right cover.

cemerson said:

There's a bit of a contradiction in your explanation there! If they are 'built to last' the warranty wouldn't be so expensive...

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Yes if they were built to last they would have a much longer warranty at least 5 year or better still 7 like Kia. Its an insurance policy you are paying for so they have calculated the risk and come to the conclusion its much risker to cover the vehicle in year 5 hence the higher premium. If they offered 5 years as standard from new they obviously think they would be out of pocket hence only giving 3 years cover. Best to have purchased the 5 year warranty for £545 from new. Toyota let you take out an extended warranty for an additional 2 years after the 5 is up.

Ormesome said:

So are you agreeing or disagreeing with buying the extended warranty?! Because at the start you agree with a post that advises to not buy it, then rant about Audi's inability to cure your cars problem, but then you shift and talk about a positive side that states it will become very expensive without a warranty and you finish by saying £550 for 2yrs warranty didn't need too much thought. haha!

Personally your post to me makes me want to buy an extended warranty but to be wary of which garage to take it to. I think by the time it gets to 3yrs old then most of us will have identified a good garage to take our cars to. For me its piece of mind, they may take a while to sort it, but if its free and covered then fine. I think its one of those things like car insurance, horrible to pay out because its invisible, but when you need it, you realise how stupid you may have been to have not had the right cover.

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Ha...glad it wasn't me that was confused...!

See I absolutely see your argument, but would slightly disagree with comparing it to insurance. Obviously if we put aside the fact that car insurance is compulsory, the amount that an insurance claim could cost you if you were uninsured is really limitless. A bad wreck with more than 2 cars involved, with multiple car repairs, fees, medical expenses, compensation...the list goes on. You could quite easily end up bankrupt with the hundreds of thousands of £££ involved.

On the other hand, repair works are fairly limited. Typically the high end bills that you would be really unfortunate to pay are typically around £3k. Sure, not a small amount, but not anywhere near the level above. So not only would you be really unlucky to face this bill, and not only would you be incredibly unlucky to not get Audi to at least cover 50% as goodwill, but over the life of a car (say 5yrs), facing that bill compared to £700 each year for a warranty (obviously that amount would rise over time..) would still leave you out of pocket.

The risk is hard to gauge, because unsurprisingly Audi and most car companies don't go around providing transparent data on failure rates of different components on different models at different ages...but I would hazard a guess from anecdotal evidence and what I've seen on here, that bills of that high with no good will gesture are rare on such a model and year, and as I said, I theorise you will be far more likely to spend less than the warranty amount each year (sometimes £0), than over the amount of the warranty. Typically by a very large margin...

Case in point, GF Mini now 8years old (she's owned it for 5), had only one out of warranty repair for £300 3yrs ago. Even if she has a major bill this year of £2k say for the clutch, she still would be better off than forking out for a warranty for the last 4yrs.
(Last year, the only money she spent on the car was £90 (brake fluid service + MOT). Didn't even depreciate in that year if AT valuations are anything to go by!).

That said, at around £500 I would be tempted...!

Ormesome said:

So are you agreeing or disagreeing with buying the extended warranty?! Because at the start you agree with a post that advises to not buy it, then rant about Audi's inability to cure your cars problem, but then you shift and talk about a positive side that states it will become very expensive without a warranty and you finish by saying £550 for 2yrs warranty didn't need too much thought. haha!

Personally your post to me makes me want to buy an extended warranty but to be wary of which garage to take it to. I think by the time it gets to 3yrs old then most of us will have identified a good garage to take our cars to. For me its piece of mind, they may take a while to sort it, but if its free and covered then fine. I think its one of those things like car insurance, horrible to pay out because its invisible, but when you need it, you realise how stupid you may have been to have not had the right cover.

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Sorry for the rant, I thought that I was presenting a balanced argument and highlighting that when these cars go wrong they aren't always as easy or cheap to repair as a Ford Cortina. Perhaps you know an Indie who can sniff the oil, diagnose exactly what is wrong with any car and have it all sorted in an hour for less than £100, when the main dealer and the manufacturers struggle and can take many months to repair them.

I believe at £550 the price of the 2yr extended warranty on a performance car that will be driven reasonably hard represents good value.
I have no idea how Jimbo treats his car but £677 to provide the same cover for just one year on a 1.4 that has done less than 24k miles seems pretty steep. There are so many variables that only Jimbo can decide if he wants to shell out his £677 or risk it.