Toyota Approved Warranty

[Rob Stubbs]

The new engine in my 2006 Rav4 that I have just had fitted under the extended warranty comes with a 12 months guarantee .

When I bought the car from Ron Brookes, Toyota last September it came with the Toyota Approved Warranty for 12 months. One month before it runs out I can renew it and the cost is £500 for 1 year or £700 for 2 years. RRG who fitted the engine said they could sort this for me - what would you do?

Regards Rob

[Davrav]

Ask for a discount

[FROSTYBALLS]

Presumably this is the Toyota Extended Warranty that you have been offered - http://www.toyota.co.uk/cgi-bin/toyota/bv/generic_editorial.jsp?navRoot=toyota_1024_root&fullwidth=true&noLeftMenu=true&forceText=%3cnone%3e&edname=Owners-Warranty-Extended&zone=Zone+Ownership&id=Owners-Warranty-Extended

Toyota Roadside Assistance is included.

You can take out an Extended Warranty on vehicles up to 8 years old, and can pay by instalments at no extra charge (12 month warranty can be paid over 10 months, and 24 month warranty over 20 months). See terms and conditions on the above webpage.

[redlew]

I don't think you will get a discount as I believe margins are slim. If you search this forum you will find several threads on whether to or not. Hindsight is 20/20 vision -if you end up not making claim you will think that you've done your money. Have repairs done that would have cost £5k and you'll bless the day you took it out.

Are you a lucky , worry free person ?

[anchorman]

The big advantage with the Toyota warranty is that it is like the original warranty. These aftermarket warranties all want things to fail before they will change something - the Toyota warranty will try and prevent failure as you would expect.

So the next thing is, you've got to try and work out what will fail. If it is a gearbox like GG had recently then you are quids in. If it is a water pump or nothing at all then it is expensive. Insurance is only good value if you claim on it. If I was going to have an extended warranty and the difference was between one of these garbage aftermarket rip offs or a pukka Toyota warranty.......there is your answer. Just pay the extra.

[FROSTYBALLS]

I would always go for a manufacturers extended warranty rather than a third party warranty.

We bought Mazda extended warranties for Mazdas we had as second cars - both warranty extensions included breakdown cover.

With the first, a Premacy, we extended the warranty for a year at a cost of £450. Seven months into the warranty extension, we had a code displayed for the airbag system, and had to have the driver's airbag replaced - cost of the airbag module was £750 plus fitting.

The replacement for the Premacy was a Mazda 2, and we bought a two year Mazda extended warranty for that when it was three years old - cost £425. Had no faults with the Mazda 2 during the warranty extension - but we considered it was well worth having for peace of mind.