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Read the fine print (not covered) items carefully Mark. You have up until the 3 year bumper to bumper runs out to purchase the extended warranty. I looked at the 7 year/84,000 km package for my 2015 in 2018, The dealer finance guy quoted me $3,300 for the package from FCPP. He didn't bother to tell me the 7 years started way back when I bought the car in 2015, and the 84,000 km also was total km, not 84k more than the 15,000km I had on it at the time. He also used the $1,400 headlight replacement as an example of the great protection. Oops... fine print said headlights were not covered. At another dealer who sells the GM extended warranty, he quoted the same price but by then I had researched enough to know the huge mark-up on the extended warranty. I waffled on the price and he immediately started dropping from $3,300 down to $2,500 by the time I said no thanks and left. My GM service manager friend advised me that the GM extended is considerably better than the FCPP when it comes to claims, for what that's worth. Typically FCPP requires the dealer to tear the car apart as much as necessary to assess if it will even be covered before they commit to paying the bill. If they deny, you are responsible not only for the repair, but for the tear down investigation as well. Extended warranty may make you sleep better at night but in my opinion, a warranty item will likely show up prior to the manufacturer bumper to bumper warranty running out and after that you still have the remainder of the 5 year on the power train. Again. Read the fine print well as there is a long list of things that are not covered. Extended is a cash grab in my opinion and I sleep fine at night without it. And be careful if they tell you for a few dollars more they have a plan that will refund your total cost if you never have to use the plan. Few have ever got their refund. Use Google for extended warranty reviews.....This is totally my opinion only on this and I'm sure somewhere out there extended warranty has actually paid for itself with someone.

<blockquote data-quote="Rruuff Day" data-source="post: 222805" data-attributes="member: 2217"><p>Read the fine print (not covered) items carefully Mark. You have up until the 3 year bumper to bumper runs out to purchase the extended warranty. I looked at the 7 year/84,000 km package for my 2015 in 2018, The dealer finance guy quoted me $3,300 for the package from FCPP. He didn&#039;t bother to tell me the 7 years started way back when I bought the car in 2015, and the 84,000 km also was total km, not 84k more than the 15,000km I had on it at the time. He also used the $1,400 headlight replacement as an example of the great protection. Oops... fine print said headlights were not covered. At another dealer who sells the GM extended warranty, he quoted the same price but by then I had researched enough to know the huge mark-up on the extended warranty. I waffled on the price and he immediately started dropping from $3,300 down to $2,500 by the time I said no thanks and left. My GM service manager friend advised me that the GM extended is considerably better than the FCPP when it comes to claims, for what that&#039;s worth. Typically FCPP requires the dealer to tear the car apart as much as necessary to assess if it will even be covered before they commit to paying the bill. If they deny, you are responsible not only for the repair, but for the tear down investigation as well. Extended warranty may make you sleep better at night but in my opinion, a warranty item will likely show up prior to the manufacturer bumper to bumper warranty running out and after that you still have the remainder of the 5 year on the power train. Again. Read the fine print well as there is a long list of things that are not covered. Extended is a cash grab in my opinion and I sleep fine at night without it. And be careful if they tell you for a few dollars more they have a plan that will refund your total cost if you never have to use the plan. Few have ever got their refund. Use Google for extended warranty reviews.....This is totally my opinion only on this and I&#039;m sure somewhere out there extended warranty has actually paid for itself with someone.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Rruuff Day, post: 222805, member: 2217"] Read the fine print (not covered) items carefully Mark. You have up until the 3 year bumper to bumper runs out to purchase the extended warranty. I looked at the 7 year/84,000 km package for my 2015 in 2018, The dealer finance guy quoted me $3,300 for the package from FCPP. He didn't bother to tell me the 7 years started way back when I bought the car in 2015, and the 84,000 km also was total km, not 84k more than the 15,000km I had on it at the time. He also used the $1,400 headlight replacement as an example of the great protection. Oops... fine print said headlights were not covered. At another dealer who sells the GM extended warranty, he quoted the same price but by then I had researched enough to know the huge mark-up on the extended warranty. I waffled on the price and he immediately started dropping from $3,300 down to $2,500 by the time I said no thanks and left. My GM service manager friend advised me that the GM extended is considerably better than the FCPP when it comes to claims, for what that's worth. Typically FCPP requires the dealer to tear the car apart as much as necessary to assess if it will even be covered before they commit to paying the bill. If they deny, you are responsible not only for the repair, but for the tear down investigation as well. Extended warranty may make you sleep better at night but in my opinion, a warranty item will likely show up prior to the manufacturer bumper to bumper warranty running out and after that you still have the remainder of the 5 year on the power train. Again. Read the fine print well as there is a long list of things that are not covered. Extended is a cash grab in my opinion and I sleep fine at night without it. And be careful if they tell you for a few dollars more they have a plan that will refund your total cost if you never have to use the plan. Few have ever got their refund. Use Google for extended warranty reviews.....This is totally my opinion only on this and I'm sure somewhere out there extended warranty has actually paid for itself with someone. [/QUOTE]

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