Anybody use " RV Warranty Forever" service?

Don't have it but would like to know what are the costs?
Nothing up front? How much for the inspection? Where are the inspectors? What if the find a `problem'? Who fixes it? How much to fix it, if any? Is everyone nationwide?

Might want to go back and read those rules again, your not supposed to post the same thing in multiple forums.

ScottG,

I understand what you say, but there is no place to catch all for my Question, with that said, with $ 50,000 decision to make, I would hope there would be some leniency & understanding.

There's no need to double post if everybody does what I do and that is to click on `Newest' to just read the latest posts. Your two posts came up together.

56Jeff wrote:
ScottG,

I understand what you say, but there is no place to catch all for my Question, with that said, with $ 50,000 decision to make, I would hope there would be some leniency & understanding.

RULE #1 NOTHING, I REPEAT NOTHING IS "FOREVER", PERIOD.

Anyone or any business touting that they will "warrantee" something forever is a out and out crook.

RULE #2 DO NOT TRUST SALES PEOPLE.

RULE #3 When in doubt refer back to Rule #1.

It is your money to give away on after market warranties, I can't stop you from doing that but you better listen up..

Very few people will ever, ever get their moneys worth out of the extra fees paid upfront for aftermarket warrantys. Good chance that the warranty outfit will go belly up, disappear and or change hands by the time you need to make a claim, when that happens you warranty is nothing more than a piece of paper.

$50K is a drop in the bucket and should not be sweated as far as RVs go and paying for a extended warranty is typically a waste of your hard earned cash.. If buying new your RV will come with at least a 1yr factory warranty, after that pretty much most of the bugs will have been worked out.

If you take nothing else away from my post please read the following CLOSELY.

Take the money you would be paying UPFRONT for the extra warranty, put it into a SAVINGS ACCOUNT, add a few $ per month to that account every month.

Then when you do encounter a expensive repair you will have some money IN THE BANK to help cover the repairs. In a sense you are the warranty and you are more dependable than the aftermarket scammers.

I am not sure as to what it is you are afraid of breaking but in some cases your INSURANCE (as long as you have a loan out on the RV you WILL BE REQUIRED TO CARRY SOME SORT OF INSURANCE) will often pay for the major disasters like water damage..

They are owned by, and DBA as national automotive experts. They are also in the car business for this type of thing.

It is only a sales technique to get you to buy from a particular dealer. In other words, I will buy from this dealer, because they offer this "warranty" Which it really is not. It's a after sale, inspection, repair and upsell scheme. Which is fine, if that is what you want as a customer.

But it comes with a hidden cost, you have to have the dealer do annual inspections, and all the repairs, needed or not. The agenda for the dealer is to charge you, for inspections, repairs, and to try and upsell you.

My new truck came with the same sort of thing, free oil changes for life. Catch is you have to have them do it, at a higher cost, and have all repairs done by them.

This warranty deal, is a who cares. Should not influence your buying process one way or the other. Fine to buy the rig from them, just don't have them do the inspections, They can still do any manufactures warranty work. You just don't have to participate in their little deal.

If you can get the same rig cheaper elsewhere, that does not have this so called warranty, that's the way I would go

Don't have it but would like to know what are the costs?
Nothing up front? How much for the inspection? Where are the inspectors? What if the find a `problem'? Who fixes it? How much to fix it, if any? Is everyone nationwide?

I have no interest in extended warranties for ANYTHING but am always interested in "new" business models.

Checking around the internet I have found that this is not a warranty you buy, it is a "standard feature" on all new RVs(and some used) sold by a participating dealer. The customer must bring the RV back yearly for inspection and maintenance. Think that there won't be a good size bill for "needed" maintenance?

Also I won't list the stuff not covered but the one that stuck out(catch that?) was slides weren't covered, but of course the buyer can always buy another extended warranty to cover what is not covered by the "lifetime" warranty. Whose or what lifetime I'm not sure.

Telling the RV buyer that this RV has a lifetime warranty is just another selling gimmick. Many will buy that particular RV because of the warranty.

I am not one of many.

A long time ago I bought electric motors many of which had lifetime warranties. The courts determined that `lifetime' was seven years. Go figure.

to me a waste of time. the price of your trailer will be higher and buying a new trailer you automatically are covered for 1-2 years on most everything.

get the best price on the trailer you want and go from there.

warranty doesn't cover hydraulic jacks by the way.

regardless, if you are still wanting this look at what has to be looked at each year, it says "you" but i suspect it means a dealer....figure a few hundred a year. http://www.rvwarrantyforever.com/Default.aspx?PageID=78

"Q: Can I perform my own maintenance?"

A: No. All services must be performed by a professional repair facility. This is to ensure proper documentation as well as the workmanship of all services performed on your RV.

edbehnke wrote:
http://www.rvwarrantyforever.com/Default.aspx?PageID=78

"Q: Can I perform my own maintenance?"

A: No. All services must be performed by a professional repair facility. This is to ensure proper documentation as well as the workmanship of all services performed on your RV.

This is what I was told when I was looking at a Prime Time unit with this warranty. The dealer said they did not have to do the work but it had to be performed by a service technician. It was advertised at a "free" add on but I suspect that the cost is included in the unit cost.