Basically - should I get the extended warranty?TT cost about $32,000 new (Outdoors RV). Warranty is 7 years (so 6 additional) with $100 deductible good at any RV shop in North America. Also full roadside assistance which could be helpful if they honor it (Hello, I'm calling from a sat phone in Death Valley. My awning motor broke, please come fix it!) $2750. Worth it?It is cancellable and has a pro-ratable refund at any time so I have a few days to make a decision. I put it on a credit card for now.The PDI went well. I didn't find anything not working. TT seems solidly built. Dealer seemed to do a good job. However when I get home I found a little water at the foot of the slide when the slide was out. I'm not sure the source but we had a torrential (2-3 inch) downpour two days before I picked up. So I need to take a good look at that to see what's going on. In general though these TTs have a good reputation so I'm not expecting it to fall apart when I drive down the road.Is this a warranty you would buy/keep, or not?

I've pretty much never bought an ext warranty on anything. Rarely even a factory warranty. Disclaimer, I can/do fix 90% of what goes wrong with anything I own. But even if you're not mechanically inclined or willing, add up $2-3k on every major purchase and $2-300 on every smaller purchase and ask yourself if you've spent or will expect to spend ALL that money on out of warranty work that would have been covered. My guess is no. That said, if it covers everything it needs to, and you use the RV ALOT, it may pencil out.....maybe. Btw, if warranty companies didn't make a profit on selling them, they wouldn't sell them, so the law of averages is in your favor to not buy one.

Grit dog wrote:I've pretty much never bought an ext warranty on anything. Rarely even a factory warranty. Disclaimer, I can/do fix 90% of what goes wrong with anything I own. But even if you're not mechanically inclined or willing, add up $2-3k on every major purchase and $2-300 on every smaller purchase and ask yourself if you've spent or will expect to spend ALL that money on out of warranty work that would have been covered. My guess is no. That said, if it covers everything it needs to, and you use the RV ALOT, it may pencil out.....maybe. Btw, if warranty companies didn't make a profit on selling them, they wouldn't sell them, so the law of averages is in your favor to not buy one.I agree with you and your logic is very sound.I have never owned a trailer before and know they have reputations for being 'works in progress." Also I was smitten with the 'roadside service.' But I will probably cancel.

save the money use it for maint on the unit

A couple of things I'm sure they did not tell you:1. You will probably have to have dealer do regular maintenance. For example, roof-caulking (you pay for) How much maintenance costs would you be able to do yourself instead of paying the dealer for? 2. That pro-rated refund; it is applied to the END of the loan so you only see it when/if you pay it off or sell it. Most of us (me) learned about those after we got burned. I never bought the extended service after that first trailer.

It doesn’t have a drive train, so not even close to worth it. Save the money. You can repair most of the tt for what the extended warranty will cost you.You can get inexpensive roadside elsewhere.

Picked up TT - question about extended warranty

Nutinelse2do
Explorer
Oct 24, 2017
It doesn’t have a drive train, so not even close to worth it. Save the money. You can repair most of the tt for what the extended warranty will cost you.

You can get inexpensive roadside elsewhere.
guidry
Explorer
Oct 24, 2017
A couple of things I'm sure they did not tell you:
1. You will probably have to have dealer do regular maintenance. For example, roof-caulking (you pay for) How much maintenance costs would you be able to do yourself instead of paying the dealer for?
2. That pro-rated refund; it is applied to the END of the loan so you only see it when/if you pay it off or sell it.

Most of us (me) learned about those after we got burned. I never bought the extended service after that first trailer.
newman_fulltime
Explorer II
Oct 24, 2017
save the money use it for maint on the unit
rvshrinker
Explorer III
Oct 24, 2017
Grit dog wrote:
I've pretty much never bought an ext warranty on anything. Rarely even a factory warranty.
Disclaimer, I can/do fix 90% of what goes wrong with anything I own.
But even if you're not mechanically inclined or willing, add up $2-3k on every major purchase and $2-300 on every smaller purchase and ask yourself if you've spent or will expect to spend ALL that money on out of warranty work that would have been covered.
My guess is no.

That said, if it covers everything it needs to, and you use the RV ALOT, it may pencil out.....maybe.

Btw, if warranty companies didn't make a profit on selling them, they wouldn't sell them, so the law of averages is in your favor to not buy one.

I agree with you and your logic is very sound.

I have never owned a trailer before and know they have reputations for being 'works in progress." Also I was smitten with the 'roadside service.' But I will probably cancel.
Grit_dog
Navigator
Oct 24, 2017
I've pretty much never bought an ext warranty on anything. Rarely even a factory warranty.
Disclaimer, I can/do fix 90% of what goes wrong with anything I own.
But even if you're not mechanically inclined or willing, add up $2-3k on every major purchase and $2-300 on every smaller purchase and ask yourself if you've spent or will expect to spend ALL that money on out of warranty work that would have been covered.
My guess is no.

That said, if it covers everything it needs to, and you use the RV ALOT, it may pencil out.....maybe.

Btw, if warranty companies didn't make a profit on selling them, they wouldn't sell them, so the law of averages is in your favor to not buy one.

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