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Originally Posted by Karin156
I was told by my dealer that if I replaced the tires with something else than what was stock, then the warranty would not work. Seemed like a lot of retrictions, so I declined as well. However, I did end up getting the extended maintenance at a discount! I calculated the costs of oil changes, services, and brakes and it already covered the costs so it seemed to work well for me.
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1. The "calculation" only "works" when you put in the outrageous charges that dealers use. You really MUST find an indy for the car once the BMW warranty is done.
In fact the maintenance plan is great because it makes people come to the dealer- so that should other issues come up, they are more likely to just get them all fixed at the dealer- dealer gets to rape you on the 'out of warranty' repairs.
2. The calculation assumes you will get brakes in there...you may not! Then you've grossly overpaid.
3. If you crash the car, or someone crashes into you and totals it, you threw away the money.
4. You could have bought that plan up to 4 years and 50k miles from now. Of course they probably told you "one time offer, you'll never see this discount again". You do know that every dealer makes up their own prices for this- there is no 'msrp' like there is for the car.