Extended Maintenance Plan? Worth it...Please Help

[FSETH]

If you are mechanically inclined at all, you can change your own brakes for about $400 (complete front and rear pads and rotors).

WIth your mileage estimates you would need about 3 oil changes (with BMW's recommended intervals) for a total of $540, but you can also do that yourself and save a lot of money. Or you can take it to an indy shop and goet it done for under $100

You will also probably only need one inspection (if that)

So if you can do some of these items yourself, I would say don't get it. Especially if you are sure you are going to sell at that mileage. I would only buy a warranty if I were going to use up all of the mileage as cars typically tend to break more with mileage and not age.

[mrbmwx5]

well! you can do the brake your sefl for wayyy less. ( about $600)

[FSETH]

Originally Posted by mrbmwx5

well! you can do the brake your sefl for wayyy less. ( about $600)

I did mine with Centric rotors and Axxis pads for about $420 total. Also, $180 for an oil change is crazy high. Take it to an Indy shop if you don't want to do it yourself.

[Quicksilver]

The extended Maintenance warranty.

[ca911]

extended maintenance covers brakes, wipers, services that are deemed necessary by the service interval data/etc.

extended warranty is the CPO preowned warranty, basically for anything big except it is NOT the same as the original warranty. check out this site for more clarification: http://www.bmwusa.com/Standard/Conte...y/Covered.aspx

[Bimmer360]

if i were you, i would wait a year or so or if you can afford an average of 10K more, you can get E70. Just my .2 cents.

[xnsf]

if you're planning on keeping the car for a while, then go with either of the CPOs.

it all comes down to is $7k worth slightly newer, 30,000 less miles, comfort seats ($0), and factory nav ($1800 when new)? doesn't seem all that bad...talk it down

[FSETH]

I say choice 1 or 3, whichever is in better cond. You are only planning on keeping the car for 3 years and plan on having under 100k miles. All of them should be under the extended manufacturers warranty for at least 2 of those years as you don't plan on going over the allowed mileage, right? If you were going to keep the car for a long time, I would say pick the one with the lowest miles, but in your case the milage really doesn't matter that much as they are all fairly low.

Forget that extended maintenance plan and just take the car to an indy shop if you are not planning on keeping it for more than 3 years or 85k.

The CPO extended manufacturers warranty (which you get purchasing CPO) is the important of the 2 warranties. If you really want to buy the maintenance plan, check to see if the brakes were changed on any of the X's you are looking at. That will be your biggest cost that the maintenance plan will cover. As I said before, you can get oil changes for under $100 and you will need 3 according to the mileage you plan on driving and when you plan on selling the car. So there is $300. You can change the brakes yourself for about $450. So there is $750. That is much cheaper than the maintenance plan. Even if you can't change the brakes yourself, you can go to an indy shop and get it done for much cheaper than the dealer adn the overall cost of 3 indy oil changes and 1 indy brake job would still be less than buying the maintenance warranty. Your call though.