Evening all

Has anyone had experience of a used car warranty company and more importantly have made a claim.

Any recommendations on who is good or bad.

I have nice car lined up but the warranty they offer is useless.

As always thanking you in advance

Try warranty direct, that’s who I’m with & they did cover the crank issue but have recently been bought over so you will have to check with them & get it confirmed in writing if I was you.

Malc

Alshepuk wrote:

Evening all

Has anyone had experience of a used car warranty company and more importantly have made a claim.

Any recommendations on who is good or bad.

I have nice car lined up but the warranty they offer is useless.

As always thanking you in advance

I've just taken out Land Rover extended warranty (car plan ) , as the car already has a new engine due to a crank snap they say they will cover a crank snap should it happen again as they say Land rover fit updated engine cranks which no longer means failure is a manufacturers default . Peace of mind for £80 a month I think is worth it given it cost £23k to repair last time ! MY24 Dynamic SE,MY21 HSE Silver, MY20 SQ7, MY 18 RRS HSE Dynamic , MY 16 RRS Autobiography now gone & MY 2005 Discovery 3 HSE that I will be buried in !

That's good to know. What classes as an 'updated engine'? Mine is a 2018...

Chips wrote:

I've just taken out Land Rover extended warranty (car plan ) , as the car already has a new engine due to a crank snap they say they will cover a crank snap should it happen again as they say Land rover fit updated engine cranks which no longer means failure is a manufacturers default . Peace of mind for £80 a month I think is worth it given it cost £23k to repair last time !

'They' is the warranty company providing LR extended warranty , Car Plan I think but I could be wrong as the paper work hasn't come through yet . Their claims department phoned back after I queried as to whether it would cover the crank given it's a known manufacturers default and the above is what they came back with . They did say if for some reason LR hadn't fitted the updated crank in the new engine then LR would cover via goodwill due to you having extended warranty providing it has lr service etc .
I feel this is a safer way to go rather than chancing it with non LR branded warranty and then trying for goodwill should the 3rd party wiggle out of it .

The other option I almost went for was a new pre reg Velar with the new D300 engine , given the very high WBAC valuation we had it wouldn't have cost much to change giving me 3 years manufacturers warranty albeit in a smaller car MY24 Dynamic SE,MY21 HSE Silver, MY20 SQ7, MY 18 RRS HSE Dynamic , MY 16 RRS Autobiography now gone & MY 2005 Discovery 3 HSE that I will be buried in !