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Smart Shopper Honda Extended Warranties Pricing and Info
3093 messages, Last post on Nov 07, 2009 at 5:06 AM
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I just purchased an 06 civic. I very stupidly just realized that the original sale date of the car to the original owner was 10/05. So, it's actually past the 3 year in-service date to make it eligible to purchase a Honda care warranty. My question is, if I just claim I don't know the vehicle in-service date, can I get away with buying a Honda care warranty? If I didn't have the Carfax report, I don't think I'd have any way of knowing. Is there any chance I'd get away with just checking the "less than 3 years" box? Or, will any dealer I'm buying the warranty from have those records? Or, will any dealer I'm getting the car serviced at have the same records?
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Replying to: ldog01 (Dec 18, 2008 8:06 pm) "I just purchased an 06 civic. I very stupidly just realized that the original sale date of the car to the original owner was 10/05. So, it's actually past the 3 year in-service date to make it eligible to purchase a Honda care warranty. My question is, if I just claim I don't know the vehicle in-service date, can I get away with buying a Honda care warranty? If I didn't have the Carfax report, I don't think I'd have any way of knowing. Is there any chance I'd get away with just checking the "less than 3 years" box? Or, will any dealer I'm buying the warranty from have those records? Or, will any dealer I'm getting the car serviced at have the same records?" I suspect the latter and that the vin# will be your undoing. There's always Warranty Direct although the latter's plan is inferior to HCEW. |
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Replying to: tidester (Dec 09, 2008 4:29 pm) I bought a HC 6year/80k for my Accord 3.5 years back. Never used it. I'm at 60k now - - - paid Ray Laks about $585 online (I'm in CA) for it. What sort of rebate (how much) are we looking at here? Season's best. ez....
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Replying to: ezshift5 (Dec 19, 2008 6:14 am) My understanding is that you can get the refund on the lesser amount between prorated miles and prorated time. In your case, the mileage refund would be (20/80) × $585 = $146.25 versus the time refund (2.5/6) × $585 = $243.75. tidester, host SUVs and Smart Shopper |
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Recently purchased a Honda Certified 2003 Odyssey and think the Extended Warranty I agreed to buy is excessive. The van has 79,000 miles on it so I basically paid $1295 for 21,000 miles or May 2010. Did I get ripped off? I feel like I did ... could I cancel it and get the same bumper-to-bumper coverage somewhere else? Any thoughts/suggestions appreciated.
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Replying to: ldog01 (Dec 18, 2008 8:06 pm) No, when the car is first purchased from a Honda dealer, the in-service date is placed into the Honda database. This is the reason that you can take the car in for repairs to any Honda dealer and they can see from their computer if your car is under factory warranty or not. So when they would try to process your Honda Care request with that VIN number it would immediately be flagged. |
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Replying to: ncleaf (Dec 19, 2008 10:02 am) What company is providing the extended warranty? Since the vehicle has so many miles on it, I think you may have trouble finding a better price. Honda Care doesn't even sell extended coverage if the vehicle is older than 3 years or has more than 36,000 miles.
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Replying to: jet10000 (Dec 20, 2008 2:25 pm)
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Replying to: ncleaf (Dec 22, 2008 6:39 am) Well, I knew Honda Care could be transferred from the original purchaser to a used car buyer. But I didn't know that a dealer could sell the balance of a 7 year, 100,000 mile Honda Care to someone buying a certified used Honda. That's a new one for me. If they were able to do that, make sure you get all of your paperwork from Honda Care. And even though it sounds costly, I don't think you're going to get any coverage for less money because the vehicle has so many miles on it already---there's a higher probability that something could go wrong. |
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