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Replying to: pf2001 (Jan 22, 2007 10:47 am)  For me, I look at the mileage side (100,000 total) as that is more like 5 years for me. 
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Replying to: xwesx (Jan 22, 2007 11:01 am) 
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Replying to: pf2001 (Jan 22, 2007 11:42 am) One of the really good benefits of the Gold plan (and the like) is that you do not have to pay for the repair and then seek re-imbursement from a third party insurer. I have had difficulty (in the past, with third-party insurers) trying to find the insurer and getting full payment proved to be impossible. With the Subaru warranty, all you pay for the covered repair is the deductable. As good as I believe that the Subaru is, I am virtually certain that some of the electronics will fail within seven years of my original purchase. These days most electronic elements cannot be fixed, and the replecement costs are rather steep. I am so sure something will break that I went with the $0 deductable. Extended warranties are one of those things that have a good outcome either way ... either nothing goes wrong (which is good) or something does go wrong and you are (fortunately) covered. If you sell the car prematurely, you can transfer the warranty (or, apparently, be reimbursed on a proration basis). DB
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Replying to: dbiker (Jan 22, 2007 3:14 pm) Indeed... They are really a win-win in the "peace of mind" department. Especially in terms of resale, it can add quite a bit to the value as the buyer does not have to inherit and pay for any little gremlin that might (and probably will) arise. I see quite a few Subarus being sold near 100K miles (so, low to mid 90s) probably for this exact reason. It is the ones at 105/110K that I worry about. I have to wonder if the owners did not have an extended warranty, or if they have the "dreaded" head gasket failure and are just outside of the extended warranty period. Or, maybe it is just coincidence and I should not read so much into it! 
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| I needed the a/c almost completely replaced on my 98 Legacy which had the Subaru Gold warranty. Also had several hundred dollars work on 2 electric radio antennas going out and one oil leak and a few sundry items. that was well worth it, on the other hand I had a 92 which needed a few new sensors etc but it all happened after the ext warranty ended!! | |
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Greetings. We're thinking of the Subaru Gold Plus plan for our recently purchased '07 Outback. From reading lots of posts it seems this plan will give us the peace of mind we'd like for this car. This will be the first car we've ever purchased an extended for--these contraptions are just getting too damned complicated! Anyway I was wondering about proof of oil changes. I've always changed my own oil and filter, do my own tune-ups and such. (I don't trust anyone else to change the oil because I know I do a better job and I won't drive the car off the lift with zero oil or drain the front differential by mistake etc...) So if somehow the engine on this car develops a problem down the road, and the dealer doesn't see all my oil changes in his records because I did them myself every 4K miles, do I risk not having the engine problem covered under the extended warranty? Is there some standard of record keeping I can conform to such as keeping receipts for every quart of oil and oil filter purchased? Thanks, Vinnie
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Replying to: vinnie07 (Feb 25, 2007 12:18 pm) 
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Replying to: xwesx (Feb 25, 2007 9:11 pm) I have a 3 ring binder and print out all my entries for my.subaru.com, and so I have nice, neat records for the buyer when I eventually sell it. -juice
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Replying to: ateixeira (Feb 26, 2007 10:13 am) I had my '96 registered there since about 130K miles (Maybe early 2003?), so it had nearly 100K worth of entries. Not that it matters for that car, considering it is a mangled hulk now, but one would hope that is not the fate of all my cars - at least not while I own them! 
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Replying to: xwesx (Feb 26, 2007 11:41 am) Did you know that even dealers cannot look up that info? -juice
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