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Old 12-05-2014, 02:52 PM   #24
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I bought the extended warranty on my last two vehicles: a used '01 Echo I bought back in '04 and when we bought my wife her new '08 Yaris at the end of '07.

I did not make back what either of the warranties cost. The Echo had the driver's side power lock break - you could still lock it manually, it just wouldn't work with electric button. That was five hundred bucks but covered and I'm sure I could have had it done for less anywhere besides the dealer.

My wife's Yaris had the rear shock blow out about two months before the end of the warranty and they covered that. It was six or seven hundred at the dealer but obviously I could have replaced that myself for MUCH less.

All that is to say, I didn't buy it on the FR-S. Modern cars will nearly always either be bad from the start or good for their lifetime. If you've made it to 36k without issues, it's far more likely you'll be good for as long as you want to drive it (certainly well past the 100k mark anyway).
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