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Impureclient · 03-03-2016, 07:48 PM

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this but I just want the affirmation I am correct in what I want to do.
I bought a 15' certified from Toyota in April of last year. It had almost 4k miles on it. Since then I have put another 3k on it. I will probably not hit 4k total for the year I've had it.
The car came with the 3 year bumper to bumper. The powertrain is 7 year/1000,000 miles. I bought an extended warranty that covered in bumper to bumper for the 7 years.
Now reading about the warranty afterwards in detail, I understand that 7 applies to when the car was from the first use as sold new so I have probably still like 5.5 years of powertrain
and the extended warranty would push the bumper to bumper out to the same 7 years.
So I am driving this car about 4k a year and the end of the next 5.5 years til that warranty ends I will have only put about 30k miles on the car total. Even being optimistic and saying I put 50k on it, that still is nothing.
So it doesn't really seem to make sense on having to pay $1k for adding on a couple years of a bumper to bumper when the powertrain is where the big money would be in repairs anyway.
I asked my dealer if I starting modding and they kind of gave the ambiguous answer that they just cross that road when they get there and if a repair is related to the modification then it's not covered.
Now I am sure I'm not going FI and a header/oft and the final drive would be the most I'd be doing. A guy at Toyota said to just flash it back to stock if anything arises but the header would be a little pain
to swap out if anything did happen that I know is unrelated but wanted them to keep their nose on what the problem really is and not blame any mods for any reason they could come up with.
It seems like doing the final drive is sleeper enough that even the dealer wouldn't know it was done and most likely even if they knew they probably couldn't attribute any major engine or transmission problems for changing the gears.
So in keeping the car stock, it doesn't seem to make sense to even have that bumper to bumper as $1k can do a lot of repairs that I could do myself that weren't covered by the powertrain warranty.
The modding of the car makes the extended totally useless since it's a gamble that they'll just play games later if something happens and I'd be out the extra $1k.
Does all that compute to just cancelling the extended 7 yr bumper to bumper either way?

03-03-2016, 07:48 PM	#1
Impureclient Banned Join Date: May 2015 Drives: 2015 FR-S Location: NPR, Florida Posts: 2,404 Thanks: 1,802 Thanked 2,903 Times in 1,282 Posts Mentioned: 25 Post(s) Tagged: 2 Thread(s)	Extended warranty dilemna I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this but I just want the affirmation I am correct in what I want to do. I bought a 15' certified from Toyota in April of last year. It had almost 4k miles on it. Since then I have put another 3k on it. I will probably not hit 4k total for the year I've had it. The car came with the 3 year bumper to bumper. The powertrain is 7 year/1000,000 miles. I bought an extended warranty that covered in bumper to bumper for the 7 years. Now reading about the warranty afterwards in detail, I understand that 7 applies to when the car was from the first use as sold new so I have probably still like 5.5 years of powertrain and the extended warranty would push the bumper to bumper out to the same 7 years. So I am driving this car about 4k a year and the end of the next 5.5 years til that warranty ends I will have only put about 30k miles on the car total. Even being optimistic and saying I put 50k on it, that still is nothing. So it doesn't really seem to make sense on having to pay $1k for adding on a couple years of a bumper to bumper when the powertrain is where the big money would be in repairs anyway. I asked my dealer if I starting modding and they kind of gave the ambiguous answer that they just cross that road when they get there and if a repair is related to the modification then it's not covered. Now I am sure I'm not going FI and a header/oft and the final drive would be the most I'd be doing. A guy at Toyota said to just flash it back to stock if anything arises but the header would be a little pain to swap out if anything did happen that I know is unrelated but wanted them to keep their nose on what the problem really is and not blame any mods for any reason they could come up with. It seems like doing the final drive is sleeper enough that even the dealer wouldn't know it was done and most likely even if they knew they probably couldn't attribute any major engine or transmission problems for changing the gears. So in keeping the car stock, it doesn't seem to make sense to even have that bumper to bumper as $1k can do a lot of repairs that I could do myself that weren't covered by the powertrain warranty. The modding of the car makes the extended totally useless since it's a gamble that they'll just play games later if something happens and I'd be out the extra $1k. Does all that compute to just cancelling the extended 7 yr bumper to bumper either way?