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Originally Posted by Flarpswitch
General maintenance I do myself. For the warranty work and anything requiring special tools, I will defer to the dealer. Although I am capable of disassembling the entire car to its individual components and putting all back together, I would rather pay someone else to do the heavy lifting and kick back and read a magazine.
Without digging into the service records and receipts, I would have to say that for what I have paid for extended service and what it saved in dollars and convenience, it is about a wash. Of course, it only takes one incidence of a major failure to make it well worth while.
Another thought is that I am more likely to keep this BRZ long term. Looking at the auto industry and the people who are trying to suck the last remaining bit of soul out of owning any kind of sporty car, I think this is the last hurrah. I'm 72 and all my friends are too banged up to be able to get into my BRZ gracefully. Just as well; I would rather they not be farting into my seat cushions.
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like you said, sort of a wash. given the situation, i'd lean towards the recommendation of getting one. i don't have an extended warranty on this brz, i did on my first one, and my tacoma has an extended warranty. knock on wood, nothing major has needed it.
if something major fails, it'll be worth arguing with them over it and proving the service history(without the dealer service record, they're more apt to deny it initially until you can come up with your service history records). but anything minor, up until this point i've owned mostly $1,000 clunkers, so i'm used to dealing with my own messes...