so here are questions for everyone who brought or want extended warranties

[SWAMechFRS]

First year car, daily driver and plans to track it? Hell yes I extended the warranty out to 6 yrs 125k for $1500. No brainer.

[kndonlee]

Originally Posted by soconfoozed

I didn't buy the extended warranty for a couple of reasons.

Firstly, I could tell the saleswoman was trying to hustle me, and I just didn't appreciate that, so if I do buy, it'll be elsewhere.

Secondly, there's just no data on the BRZ. Nobody knows what to expect, so it's really difficult to weigh the pros and cons of extended coverage and make an informed decision.

As it was explained to me, you can wait until you have 1,000mi or 1mo left on your Subaru warranty to purchase the Subaru extended warranty. It's a $150 adder per year/12(?)k you put it off. My strategy is going to be to wait at least a year, and then to both see what my usage and reliability are like, and see what's happening for others. "Spending" $150 to make a decision with more data seems worthwhile to me.

No data equals a higher risk factor. It is not unknown risk. Unknown risk is the worst kind of risk as it means any kind of disaster is on the table. First gen anything will always equate to a higher risk than more mature products.

Everything may be ho hum, and then we may realize there's a nasty engine bug that creeps in at 35k.

This is not to say that Toyota and Subaru's credibility for building solid lasting cars doesn't make a difference. The prior engineering experience definitely alleviates significant risk factors if we can presume that the half-million-mile reliability engineering team (philosophy & principle) was also behind the FRS. We would all like to believe that that same expertise is also applied to the rest of the brand's fleet, but the truth is that there is turnover, company politics, opposing philosophies that drive the development of a product in many directions. The hope is that each iteration is better than before, but its not always the case.

In the end we all choose to live with different risk factors and some are lucky and others not so much.