take a road trip and see me

The only problem with the extended warranty is that they are the worst insurance you can possibly buy. There is a standard warranty on the car for a reason. That reason is that most of the failures, percentage-wise, either happen early in the car's life (i.e. typically a defective part or assembly) or late in the car's life (via normal wear and tear).

This is the bathtub curve. So, by a manufacturer selling an extended warranty which goes up to the middle of the product life, they are guaranteeing thereselves almost pure profit (assuming they engineered the product as they should have). This is true for most any extended warranty for any product.

With that in mind, the 7-800 you guys are looking at is not much in comparison to a 40k car, but the statistics are there that show it will most likely be wasted money. There will be cases where it does save someone money and that could be any or all of you looking at buying these, but the majority of the population who buy them will have bought the extra protection and not needed it.

So, I can't say as I blame you either way, but at least you hopefully can make a more money conscious decision now if you didn't know this info already.

Kenny, u been there a while? August might work for me

i am the top producer here and i'll be around for a long time. the managers are great and we've been the 1st Infiniti dealer on Long Island so 16 years of experience here.

So here's a stupid question, how many people actually get the extended warranty? My family used to get them (chryslers, mitsubishi) and they really came in handy -- got the transmission replaced on our diamante at 99,000 miles for only $50.

But now, esp with japanese cars being more reliable? I haven't got one on my 05 G35X or 06 Accord; I plan on keeping both cars for many years and miles. I'm still debating whether to get one on the 04 530i (or simply trade it in 2 years from now for an 08 530xi). If I were to keep the 530i long-term, I'd probably get an extended warranty for it. Thoughts? Kash

Did you happen to get the Infiniti Certified Pre-owned Limited Warranty for 84months 100k miles? If so, you should check w/ your dealer or Infiniti. They recently (June 06 per my dealer) changed the certified warranty to 3 years from purchase or 100k miles and they bumped my 7yr 100k warranty into that. I bought my car 4/2004 so they tried to rip me off about 2.5 years and 45k miles. He has Infiniti trying to straighten it out. We'll see how it goes.

btw-in 2004 I got this 7yr 100k mile warranty for less than $400 I think. they must have really upped the pricing or I got a good deal from Infiniti of the Palm Beaches.

^^^ wow that is scary

These were the days... What are warranties costing nowadays or newer CPOs?