Hi everyone -

The dealership tried to sell this to me when my lease expired and I said no. A year later, after replacing a wheel bearing and being told that the rail on the driver's seat was broken ($1K+ to fix), the service advisor suggested I buy the warranty and then get the seat repaired. The cost of the repair will go a long way to covering the cost of the warranty, and then I'm good for the other small but co$tly repairs that look to be inevitable based on this forum.

Any thoughts or experience with this? Is the Infiniti warranty the way to go, or is there an alternative?

Your help would be appreciated!

Mark

 

Dont think about it, just do it! The price is well worth it!

 

If they will write down that they will fix the seat issue AFTER you purchase the warranty I would do it.

I have never bought an extended warranty, I think most DIY types dont becasue we like to ....DIY

 

i would buy.. but get a discount on that warranty...
ur CD player will go soon too.. and ur valve cover probalby leaks in the spark plug hole.. haha

 

Better make sure the warranty will cover the seat repair. I bought an extended warranty for my G and it was a total total waste. Never used it once over 3 years.

What's exactly wrong with your seat? Is it rocking?

 

For the seat, I think that is a common issue. Not sure what yours is doing, but mine only moves forward on one side. A dealer quoted me $950, then I came to the forums, and it turned out to be a $3 gear that needed replacing. I have not gotten around to it, so I cannot say for sure, but that's worth becoming a DIY guy.

Do you like to... do it... yourself?

 

Definitly negotiate the price, they are negotiable.
I am a do-it yourself type of person and I bought one with my G just incase. So far im only about $800 in the hole, but ive only owned it for 9 months.
Last spring it paid for an new AC clutch assembly and pulley. The Infiniti dealership was also able to get all the belts replaced as well ($300 job). I was dreading replacing all the belts (67k at the time), but now I dont have to worry...Got new belts, pulley, and clutch assembly all covered.

 

Thanks for the replies. How negotiable is it? They quoted approx $1,500 for 12 mos and $2000 for 24.

 

I paid $1500 for 3/36

 

Extended warranties only seem like a good deal because of the over-inflated, jacked-up prices the dealer gives you.

$1000 to fix a seat rail? Not hardly. You can EASILY pick up a nice set of coupe seats for that, and be upgrading from stock... or, just diy it for around $20... or take it apart and have a shop weld it for still far less than $1000.

Or how about the radio? Yes, it will probably fail sooner or later, but what would you rather do: spend money on an extended warranty, not knowing if you're going to use it or not? Or put that money in a savings account so that if and when your radio does break, you can replace it with something really nice, instead of letting them put in a rebuilt unit that will eventually break again?

I'm really glad I've spent what I have on making the car better, instead of worrying about things that haven't been a problem.

 

If you buy based upon dealership prices,....you deserve to waste the money. Thats like paying the asking price of a vehicle at a stealership.
I am less than one year into mine and ive reaped half what it cost me so far. I have two years to get the rest of my money worth.

 

$300 for a belt replacement That's about up there with a $600 front axle brake job for these cars. For the belts, 45 minutes of your time, $60 worth of OEM belts, and a standard socket set will do a belt job on these cars. Dealerships are hilarious. Since cars have gotten far more reliable over the past 20 years, the shops need to make money still so the parts prices have gotten out of control and the book times on simple jobs have doubled or tripled.

It really does pay to have a decent set of tools, ramps, jacks, stands, a $120 OBDII scanner on your laptop, and the field service manual. Over the past 10 years, I've saved myself thousands doing work myself on my all my cars and also trouble shooting friends cars. It's also shocking how qualified and trained techs completely lack the ability or desire to trouble shoot. Instead, the replace parts and see what happens.

 

$300 to replace belts??

a shop would charge way less, its very easy on these cars

 

Thats a bad way to think about that.

 

infinti quoted me $200 for new belts....and then made it sound like they were gonna snap off any day now and insisted it NEEDED to be done ASAP.


$45 later and 45 mins later i did it myself.....30K miles after this ASAP date


Their 4X4 service is funny too. They charge $300 for it or something like that. I did it for $40 in fluids, and a $10 pump. Was so easy, even a cave-man can do it.

I didn't spring for the extended warranty...1 year later everything is good so far (knock on wood)