Car Warranty Help, Please!!

[keerymom]

Hi everyone,

Hoping someone can offer me some advice. We bought a car last summer that still had the remainder of a 3yr/36,000 warranty. We’ve got about 35,700 miles on it now. This is the first car we’ve owned with a warranty. The car seems to be in very good working order (the power doors sometimes give us a tiny bit of grief – I guess par for the course). Do most people bring in the vehicle to at least be looked at before the warranty expires? I hate to sound totally ignorant about this.

Thanks for any advice!

 

[Shmily1]

If there is anything I have a complaint or question about, I take it before the warranty runs out. I've even taken one in for a rattley air conditioner vent. Anything you get fixed now, won't cost you but later it will so take it in for those doors

 

[Christine]

If there are no known/suspected problems, I'm not sure what good it will do you. Generally, warranty work covers things that have failed. If you take it in just to have it "looked at" unless something has failed (which you would more than likely know about), no warranty work will be accomplished.

It probably won't hurt you to have it looked at and some minor maintenance. Maybe they will find something, but you will still be stuck paying the bill for the inspection and any routine maintenance.

 

[jen0610]

Hi everyone,

Hoping someone can offer me some advice. We bought a car last summer that still had the remainder of a 3yr/36,000 warranty. We’ve got about 35,700 miles on it now. This is the first car we’ve owned with a warranty. The car seems to be in very good working order (the power doors sometimes give us a tiny bit of grief – I guess par for the course). Do most people bring in the vehicle to at least be looked at before the warranty expires? I hate to sound totally ignorant about this.

Thanks for any advice!

We had a power window that while it worked, it was a lot slower then the other 3 windows. We were coming up on the end of our warranty period, so we took it in and had them look at it.

They said they couldn't find anything wrong with it, but they did spray the trim out ( ) and said it should make it raise and lower smoother. It didn't do anything that we could see, it still moved slower than the other 3 windows.

2 months later and 3500 miles over the warranty, wanna take a guess on what window STOPPED working at all??? Took it back in and they found that it had a bad track and lever system and that it also wasn't getting the power feed it needed. They fixed it all for nothing, as we had previously brought it in and they missed finding the issue.

So since you already know there is an issue with the door, take it in and get atleast that fixed. You never know, they might find something else for you.

 

[tvguy]

If there are no known/suspected problems, I'm not sure what good it will do you. Generally, warranty work covers things that have failed. If you take it in just to have it "looked at" unless something has failed (which you would more than likely know about), no warranty work will be accomplished.

It probably won't hurt you to have it looked at and some minor maintenance. Maybe they will find something, but you will still be stuck paying the bill for the inspection and any routine maintenance.

Without a specific problem, they'll probably charge you for the inspection.

 

[bettymae1121]

I had my driver power window start to make a loud grinding noise. It still worked but clearly there was a problem so I took it in and they fixed it, no questions asked, since it was under warenty. If you are having a specific problem with it (it still works but makes a funny noise, or works some days but not others) that should be enough for them to at least look for a problem without charging you for it. If you just take it in without a stated problem for the car, then I'm betting they'll charge you an inspection fee.

 

[daughtersrus]

Hi everyone,

Hoping someone can offer me some advice. We bought a car last summer that still had the remainder of a 3yr/36,000 warranty. We’ve got about 35,700 miles on it now. This is the first car we’ve owned with a warranty. The car seems to be in very good working order (the power doors sometimes give us a tiny bit of grief – I guess par for the course). Do most people bring in the vehicle to at least be looked at before the warranty expires? I hate to sound totally ignorant about this.

Thanks for any advice!

Do you mean the power locks, automatic door or power windows?

 

[keerymom]

Do you mean the power locks, automatic door or power windows?

They're the automatic sliding doors on a minivan. They normally work fine, it's another story though when it's very cold out.

 

[Dan Murphy]

If you can find or know of anything wrong now, get it fixed now. That door, on your ticket, could very well be a thousand dollars, you never know.

Good wishes going forward, many safe and trouble-free miles for you in the future.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

They're the automatic sliding doors on a minivan. They normally work fine, it's another story though when it's very cold out.

Then get it looked at.

 

[tvguy]

They're the automatic sliding doors on a minivan. They normally work fine, it's another story though when it's very cold out.

I can only imagine how expensive those would be to fix. Our neighbor had a minor accident with her minivan with the manual sliding door and they totaled the car because it is so hard to realign everything if it gets bent.

You will also notice you can't get sliding doors on full sized vans other than the 1/2 ton models (like the Ford 150). In commericial use they just don't hold up, so you can't get them on 3/4 and 1 ton vans (such as the Ford 250 or 350). We actually had one of those doors fall off one of our older vans......on the freeway...at 70 miles and hour. Of course the van had several hundred thousand miles on it, and with all the use the frame started to flex, and the door popped off it's tracks. They totaled out the van.

 

[daughtersrus]

If you can find or know of anything wrong now, get it fixed now. That door, on your ticket, could very well be a thousand dollars, you never know.

Good wishes going forward, many safe and trouble-free miles for you in the future.

I'd get them looked at. It could be as complicated as something electrical and that can really add up if it's out of warranty.