GM to cut powertrain warranty, and free maintenance

[PenguinLTZ]

Looks like I got in the last deal

General Motors plans to cut its powertrain warranty on Chevrolet and GMC vehicles for the 2016 model year, concluding that its standout offer of 100,000-mile coverage -- in place for nearly a decade -- wasn't a strong enough selling point.

The five-year/100,000-mile powertrain coverage -- once touted by former GM CEO Rick Wagoner as a symbol of the improved quality of GM's vehicles -- will be reduced to five years/60,000 miles for '16 models. The brands will continue to offer courtesy transportation and roadside assistance during the coverage period.

GM also will scale back its offer of two years of free maintenance, including oil changes and tire rotations, on most new Chevy, GMC and Buick vehicles. The brands, which began the free-maintenance deal for model year 2014, will reduce the number of free service visits to two, from four, starting with '16 models.

Both changes were announced in a memo sent to dealers on Wednesday.

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Honestly, the warranty reduction means nothing to me; I will likely never hit 60K with this truck in 8 years (unless I take this job back in the lower 48)

I would not have used the free maint on a new gasser, but I will burn it up on the diesel, maybe.

Don't turn this into a GM bash.

 

[Darkanion]

I guess I better get a '15 then!

 

[mr_bots]

I never really worried about it. My family's experience has been it's defective and breaks before 36k or it lasts a long time. Same with the free maintenance, I've seen the idiots they have at dealerships changing oil and it takes them forever.

 

[1BADSS396]

I would never buy any vehicle without an extended warranty again, especially a GM vehicle. I even bought one for the wife's Honda. My truck is the last vehicle I will own without one. the one on the wife's old 2004 Impala paid for itself several times over. Live and learn.

The 5yr/100K warranty was a joke anyway. Most people hit the 5 yr mark way before 100K miles.

 

[PenguinLTZ]

Extended warranties are the biggest waste of money I can imagine, unless you are putting on 30k a year. I have lost count of my new or in-warranty vehicle purchases. My only regrets are paying for that stupid warranty when I was younger.

A newer diesel chock full of the latest emissions bullshit is the exception, I only know this because I have sold some 8 thousand dollar DPFs and DOCSs to some angry customers.

I will likely make mine disappear on 1 day past 60 months

 

[1BADSS396]

I paid $800 (1/2 price from what they originally were asking for it) for the 7yr/75K mile warranty on my wife's 2004 Impala. They spent roughly 10X that in claims after the 3/36 expired. Including a new transmission at 74,995 miles (no, I am NOT kidding...)

That $800 saved me thousands of $$$

 

[mr_bots]

$800 isn't bad. Pretty much one thing breaks and it'll pay for itself. I guess we've just had good luck overall and haven't had one that would have justified an extended warranty, though we also ditch cars if they start having problems and I have yet to keep something more than four years.

 

[PenguinLTZ]

$800 isn't bad. Pretty much one thing breaks and it'll pay for itself. I guess we've just had good luck overall and haven't had one that would have justified an extended warranty, though we also ditch cars if they start having problems and I have yet to keep something more than four years.

No doubt. Mine are always $2500 plus

The diesel plans are insane.

 

[daddy]

I paid $800 (1/2 price from what they originally were asking for it) for the 7yr/75K mile warranty on my wife's 2004 Impala. They spent roughly 10X that in claims after the 3/36 expired. Including a new transmission at 74,995 miles (no, I am NOT kidding...)

That $800 saved me thousands of $$$

I dropped about $1100 on the wife's Jetta and had the trans replaced just a few hundred shy of it running out.

 

[1BADSS396]

I paid $800 (1/2 price from what they originally were asking for it) for the 7yr/75K mile warranty on my wife's 2004 Impala. They spent roughly 10X that in claims after the 3/36 expired. Including a new transmission at 74,995 miles (no, I am NOT kidding...)

That $800 saved me thousands of $$$

I dropped about $1100 on the wife's Jetta and had the teams replaced just a few hundred shy of it running out.

The teams?