truck warranties

Keep your money. There are lots of stories on TTR about aftermarket warranties only being good for expensive toilet paper. The house always wins and they are not in the business to lose money. They'll weasel out of paying anything at all in most cases. If you want a decent warranty buy new otherwise your own $15-$25K maintenance stash will warranty about any problem you could have.

 

When you file a claim they want to see all preventative maintenance receipts you have. If they see you skipped oil changes or delayed maintenance at the manufacturers recommended schedules, they will not pay your claim.

A basic plan is about $3k. The turbo is additional costs to add to the plan, around an extra $500 I think. If you have a late model emissions with EGR and DPF it is extra also.

Thats the last figures I've been quoted.

 

There you go. Now search for some real world on how they avoid paying for anything. If you don't have a bankroll to fund the unexpected you are not ready to own a used truck. There are no free rides. You may allow yourself and your equipment to be used in that manner but any shop out there wrenching on it expects to make money on every job. So throw $3,000+ away on a gimmick aftermarket warranty or save yourself some money and pay out of pocket. Educate yourself and DIY on everything possible will always be the cheapest.

 

What was said above is true. Assuming they will pay a claim, they wont until it breaks. For me, if my engine is showing signs it needs an inframe, ill do an inframe and not wait untill it blows on the side of the road. None of the preventive inframe would be covered. If your a responcible o/o doing preventitive maintance, the warenty will never pay out a dime, because you fixed it before it broke.

 

Dam if you do... Dam if you don't...

 

I remember when I was a kid, my dad and uncles were always wrenching on their trucks change tires whole nine yards. When was last imte you saw a driver chaning a tire?

 

Several weeks ago when I did my drives haha! Not often that's for sure. A penny saved is a penny earned.

 

Turns into work real quick but does save that money. Do as much as I can myself, figure when I do it I'm making what? $60-70 per hour?

 

Really made nothing at all but at least I didn't pay someone else $25 a tire to do it. I also did it on my own scheduled downtime and didn't have to waste time during the working hours of my normal driving week to wait 3-6 hrs for some shop out there. Not having to waste more time finding a load to route thru it probably missing something really good in the process. Or driving deadhead miles somewhere to have it done. So it was more than labor on the tires I saved but nobody cut me a check when I finished :-/ lol