NTP warranty, Penske Truck

I don't have any experience with NTP but I purchased the premium 2000 warranty when I bought a truck with 435,000 miles and 9 months in they covered a turbo and VGT actuator.

 

Thanks can you tell me turbo and VGT actuator how much those cost without warranty?

 

$6300. I was for a Volvo d13

 

They required maintenance intervals and documents to back it up

 

The deductible for approved after treatment repairs is $500.

 

NTP does not cover actuators. Also, Premium and NTP are one company now.

 

I am inclined not to deal with these kinds of plans. It's almost the Dealer is making a bet something will burn up soon in that truck and somehow its yourn fault. So they offer these plans in which if you go all in (I loved that discrimination against 13 speeds, come on a skilled trucker knows how to shift them...) they stand to rake in thousands of dollars over what you probably are expecting to pay anyway. If you cannot somehow have that purchase price lowered in negotiating to where these additional costs can be included without the dealer making a dollar off it... or you... then maybe.

I bought a truck once, in those days I went over it very carefully and drove it and it was such a sweetheart. Looking back on those old FLD's today I might have gotten 3 years out of it and would have to replace it then. That little kitty was great (425 or so) but not that great when you wheel out the big horsis at 515, 550 on up.

I don't know if I ever want to attempt to buy a truck today because fleets seriously abuse them and throw them away to auction rode hard and put up wet with no love or care lavished on them at all.

 

Used trucks today are a nightmare to get into. Cummins engines have the catastrophic camshaft and fuel pump failures along with the carbon packing issue.

DD engines have the catastrophic over fueling injector failures along with fuel pump failures that put metal through the fuel system. Also, don't forget their chronic and expensive one box failures.

D13 and MP8 engines have the catastrophic gear train failure along with the chronic fuel injector cup and fretted cylinder head failures.

Navistar engines....where do I start?

All of these engines have serious after treatment system issues too. The one-box issue mentioned above, DPFs, EGR system, DEF system, etc.

 

Also, this thread was also about Penske used trucks. Please understand, if these trucks were still making Penske money, then they wouldn't be getting rid of them.

And after you've driven your truck off the lot or had it delivered by Penske, you're on your own.

Good luck trying to contact your salesman when your truck goes into derate on your very first load.

And good luck on getting help from NTP for a "preexisting condition".