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Re: Extended Warranty on 2000 Aero, good idea?
Posted by KevinH [Email] (more from KevinH) on Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:01:22
In Reply to: Extended Warranty on 2000 Aero, good idea?, Patrick, Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:09:35
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That all depends on the car's maintence history. If you've checked out the maintence logs (at minimum the first 30K miles should be logged in Saab's IRIS computer system) that might give you an idea of the car.
In general warantees will cost you money unless something very bad happens e.g. an engine, etc. If you could have gotten the Saab CPO warantee I might have advised you to go with that only because if something goes wrong, you'll have a very easy time at the dealership with that warantee.
Otherwise, I think you might be better off taking the $1500 you might have spent on a warantee and putting it into a CD. If nothing big happens in three years you've saved some $. If not hopefully the $1500+interest can cover the cost. Personally I liked the peace of mind having a warantee gives me - it's worth the $. You might want to ask around which after-market companies have good warantees and will actually cover you (and not fight you tooth & nail) when something goes wrong.
Kevin
p.s.
I bought a 2000 Aero w/ 39K miles 6 months ago and haven't had a single thing go wrong with it and the vehicle now has 51K miles. Exception: the SID display occasionally loses a pixel or two but then fixes itself - this is common to all early 9-5's. Even without a Saab warantee they will probably replace this. I advise you to go into a dealer now and tell them that it's intermitent and have them replace it before 50K under the original warantee. I believe they'll still replace it for free after that because it's such a notorious problem but why wait.
Good Luck
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