[kzookid]

Hello,

I am approaching 5 years of ownership in October 2018. I have 46k miles so either I will hit my 50k miles or hit the October timing soon. My question is I understand we have the Powertrain warranty for 10 years or 100k miles but has anyone purchased an extended B2B warranty beyond the 5 year 50k mile limit? I get sales calls from the Warranty companies fishing for business but I have not spoken to them at length.

Has anyone been contacted by Kia for an extension or is our only option a third party.

I appreciate anything anyone has to share.

Thank you.

 

[MadMax]

I purchased mine CPO, had about 9000 on it when I bought it. Powertrain was included with the CPO, but I wanted everything covered, and at the time it was $1600 to add it with zero deductible. This extended the B2B out to 10 year (from original owner purchase date) or 100,000. Note your B2B is actually 60,000, not 50,000. But of course 5 years will be your limiting factor. Anyway, last thing I had replaced was the AC compressor around 55,000 under original W, I'm now above 60k, haven't had anything repaired under that warrantee yet.


I know, not really the answer you were asking, I can't really answer as to weather 3rd party is better over Kia, I just know that with my timing of buying it was a pretty good price, again, with zero deductible was what I wanted. That way I wouldn't sit around with one problem waiting for another so I could get everything fixed under one deductible. That's the racket they get you on....

 

[sh30469]

I got mine on lease for $1k and bought my car out of lease over 1 yr ago. Honestly I would call up your dealer and speak with a loan officer (finance guy?) and see if they can offer you anything. It will be quite a bit more expensive but I thought it was a good piece of mind when I got mine. I think they'll be the only ones able to really answer this question for you.

 

[rmorris7]

I purchased mine CPO, had about 9000 on it when I bought it. Powertrain was included with the CPO, but I wanted everything covered, and at the time it was $1600 to add it with zero deductible. This extended the B2B out to 10 year (from original owner purchase date) or 100,000. Note your B2B is actually 60,000, not 50,000. But of course 5 years will be your limiting factor. Anyway, last thing I had replaced was the AC compressor around 55,000 under original W, I'm now above 60k, haven't had anything repaired under that warrantee yet.


I know, not really the answer you were asking, I can't really answer as to weather 3rd party is better over Kia, I just know that with my timing of buying it was a pretty good price, again, with zero deductible was what I wanted. That way I wouldn't sit around with one problem waiting for another so I could get everything fixed under one deductible. That's the racket they get you on....

I'm in the same boat bought mine CPO and had a few things replaced under the extended warranty like the coils springs and such.

 

[kzookid]

Kia doesn't offer an extended warranty

So in response to an earlier suggestion to contact the dealership, I found that they will sell me a warranty. They have something called a WRAP warranty that takes you to 100k miles with the powertrain warranty. The first quote was $2,250. I told them that I wanted to get to 125k or 150k and they said they can sell that to me but it would be a third party. They also told me that the warranty would qualify for new car warranty coverage because I haven't hit 50k miles yet. He advised me to not go over 50k before purchasing a new warranty or it would put me into a different category.


I spoke with the service department and guess what? They told me to make sure I purchased the warranty from the dealership so I could be sure my repairs would be covered....LOL

 

[sh30469]

It honestly doesn't surprise me that the sales people may not know what will/won't be covered. Call the preferred line and get their take on it, maybe they can give you good info. Honestly, the service techs are the ones that work on it and deal with this stuff a lot more than any sales person would, I would take their advice before sales any day.

 

[MadMax]

I spoke with the service department and guess what? They told me to make sure I purchased the warranty from the dealership so I could be sure my repairs would be covered....LOL

I think their point to be made is that dealing with many "dime a dozen" warrantee companies, many of them deny claims that others will authorize all day long. Usually the OEM extended warrantee is the best bet for that reason. Not always, but most of the time that is good advices.