Its so tempting...

DiG said:
Ok, so further to this thread, I thought, why not pay a bit less for the car and use the saved money to buy a warranty.
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Because for a warranty to be actually worth having the car needs to be under 7 or so years old and under about 80k miles. Otherwise the exclusions and customer contributions begin to make the whole excercise pointless.

And this is across your life of ownership - so you need to buy at about 5 years old and 60-70k miles in order to get 2-3 years of no hassle warrantied ownership from the car.

A 5 year old 70k S Class is not £6k.
 
Looking at the warranty wise website, and I may have this wrong, they only seem to require that the car is <100k when you take the warranty out. And it states that there is no mileage limit, so I would only have to but something in the 90k mile mark, which seems to be possible, the quote I gave was for a 90k, 02 S320.
 
fonzee said:
your looking to buy an expensive to run luxury car on mondeo money.

time to face the facts i think!
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Its not that I want to run it on a mondeo budget, its more that I want to try and keep a limit on the cost, if I know roughly how much its going to cost to own over 3 years, I can see if I can afford it or not.

The big problem I'm finding with researching these cars is lots of people say "be prepared for high running costs", "it will cost a fortune to repair" etc, but no one seems to give any real idea as to what that means, how much is a fortune? Its impossible to know exactly, obviously, but most cars you can get a ballpark figure. With these cars I can't seem to find that, the idea behind the warranty is to try and limit the costs.
 
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