I'm going to haggle with my dealership over the extended warranty tomorrow morning.
Can someone answer this?

The MaxCare, purchased on line from Jeep.com is $1,440 for 72 months/70,000 miles. (I live close to work. 70k is enough)

I figure the dealer will want $2,000 or more for the same thing.

Can anyone explain (beside the American profit motive) the possible difference?
Have you bought the one directly from Chrysler? Were their hidden costs that drove up the price?

Thanks

 

I purchased the lifetime warranty and am now having second thoughts. I'm gonna call the warranty dept and get clarification on weather or not ill be covered after my mods. Plus I'm gonna get it in writing. If not I'm gonna say cancel it. The Jeep comes with a 5 year 100k from the factory so that should be plenty.

 

Just to give you some perspective... I paid about $1800 total for my Maxcare Lifetime service contract/warranty.
So far I've paid 5 deductables... $100.00 each... And thier grand total is around $10,000... I have about 93,000 miles on my Jeep... I feel like I'm doing fairly well..

 

Yes, but that's just the power train. Bumber-to-bumper is only 36 months/36,000 miles.
The MaxCare covers everything (almost) for the additional period of the warranty.

In many cases buying a warranty is a waste of money. But replace a major A/C part one time and it's paid for itself.
It's a gamble but I figure something major will break in 7 years.

 

Most GAP and insurance products have a 100% mark-up in them.


So a warranty they sell you for $2000, costs them around $1000. At least that is how it is in the power sports industry. I'm pretty sure cars are the same.

 

Interested to hear about this too... I never buy the extended warranty, but then again I've been prone to Japanese cars with few, if any issues. Not sure if I'm willing to roll the dice on the Jeep warranty or not.

 

Maxcare is the only one worth buying, it is actually decent and civers most everything. Any others besides maxcare are garbage, ive seen this first hand.

I bought lifttime maxcare for my wifes 11' for $1500.

She only has 2k on it now.