Leasing doesn't always mean you get warranty without taking out the xtra cover
I think your best only doing a three year lease at max anyway. This means the vehicle will be atleast under the manufacturer warranty.
You have to read the small print of each marques' warranty. Most are 1 year manufacturer's warranty with a 2 year
dealer extended warranty. The 2nd and 3rd year are basically a driveline warranty. It's called a warranty not a guarantee.
If you buy a brand new van and find a bulb out a couple of days later you will find that the warranty doesn't cover bulbs, so you pay for a new bulb and pay to fit it. (If you got it replaced FOC then someone else paid for it on their job card.)
Manufactures sell you the warranty spiel of having peace of mind as it makes it easier for the customer to justify spending all that money. 5 and 7 year warranties aren't worth the paper they are written on tbh. Everything that could go wrong will be classed as 'fair wear and tear' at that stage.
Even within the 1st year you would have difficulty getting warranty on some items, brake pads are one of them unless a faulty brake caliper caused the issue. In the 2nd and 3rd years you might get a clutch repair done on a shared cost basis after much negotiating with the 'factory'. The excuse is often that the workshop factory representative will need to see the job, but won't be in the area for another 2 weeks. Being a window cleaner will make it harder due to the weight we carry and having a towbar on the back will be the final nail in the warranty coffin, even if its never been used. And you will hear that a clutch failure is unheard of these days on these models. Our vans would mostly have a low mileage so they will argue we do a lot of stop start. Factory workshop reps have a warranty budget and they get paid a bonus on how much they save.
Of course if the manufacturers are forced into a recall, then the factory is forced to pay for the complete rectification cost no matter what the age or mileage of the vehicle is. Van's for some reason don't seem to get many recalls.
The salesman gets paid a good commission on selling extended warranties for total peace of mind, most of which were meaningless in that the cover the buyer thought he got and what he actual received were 2 totally different things. I honestly believed that most extended warranties were sold by sales people who had no idea what they were selling and probably didn't care either.
BTW in all my days in the motor trade I didn't sell one extended warranty because they were worthless as far as I was concerned. My reputation in the commercial business sector meant more to me as customer trust meant repeat business and recommendations.
And please don't get me started on the anti-perforation warranty joke.
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