GM Extended Warranty Term Clarification
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GM Extended Warranty Term Clarification
I am getting ready to purchase the GM Extended Warranty. Am I correct that if I purchase the 8 year term, I am essentially adding 5 years to the original 3 year bumper to bumper and 3 years to the original power train warranties? This way I have an 8 year full warranty from my purchase date?
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Not exactly. It depends on when you purchase the plan. If you wait until the 36 month warranty is about to expire then you get the full 8 year term in your example as it starts on the day you purchase it. Just make sure you purchase at least a month in advance of the 3/36 expiration as pricing increases after that. I bought mine at 32 months into the bumper to bumper so essentially that equates to 92 months of coverage - after 3/36 expiration.
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yes this is why many people wait to buy the warrenty until right before the bumper to bumper expires rather than at the time of car purchase. Costs a bit more but your not wasting the first three years.
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Yes, it starts from the date you purchase it and adds the term of the warranty to your coverage.
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Because it is so cheap thinking about what it does and does not cover never enters my mind. I buy it to extend coverage of primary systems like the DCT and Engine. The best part? Get a refund for any months of coverage you do not use. Purchased the GMPP (at that time) when it was already 4 years old and out of the 3/36. Even with that it only cost me $1800 for 8 years at the time, drove the car for 4 years, sold it and received a refund of $900 back.
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GMPP is nice because it's almost B2B (mainly exclusions for normal wear). When I bought my 23 70th Z06 HTC earlier this year, I added the 7yr/56K $0 deductible for ~$2500 (thanks to Todd for pricing, which the selling dealer matched). Even though I got it CPO with 1-year B2B, it was well worth it to go ahead and add the GMPP before the factory B2B expired. For a car as complex as the C8, especially the Z06 variant, I'm not sure I'd want to own one that didn't have a warranty on it. And that's having had 10 Corvettes before the C8 that all of them I owned out of warranty.
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I’d highly recommend shopping around for the GMPP extended warranty before your factory coverage expires. Prices can vary widely by dealer, and you could end up saving thousands of dollars for the exact same coverage.
Take a few minutes to search for high-volume GMPP warranty dealers—you might be surprised by what you find.
Best part: GMPP is honored at all GM dealers, so you’re good to go.
Take a few minutes to search for high-volume GMPP warranty dealers—you might be surprised by what you find.
Best part: GMPP is honored at all GM dealers, so you’re good to go.
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I bought my 23 new. I waited to purchase the GM extended through Todd until just 60 days prior to the expiration date. This effectively gave me five more years full c overage for $1300. Cost to repair are extremely high these days if anything goes wrong it’s great and if nothing goes wrong that’s even better. My Valentine radar with mount and installed cost me the same thing. If you buy it and never use it so much the better but knowing it’s there if needed is quite comforting.
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Actually, you can choose to have the coverage start as of the vehicle In-Service Date OR the date and current miles when you purchase the protection plan. You have to select the "Wrap" option to have it start on the In-Service Date. If you don't choose the "Wrap" option, coverage starts at the mileage and date at the time you purchase the plan.
I don't know why anybody would choose the "Wrap" option.
Unless Wrap Coverage is selected above, this Agreement begins on the Agreement Purchase Date and at the Current Odometer Reading and ends when the months indicated for the Agreement Coverage
Term is reached, or when the additional miles indicated for the Agreement Coverage Term are registered on the odometer, whichever occurs first. If the Wrap Coverage is selected above, this Agreement
expires when the months indicated for the Agreement Coverage Term is reached as measured from the Manufacturer’s In-Service Date, or when the odometer reaches the mileage indicated for the Agreement
Coverage Term, whichever occurs first
Term is reached, or when the additional miles indicated for the Agreement Coverage Term are registered on the odometer, whichever occurs first. If the Wrap Coverage is selected above, this Agreement
expires when the months indicated for the Agreement Coverage Term is reached as measured from the Manufacturer’s In-Service Date, or when the odometer reaches the mileage indicated for the Agreement
Coverage Term, whichever occurs first