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Originally Posted by Beartato
I suppose if you're paranoid about catastrophic failure of entire systems then it might make sense to you, assuming your warranty actually covers the issue.
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Powertrain warranties are fairly inexpensive and do tend to cover the powertrain. At a certain scale paranoia has nothing to do with it. It just makes good sense. There were a few well documented incidents of E92M3 engines failing outside of warranty and at the time, a replacement was 50% of the cars value, for some model years, it still is. An extended powertrain warranty cost $1800 at the time of purchase. For some people it makes sense. In the same way if you were to finance with nothing down, the $1.75 a month for GAP insurance is a reasonable decision.
To the point of my post, if one is driving a $15k car, an extended warranty isn't a good decision for the most part and one probably shouldn't be projecting their opinion of extended warranties onto people who drive vehicles worth 4 to 6 times as much.