Vauxhall gives warranty for life on its new cars

-Chris-

http://www.am-online.com/news/story/?nID=42902518

Vauxhall has just announced that its cars are now covered by a lifetime warranty from the first day of registration.

The warranty will apply to the first owner of any Vauxhall registered after August 1 2010 and will cover the car until it reaches 100,000 miles, no matter how many years that takes.


A further programme is planned which will enable the second owner of the car to purchase the lifetime warranty.


‘With the Vauxhall Lifetime Warranty, we are making a strong statement of confidence in the quality of our products and a clear intent to provide the very best customer service in the UK,’ said Duncan Aldred, managing director of Vauxhall Motors.


Most mainstream car brands only offer a three-year warranty, while a few, such as Toyota, Hyundai and Kia, offer five or seven years' cover.


The comprehensive new OEM warranty cover includes powertrain, steering system, brake system and electrical equipment throughout the life of the vehicle.


To maintain the Lifetime Warranty, owners simply need to visit a Vauxhall retailer annually for a free vehicle inspection.


"Great design, engineering excellence and innovative thinking come as standard with every new Vauxhall so a lifetime warranty, with its boost to the customer ownership experience, is a natural extension to the appeal of our products,’ added Aldred.

Do you think we'll see this on Opels in Ireland?


Looks like the other manufacturers are upping their game to compete with Kia's 7 year warranty.


Would it make a difference to your purchasing decision? Who do you think'll be next to try something like this?

Cookie_Monster

only up to 100,000 miles. not really a lifetime warranty then is it?

or you could look at it as a pretty damning statement of the company by the company that they only see their cars being able to reach a lifetime max of 100k miles.

-Chris-

100,000 miles or 160,000 kms would probably do the ordinary driver for 7 or 8 years (or more).

It'd be up there with the longest warranties.

EPM

Very handy if you buy a diesel tbh...especially if you buy around town. I presume it would cover DMF's and DPF's or would they be classed as wear and tear items?

They'd really want to have done their sums

-Chris-

I presume if there's a fault in the DPF it'd be covered, but I think that a lot of the DPF problems people experience is down to how they use the car and what they do when the DPF light comes on.

Henry Ford III

LIGHTNING wrote: »

I say Kudos to Vauxhall, you would have to be pretty confident of your product to offer that warranty.

Or maybe desperate?

Andrew33

You can be guaranteed it won't apply here.
Skoda (and probably VW,AUDI,SEAT) offer a 3 year Europe wide warranty that drops to 2yrs on the Irish market. WTF! If that's not discrimination, I don't know what is.

EPM

Andrew33 wrote: »

You can be guaranteed it won't apply here.
Skoda (and probably VW,AUDI,SEAT) offer a 3 year Europe wide warranty that drops to 2yrs on the Irish market. WTF! If that's not discrimination, I don't know what is.

The third year is from the dealer network afaik

Cookie_Monster

also only Vauxhall, or Opel too?

A lot of Vauxhalls sales will be rep mobile Insignia, many which will easily clock up 100k miles in 3 years.

keithclancy

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

also only Vauxhall, or Opel too?

A lot of Vauxhalls sales will be rep mobile Insignia, many which will easily clock up 100k miles in 3 years.

3 years warranty on a rep mobile isnt bad.

Matt Simis

EPM wrote: »

Very handy if you buy a diesel tbh...especially if you buy around town. I presume it would cover DMF's and DPF's or would they be classed as wear and tear items?

They'd really want to have done their sums

Yeah Im thinking it would work well on the OPC models too, gives them a selling point above Audi and BMW when talking about performance specs.
Wonder on the DMF too, a clutch is considered wear and tear, so why not a flywheel?

DMF is considered waer and tear so if it goes after 60K miles and 5 years I couldn't see them covering it under warrenty.

Stevie Dakota

If there is not much in the small print then this is a great move, it would certainly put them near the top of my list when shopping around. That is around 8 years for the average driver and great peace of mind. Lets hope it finds it's way here, eventually....

robtri

I think its a great move by vauxhall and hopefully opel will follow suit.....

100k is a bit low for a lifetime, a 150k miles would be nicer... but i suppose they have to draw the line somewhere and dont want to be maintaining some cars in 20 or 30 years times...

keithclancy

robtri wrote: »

I think its a great move by vauxhall and hopefully opel will follow suit.....

100k is a bit low for a lifetime, a 150k miles would be nicer... but i suppose they have to draw the line somewhere and dont want to be maintaining some cars in 20 or 30 years times...

100,000 miles is loads !!

Theres no pleasing some people, they'd think twice about buying a car with 160,000km on it

Tragedy

Kia's 7year warranty is 93,000 miles.

SV

keithclancy wrote: »

100,000 miles is loads !!

Theres no pleasing some people, they'd think twice about buying a car with 160,000km on it

Well, in Ireland once it passes that 100,000 mile mark that's it..cars are liable to explode at any moment!

keithclancy

Acutally mate sitting across from my has advised that its the 1st owner only, once its sold on that lifetime warranty doesnt apply anymore.

Also has to have FDSH

SV

keithclancy wrote: »

Acutally mate sitting across from my has advised that its the 1st owner only, once its sold on that lifetime warranty doesnt apply anymore.

Also has to have FDSH

Bit of a joke so.

Lifetime warranty..so long as you don't try and pass this on to someone else and agree to our ridiculous dealer prices.

Zonda999

keithclancy wrote: »

Acutally mate sitting across from my has advised that its the 1st owner only, once its sold on that lifetime warranty doesnt apply anymore.

Also has to have FDSH

I think that fair enough really considering the warranty, i think this would really appeal more to the older car buyer who's not too interested in cars and does relatively little mielage, in this scenario, they could get 15 years from this!

Actually vauxhall prices are quite high atm in the uk, this goes some way toward justifying it though. With the amount of vauxhall dealers in the UK, competition is still there

-Chris-

keithclancy wrote: »

Acutally mate sitting across from my has advised that its the 1st owner only, once its sold on that lifetime warranty doesnt apply anymore.

Also has to have FDSH

From the article:

A further programme is planned which will enable the second owner of the car to purchase the lifetime warranty.

It looks like this is being looked into, and I wouldn't expect it to be an issue for another three years or so.
I'm not sure what purchasing the warranty involves though, I'd have presumed the full warranty is paid for in the original purchase price of the car...

keithclancy

Zonda999 wrote: »

I think that fair enough really considering the warranty, i think this would really appeal more to the older car buyer who's not too interested in cars and does relatively little mielage, in this scenario, they could get 15 years from this!

Actually vauxhall prices are quite high atm in the uk, this goes some way toward justifying it though. With the amount of vauxhall dealers in the UK, competition is still there

If they are even around in 15 years with all the recent GM debacle.

stealthyspeeder

Are the VXR models included in this warranty?

RedorDead

Andrew33 wrote: »

You can be guaranteed it won't apply here.
Skoda (and probably VW,AUDI,SEAT) offer a 3 year Europe wide warranty that drops to 2yrs on the Irish market. WTF! If that's not discrimination, I don't know what is.

Not sure about Skoda but I know Audi and VW is a 2 year factory warranty - UK are the only european country to offer 3 as standard but as someone said that is a dealer offer.

Guy:Incognito

-Chris- wrote: »

From the article:



It looks like this is being looked into, and I wouldn't expect it to be an issue for another three years or so.
I'm not sure what purchasing the warranty involves though, I'd have presumed the full warranty is paid for in the original purchase price of the car...

But sure theres 3rd party compnaies doing warranties anyway, so you can already buy a warranty for your 2nd hand car.

Drummerboy08

Its great to see happening IMO. It only means most other mainstream manufacturers will have to follow suit.

Hopefully it will apply to Opel in Ireland too. Opel over here are usually fairly decent when it comes to warranty claims and good will in my experience though, will this have an effect on what they pay out on I wonder...

kasper

its a step in the right direction ,i remember when i was a lot younger it was one year or 12 thousand miles which ever came first

galwaytt

I think you're all missing the point: who'd want an Opel for 100,000k miles ??:p

or

An Opel is for Life, not just for Christmas

kasper

well if it ups the game for the rest of them it will be great , and we wont have to drive an opel for life

-Chris-

galwaytt wrote: »

An Opel is for Life, not just for Christmas

LOL, it's certainly catchier than Wir Leben Autos :D

Cookie_Monster

Yes it is of course a good step and hopefully it force competitors to follow suit. Much better warranties than there used to be, notably Kia and Toyota.

But its still false advertising to say lifetime warranty and then limit it to only 100k miles.

keithclancy

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Yes it is of course a good step and hopefully it force competitors to follow suit. Much better warranties than there used to be, notably Kia and Toyota.

But its still false advertising to say lifetime warranty and then limit it to only 100k miles.

No its not, a cars lifetime is not your lifetime.

These days lifetime is 10 years and 100000 miles.

Also depending how you treat it the life of the car will vary just like people.

Elessar

This is great news. In these recessionary times, longer warranties are obviously more attractive to buyers. It started with KIA and their 7 years, I knew others would follow suit.

Over the next few years I think we'll start to see other manufacturers offering similar in order to compete. Imagine a new BMW or VW with a 100k warranty!

Matt Simis

galwaytt wrote: »

I think you're all missing the point: who'd want an Opel for 100,000k miles ??:p

or

An Opel is for Life, not just for Christmas

Its not all bad!



I look forward to them depreciating badly so I can pick one up on the cheap in a few years.

EPM

galwaytt wrote: »

I think you're all missing the point: who'd want an Opel for 100,000k miles ??:p

or

An Opel is for Life, not just for Christmas

Says the man with the Vectraab:D

bmw535d

i can see alot of people clocking the bejasus out of the mileage on their cars before each annual inspection.

kona

Elessar wrote: »

In these recessionary times!

I hate this phrase so much, as soon as somebody uses it I just lose all interest in what they have to say.
Also technically we are not in a recesssion anymore, and do you really think in 8 years we will still be in the same situation?
Cheaper to buy a car for 1K with a 2 year NCT and scrap it when it breaks and buy a new one. Best case thats 4K in 8 years. Much better Recessionary Times Deal.

SV

Matt Simis wrote: »

Its not all bad!
http://www.babez.de/wp-content/myfotos/opel-insignia-opc/opel-insignia-opc-02.jpg
http://www.motorward.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/opel-insignia-opc-sports-tourer-1.jpg

I look forward to them depreciating badly so I can pick one up on the cheap in a few years.

They are seriously nom!

Mr Benevolent

No way Opel Ireland will do this. They charged my dad e80 for a reverse light switch under warranty. Irritating when I could done it for e10!

unkel

Confab wrote: »

No way Opel Ireland will do this.

Yes they will. It applies to all Opels / Vauxhalls sold in Europe.

BTW this thread has over 1000 views and nobody here has read the small print?????

It does not require full Opel service history (as this would be against EU regulations). It does require an annual free inspection by Opel. It is only valid for the first owner and only up to 160k km

There is a nastier condition though. The cover is only 100% parts and labour up to 50k km. After that it's on a sliding scale down to only 40% cover over 100k km. So the owner still has to pay 60% of the (no doubt fully inflated) main Opel dealer costs...

VolvoMan

galwaytt wrote: »

I think you're all missing the point: who'd want an Opel for 100,000k miles ??:p

or

An Opel is for Life, not just for Christmas

Sure you're not too far off owning one yourself.:p

biko

Customer: Life?
Seller: Yes life!
Customer: my life?
Seller: Er, no...
Customer: The life of the car before I scrap it?
Seller: Er, no....
Customer: 20 years? Like "life in prison"?
Seller: Er, no...
Customer: So, life = a long time?
Seller: Yes, well quite a long time, not too long...

unkel

Well in fairness, it would suit someone doing (very) low miles intending to keep the car for a (very) long time. No other manufacturer offers anything even close.

stealthyspeeder

unkel wrote: »

Well in fairness, it would suit someone doing (very) low miles intending to keep the car for a (very) long time. No other manufacturer offers anything even close.

If I had the money for a VXR8 Barhust S, this would be fantastic news!

dr.fuzzenstein

Will Citroen dare to do that? Usually everything has been replaced on one by the time it reaches 100k.

Stevie Dakota

Surprise, surprise, from yesterdays Irish Times..

Opel has announced a new “lifetime” warranty on new cars sold in some European markets. Unfortunately, the warranty will not be offered to Irish customers for now, but Opel Ireland say they are “evaluating the campaign” in Germany and in the UK, where it applies to Vauxhall cars.

Elessar

Stevie Dakota wrote: »

Surprise, surprise, from yesterdays Irish Times..

Opel has announced a new “lifetime” warranty on new cars sold in some European markets. Unfortunately, the warranty will not be offered to Irish customers for now, but Opel Ireland say they are “evaluating the campaign” in Germany and in the UK, where it applies to Vauxhall cars.

Honestly I'd love to know their excuse.

Stevie Dakota

TBH that kind of response from Opel Ireland would take them off my shopping list once and for all. Idiots.

keithclancy

Elessar wrote: »

Honestly I'd love to know their excuse.

Alot of them aren't looked after and perhaps theres issues with the Dealer Network ?

Isn't the general consensus that people in the UK look after their cars much better than in Ireland ?

Plus alot of Ireland National roads are pothole heaven.

unkel

Stevie Dakota wrote: »

Surprise, surprise, from yesterdays Irish Times..

Opel has announced a new “lifetime” warranty on new cars sold in some European markets. Unfortunately, the warranty will not be offered to Irish customers for now, but Opel Ireland say they are “evaluating the campaign” in Germany and in the UK, where it applies to Vauxhall cars.

Looks like Confab predicted that one right!

Cookie_Monster

Elessar wrote: »

Honestly I'd love to know their excuse.

it costs money