Buying a warrenty worth it?

A 3 month engine and gearbox warranty on a car that is only 4 years old is rather lame. I bet the extended warranty is probably one of those 3rd party insurance warranties from the likes of carprotect or mapfree too.

Read the terms and conditions of the 3rd party warranty especially around the warranty exclusions. These 3rd party warranties usually have plenty of them. Any dealer selling a 4 year old car and only standing over the engine and gearbox for 3 months tells me they don't have much confidence in it either.

Depends. If it's a Japanese or Korean car you won't need a warranty. If it's VAG or GM then you probably will.

But a 3 month warranty on a 4 year old car? I'd be running.

as has been said before .dont think it being a SIMI dealer means everything will be ok - thats like thinking a pub isnt rough cause they are in the Vintners association.

Not necessarily. A garage that only offers 3 months driveline as a rule and pushes 3rd party cover is more likely to be a place that simply doesn't want the hassle of people coming back to them with workshop issues. Make it somebody elses problem is a valid strategy sometimes.

Thread title should be is this car worth buying.

Honestly i'd pass on the idea of a 5 year old A5 with 160k kms in general if the only two warranty options are 3 months in house or a Mapfre style policy. Those are the hallmarks or a dealer who doesn't want to see you again once you are out the front gate.

A recipe to get yourself burnt. That's the sort of car you'd want to be buying from a main dealer with a year or twos good cover on it.

Basically anything that can and will go on that car, particularly if it's an auto box will be a four figure sum to repair and Audi build quality my eye, a nice car to sit in and drive but every link arm and bush will be hanging from it at that mileage unless they've already been done, "motorway mileage" or not. Timing belt due at 210k kms.

If you have a few bob to throw at the car then go ahead. Otherwise, i'd hold off.

Just letting you know they are marking up the price of the warranty. If you are going to get an extended warranty try get it for €300.

€500 is too much imo

Yeah, look they'll go and go, 400k would be no big deal to one but i wouldn't plan on getting next nor near that without one or two big investments.

Mileage isn't a limitation to modern car in my opinion, most will go and go and go if they get any degree of servicing but something like a VAG product will develop an appetite for suspension components as even your older, less complex (i assume well driven) model has shown. That and they are never too far from something expensive letting go.

I mean a car like OP is talking about compared to your own will have adblue which is an entire system of unreliability, 2 EGR coolers, 4 different coolant pumps and infinitely more electronics and control units.

OP's new car may never give a minutes bother and i'm sure plenty dont but to accept 3 months warranty or a **** aftermarket insurance policy designed not to pay out with the mindset that just because the car is still expensive to buy, meaning it must be as dependable as a 90's Toyota Corolla is nothing short of foolish.

If it needs an adblue injector, it'll be a grand, if the radio breaks, that'll be a grand, if an EGR cooler fails, that'll be a grand, if the gearbox control unit fails, that'll be two grand. It's the sort of car that if a dipped headlight stops working it'll be €100, unless it has halongens, which is a sin.

Not saying dont buy it or dont buy one in general they are a nice car, but do protect yourself for as long as possible on an investment that size and let me tell you a 3 month warranty or an option to buy a Mapfre on a car that i assume is fresh off the ferry, that the dealer doesn't know is a discreet advertisement to the fact that they dont do aftersales care.