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I'm going to be pulling the trigger on a c6 soon and will want a warranty.

I'll be looking at cars between 50k and 80k miles. Both Warranty Direct and Audi Extended warranty I've looked at.

Is there a preference? Audi warranty (limited to 15k miles a year and an excess of £250) is about £1500 a year, whilst warranty direct with a £100 excess is about £950 a year. I was going with the logic the audi extended warranty is preferential as presumably (I've not checked so someone please correct me if I'm wrong) but you have a fault, go to your local audi dealer, they diagnose, they deal with the warranty issue, they fix, and just bill me for the excess, whilst warranty direct (presumably?) I pay in full first, then recover from warranty direct? Seems possibly worth the extra £500 for Audi to have the hassle of dealing with the warranty etc.

Thoughts from you guys greatly appreciated

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Audi, no messing about and simple.

It's more than £1,500 if it's got 60k+ miles as up to that mileage Audi still cover the full parts cost and Mondial labour...

What happens after 60k miles if you took the warranty when it was beneath? Do they still cover everything or do you have to pay a percentage? And is this the same if you bought a 70k mile car and took out the warranty?

No percentage to pay, Audi/Mondial sort that between them.

The best by far aftermarket has been inchcape warranty. I need to ask Ben what other name they ho by. No questions, just a switched on engineer comes out to inspect big issues and understands and signs off there and then.

Mr V10 wrote:Audi, no messing about and simple.

It's more than £1,500 if it's got 60k+ miles as up to that mileage Audi still cover the full parts cost and Mondial labour...

I did some sample quotes. With 15,000 mile cap and £250 excess, and no breakdown cover, it's about £1550 on a 75k mile car. Seems very reasonable. Is Mondial the underwriter?

Currently, yes. But the Audi approved one is changing to an in house VWFS one I believe very shortly which is the same as the extended one. Watch this space.

Doug_S2 wrote:The best by far aftermarket has been inchcape warranty. I need to ask Ben what other name they ho by. No questions, just a switched on engineer comes out to inspect big issues and understands and signs off there and then.

True, quite good value too. There's a one off inspection fee, you can get a 2/3 year one for the price of 12 months Audi IIRC. Inchape would be the only other option.

Mr V10 wrote:Currently, yes. But the Audi approved one is changing to an in house VWFS one I believe very shortly which is the same as the extended one. Watch this space.

I instigated that when I was there

Makes sense, keeps all the dollar in house.

Good work, DK. Hopefully the change is for the better, not that there's anything wrong with the current Mondial setup, from a customer perspective.

Do they cover re-mapped cars?

chris_m wrote:Do they cover re-mapped cars?

What mapping ?

Surely it is detectable? What does the warranty actually cover? For example, if a turbo goes or the box gets smashed, will this be covered and will they not look for a way to wriggle out?