POLL - Who is ON a warranty and who is OFF Warranty (risking it all)

[thenavarro]

I have a 2001 Base Boxster, used to be a 2.7, now it's a 3.2 after my 2.7 spun a rod bearing. I'm going without a warranty right now. I did have an extended warranty with Warranty Direct that cost me about $3,100 or so. It ended up paying out about $17,000 over the life of the warranty, although the last $12,970 something took about 14 months and arbitration for me to get.

Mike

[944boy]

2005 Base Bought in June
63,000 miles

No Warranty

I do all my work myself, If I get bored after my 944 is up and running I may even build a spare flat-6 just for the hell of it.

[coreseller]

2002 Boxster S , 35k miles, no warranty. If it blew, I'd likely part it out or leave it in the garage to look at while parked next to the C6 ZO6. She's pretty fun and all, my practical side says I could never bring myself to drop $20k into it, just wouldn't make sense to me.

[cvhs18472]

98 Tip with 65K. Bought it with 22K on the clock and turned down a 3 year or 36K warantee for $3600. I am beyond the covered period and ahead $3600. That translates to more HP on the new engine which I would put in. Ed

[Topless]

98, 2.5, 5spd, 78k miles, no payments, no warranty, no fear. Very few unscheduled repairs in 3 1/2 yrs of ownership. I do my own diagnosis and some regular maintenance. My local Econolube does my oil changes now for 20 bux if I supply the oil, filter, crush ring. Not worth my trouble anymore. I also found a good local indy for wrenching stuff I don't care to do. Good to have another set of experienced eyes under the car once a year or so. I just can't stand dealer service.

My car is a weekend toy, joyride, track tool. If I had a serious engine failure there would be no time pressure to fix it so I will weigh my options if and when the time comes. I am over my lust for big horsepower so I may just do a Raby 2.5 spec rebuild and keep it stock. I must admit to taking a little twisted pleasure in driving around GT3s, TTs, 997s, and Vettes in my old, underpowered, POS 2.5L chick car. It is my fatal flaw.

[pbanders]

'03 Boxster w/Tip, 40K, extended warranty from Warranty Direct. Drive the car as I feel it should be driven, all regular maintance. RMS replaced under factory warranty just as it expired. Got my extended warranty because of the reputation of this engine to have catastrophic failures long before it reaches a "normal" rebuild or replacement mileage. For me, "normal" is 150K for top end, 200K+ for bottom end on a well-maintained motor - those figures are minimums for the stock late air-cooled flat 6 Porsche engines that these water cooled motors (with supposedly better reliability) replaced.

If I have an engine failure under my WD coverage, I expect it will be a battle like thenavarro had, but this is a weekend car and I've got plenty of time and energy to get my claim honored. If my WD coverage runs out and the car is still working fine, I'm going to sell it and upgrade to a later model Boxster ('05+).

[Chris02BoxsterS]

'02 Boxster S - 22K miles no warrenty, bought in '07 2nd owner with 20K, RMS done under warrenty by previous owner. Weekend occasional use plus 1 DE where is was heavily thrashed, I expected the brakes would last more than 3 laps on PS2's ... Just installed full Fabspeed exh and Evo intake no dyno #'s yet.