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Looking for advice/opinions - Extended Warranty & Maintenance Plan

irontmp

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Hey all! Bought our '22 less than a month ago. The day we purchased it, we were in a hurry to get out of the dealership. I left early and my wife stayed to sign the docs. After getting home and looking over the paperwork, I see we bought the Mechanical Protection Plan including the maintenance. It's 60 months 100k miles for $7500 along with paintless dent, windshield, road side coverage for $1500. I'm used to doing maintenance on our cars as far as oil changes, transmission fluid changes, brakes, etc.

I'm really leaning towards canceling the extra $9k worth of coverage, then as we get closer to the 3 year/36k mile Ford warranty running out, we can shop for an extended warranty at that point. Even if we took in the ST for service a couple times a year, the out of pocket seems to be FAR cheaper than the plan of ford the dealer sold us.

Am I following a logical thought process here? Anything I should consider before contacting the dealer to cancel? We have 2 more days to be within 30 days of purchase. Appreciate everyone's thoughts!
Hey, About to go pickup my new van and was offered to purchase a 8Y 100K maintenance plan for $2965. I'm having a hard time justifying it's worth that price but maybe some of you can tell me why it's a good value. Anyone else buy this? Thanks,
 

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Welcome to the forum. Shop around there as some Ford warranty plans out there cheaper.
 

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Hey, About to go pickup my new van and was offered to purchase a 8Y 100K maintenance plan for $2965. I'm having a hard time justifying it's worth that price but maybe some of you can tell me why it's a good value. Anyone else buy this? Thanks,
Honestly, it depends on the vehicle. Cars that have been made a while tend to have good reliability. I think for the Explorer '23, '24 will prove to be reliable.
 

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I used Grainger Ford for my extended warranty. 8 years 80k miles.for about $2200.
 



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