No experience with LDS, but I have been researching an extended warranty. Curious why you would consider LDS over the Mopar backed max care from Granger for the same price? It looks like the max care has better coverage as well. Personally, I’m leaning toward the 8 year, 100k max care for $2300.
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No experience with LDS, but I have been researching an extended warranty. Curious why you would consider LDS over the Mopar backed max care from Granger for the same price? It looks like the max care has better coverage as well. Personally, I’m leaning toward the 8 year, 100k max care for $2300.
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For $1500 doesn’t seem like a bad deal. Plus they allow you to use any mechanic to do the work. The Mopar one is likely a better bet I would agree. Have them on my jeeps from Tom winkles. I checked pricing with him today and he’s about 250+ more than granger this time. Granger is a pretty good deal
My father has a 22 and I priced his warranty vs on my 24 which is the and truck and funny part is this one is showing a several hundred lower price.
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Did you purchase it with the truck at the dealer ? If so, contact the finance person and tell them you want to cancel. They might give you a hard time but honestly keep on them. I’ve heard horror stories since this is a huge profit deal for the dealers.
You will get a full refund but if you financed, your payment will not change, it will go towards the principal on the loan so it will payoff sooner. Cash deal should be a straight refund
Yes I wrapped it in with financing. But if I can cancel it and then buy it directly for cheaper, that’s exactly what I will do. I just want to make sure I am able to “re purchase”
the extended warranty. My truck has 900 miles on it.
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I’ve never heard of an issue with repurchasing. You could always call the Mopar warranty line and double check but it’s nothing I’ve heard of. You can purchase it anytime while the factory warranty is intact but it doesn’t get more expensive over time
When I got mine, there; was $75 cancellation fee in the contract. Factor that and what you've already paid in on any financing deal. They're
very much front loaded on finance fees.
very much front loaded on finance fees.
I would be saving $500 if I cancel the current one and reapply. Talked to guy at Maxcare warranty today…told me exactly how to cancel it the quickest way. He said I have 60 days from time I purchased it. Also told me I have up until 12,000 miles to purchase extended warranty before the price would increase.
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Hello team. I'm going to pose the same question in the Granger thread too, but this one has 26 pages of members and may get me more responses.
For those that don't know, a law in California went into effect Jan1 2023, where vehicles registered in California cannot purchase manufacturor warranties from out of state dealerships. That means Ziegler, Granger, Flood, etc. Even if it is the exact same warranty. You don't have to use YOUR dealership, but it has to be SOME dealership in California. How do I know this? When I got a Ford Maverick in Sep '23, I planned to just go online to Granger and buy the warranty, and found out the hard way about this law.
When I got my Ram, I was surprised and found Granger was able to sell me the warranty (I confirmed 3 months before my truck arrived) and I bought one. This week, they sent out notices to California (and Florida?) customers that Mopar is telling them they need to refund or change the home address to one outside the state.
I don't have an alternate address and will have to get a refund. I am now shopping around Cali dealerships to see if any will go below MSRP. Has anyone purchased an extended warranty in California, from any dealer, that was just above cost or even below MSRP? Please PM me if anyone has tips...
Thanks!
For those that don't know, a law in California went into effect Jan1 2023, where vehicles registered in California cannot purchase manufacturor warranties from out of state dealerships. That means Ziegler, Granger, Flood, etc. Even if it is the exact same warranty. You don't have to use YOUR dealership, but it has to be SOME dealership in California. How do I know this? When I got a Ford Maverick in Sep '23, I planned to just go online to Granger and buy the warranty, and found out the hard way about this law.
When I got my Ram, I was surprised and found Granger was able to sell me the warranty (I confirmed 3 months before my truck arrived) and I bought one. This week, they sent out notices to California (and Florida?) customers that Mopar is telling them they need to refund or change the home address to one outside the state.
I don't have an alternate address and will have to get a refund. I am now shopping around Cali dealerships to see if any will go below MSRP. Has anyone purchased an extended warranty in California, from any dealer, that was just above cost or even below MSRP? Please PM me if anyone has tips...
Thanks!
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No friends out of state? Even use a bogus address. easy peasy, they don’t need a good address it doesn’t matter.
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We've been through this discussion before. I'm not willing to play shenanigans, or involve friends in a legal loophole. You have a law degree and energy to argue and register things out of state, I am just trying to live life here, man.
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No reason to get your feathers ruffled.
Definitely not seeing where you are coming up with my suggestions as shenanigans. This law was passed likely by the dealers lobbying association to pad their pockets. So find a loophole. ram needs to follow the law so they are refunding or will need an address. This doesn’t require you to re-register your truck to another state. Simply provide an out of state address for Ram in their internal system. Not seeing why this is some crazy legal voodoo issue for you. No need to be scared- you wanna save $, use a random address. What’s going to happen? Nothing! People ransack stores with no repercussions in CA, you think the police are searching for fake address to skirt an extended warranty law? Its likely not even a violation in the statute. lol,no…
If you’re that soft, then just pay more locally.
Give it a rest.
You think you're helping but you're just being an agitator and it's getting old.
The insult is very uncalled for and goes against site rules. Consider this a free and transparent public warning.
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That’s why I escaped Comifornia in 2017, it’s likely an insurance regulation that is effecting the extended warranty. I don’t know the law, but Comifornia always comes up with ridiculous laws that affect your quality of life. I wouldn’t try to skirt the law, just pay the cheapest you can find from a Comifornia dealer. When they catch up to you, it will be worthless, or you’ll have to go out of state for repairs.
Wow. How is that even legal? So glad I don't live there.
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I'm sure it was lobbied for by dealers and worded as a way to protect consumers against fraudulent insurance. The selling "obligor" has to have a license with the CA dmv to sell within California or the seller can get a $500k fine.
What the law specifically (and probably intentionally) leaves out is if the contract is the exact same contract from a national auto manufacturor no matter where it is purchased. Very clever, or stupid, omission.
Anyway, if anyone has found a California dealership that is selling Mopar warranties with thin margins with goal of high volume, please PM me so we don't pollute the Ziegler thread.
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I believe this is the very reason you simply cannot get a discounted warranty in Florida. They have a lock on it and know it. It's price fixing at its finest. It's been that way in FL for as long as I can remember so it's not new for them. I almost want to say I heard TX as well, but not entirely sure and could have been misremembering.
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Granger indeed said they were notifying all their CA and FL customers. So you are 100% correct. Something must have happened with Mopar catching on or catching heat recently and the remote dealerships absolutely do not want to pay these state fines.
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Florida is one of the worst states to purchase in from dealers so I wouldn’t doubt this being their own legislative carve out too. They have obscene doc fees. It’s the Wild West for car dealers with little regulation. I’m a free market guy but stupid people won’t say or can’t say no - so sometimes the market doesn’t work well. Too bad to see CA which has always been fairly pro consumer, kick them in the behind on this one.