It's Not Over Yet!

The sales manager attempted to sell me an extended maintenance plan, an extended warranty, plus other upgrade options like "clear bra", "dent protection", "tire and wheel protection" and a couple of others.  I declined initially, under the notion that I'd like to research the options first.

So I researched.  And I learned that MINIs repairs are expensive!  And, of course, just about every search regarding extended warranties for MINI Coopers come with loads of horror stories, etc about how people had wished they'd gotten the extended warranty.  In some cases, people bought it and didn't get their money's worth from it.

I'm inclined to get the extended warranty, if only as insurance against a $6,000 transmission replacement, for example.  In fact, CarChex quoted me an extended warranty at about 2/3 the price of the one offered by the dealership.  I'm still waiting to sync up with Warranty Direct.

As for the extended maintenance plan, I'm concerned that the dealer will use these visits as an opportunity to up-sell any borderline (or even unnecessary) maintenance work.