Almost out of bumper 2 bumper warranty ?

[PMS6363]

In June my 02 LS V8 sport is going to run out of bumper to bumper warranty. I am going to have them fix a wind noise on drivers door, replace the lug nuts and inspect squeak / groan on front end. This car only has 31,000 miles. What else have you guys had problems with or will probably go wrong that I can have them fix before the bumper to bumper expires?

Thanks
Parrish

 

[SoonerLS]

Nothing. The warranty is only there to fix things that are broken, not things that might break. If it ain't broke by the end of the warranty period, they're not going to be able to fix it. Pretty much the only exception to this rule is something that you complained about (ie, something for which there's an OASIS report) that they were unable to diagnose or repair before the warranty expired. F'rinstance, if you complain about a front-end clunk, but the dealer can't replicate it, and you end up having your ball joints replaced a couple of months after the warranty expires, Lincoln will probably cover that.

But you can't just go in to the dealer and say "I want the COPs replaced because they might fail some day"--warranties just don't work that way. You could always go in and complain about the symptoms of a problem that might happen in the next few months to a year, but if you don't really have them, that could be construed as fraud, which is a criminal offense...

 

[cableguynoe]

F'rinstance, if you complain about a front-end clunk, but the dealer can't replicate it, and you end up having your ball joints replaced a couple of months after the warranty expires, Lincoln will probably cover that.
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It's probably stupid to bring this up now...but when i read this i felt like an idiot.

I took my LS in to the dealer last year right before the warranty ran out. It was having a hard time starting...long story short they said they replaced something but the problem continued.
Since warranty was now done i just left it alone.
In JAnuary i took it in for same problem....different dealership since i didnt like the other one... but they seemed to have no problem finding the problem(better service when paying cash?)....2 leaking injectors....about $700 worth of work.

Never gave it much thought until now..... could i have gone back to them and told them they didnt fix the problem that i reported under warranty so they should fix it now....?....

would it have worked.....??

Since they keep records of everything....do i still have something?

The $700 i long considered lost money....i'm just a little updet that they couldnt find the problem....i wonder if they would have if i was paying cash the first time....

 

[LincolnTech38]

It's probably stupid to bring this up now...but when i read this i felt like an idiot.

I took my LS in to the dealer last year right before the warranty ran out. It was having a hard time starting...long story short they said they replaced something but the problem continued.
Since warranty was now done i just left it alone.
In JAnuary i took it in for same problem....different dealership since i didnt like the other one... but they seemed to have no problem finding the problem(better service when paying cash?)....2 leaking injectors....about $700 worth of work.

Never gave it much thought until now..... could i have gone back to them and told them they didnt fix the problem that i reported under warranty so they should fix it now....?....

would it have worked.....??

Since they keep records of everything....do i still have something?

The $700 i long considered lost money....i'm just a little updet that they couldnt find the problem....i wonder if they would have if i was paying cash the first time....

you are pretty much SOL with that money. You should have kept taking it back to the same dealer that didnt fix it right the first time till they fixed.

No other dealer is going to cover an out of warranty repair that another dealer already tried to fix.

Jay

 

[cblood]

you have a warranty, 12 months/12,000 miles on all parts replaced. Does not matter if they were done under warranty or not.

 

[chocolat1701]

well he didnt exactly say that the parts they repleced are the was the parts that needed fixing and was fixed by the other dealer -- they could of just changed the spark plugs but that wasnt the issue though (just an example) but you are right 12 months/12,000 miles on all parts replaced just as long as the parts that need fixing are the same.

 

[chocolat1701]

buy the extended warrenty this is my 3rd car that i purchased this and most of the issues that were big issues came after the original warrenty expire.