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a well known dealer is offering a miserly 3 month warrenty on second hand car,this i feel is poor,i can buy a 36 month for $1200 from them,i dont have a good feeling about this,almost forcing myself to buy a extended warrenty,what do you think. are these warrenties worth it.
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If you are buying from a registered motor vehicle trader (not by auction or pvt sale) for personal use the Consumer Guarantees Act (CGA) will cover you by law for a reasonable amount of time - so depending on the vehicle's mileage, age and purchase price the CGA could either cover you for a few days or months - possibly more than the three months the dealer has offered. The timeframe isn't defined and if you ended up in a dispute with the dealer due to a fault with the car the court would need to decide what is reasonable.
An extended warranty could assist you when you are faced with a major repair so it's useful to have but sometimes you never use it and its money down the drain.