Cazoo Extended Warranty - anygood?

As far as I understand it you are pretty well protected as a customer buying a car from any dealer in the first 6 months
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After this period you don't have much recourse just a battle with the warranty provider.
It's worth checking if the car is still in manufacturer warranty too, a lot of cars have long warranties now, check if that might be transferrable to a new owner or not.

£19 a month is £912 over 4 years which is quite a lot but not completely ridiculous in my opinion - it does depend on what the excess is though and what's covered. A lot of warranties will only cover major mechanical components e.g. engine and gearbox and on some modern cars you could have a complete failure of the electronic systems that isn't covered and cost £££ to repair. You dont have to buy their own warranty you can look at third party providers like warrantywise and warranty direct.

Personally speaking though I just put money to one side to pay for repairs. Put your £19 a month in the bank and you'd probably be in profit. (edited)

we bought a Mini from Cazoo 2 months ago and are in the middle of getting issues resolved via their 90 day warranty. It's a real pain in the proverbial. Have to call daily to get updates as to when my car will get booked in for repair works. We didn't extend the warranty because it's a lot of money and I have heard that Cazoo has been shrinking it's workforce so maybe under threat. Your extended warranty wont be worth anything if Cazoo collapse ( there have been rumblings of this).

My brother had an issue and it was a no-go with the Cazoo extended warranty. All kind of excuses, and at the end the little prints basically say that nothing is covered by the warranty.
Its a open scam (not only Cazoo, but any policy for an used car). A friend of mine got a claim rejected because it cannot be proved that the failure didn't exist before the guaranty policy...
Save your money, and use it if needed for the garage in case of a problem.

Cazoo were burning through a LOT of cash to keep things going and have pulled out of the EU

I'm NOT convinced they will be around to support the warranty! (edited)

I've also recently bought a car from Cazoo and my experience with them under the standard 90 day warranty is super sick. They don't value customer satisfaction at all past sales. You will not feel like being welcomed at all at their customer centre, just some very young boys managing the desk .. no aptitude or within their rights to make customer happy by resolving the issues.

I have a service plan from them for 3 years at £14/p.m. .. which I am now thinking to cancel. Earlier I had in mind to buy extended warranty from Cazoo as my 90 day warranty ends, but I am unlikely to do so.

It might be better experience to buy an extended warranty directly from brand if they sell one. In my case SEAT does offer one.

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One thing that stood out in Cazoo's t&c for extended warranty was they cover the mechanical failure of gearbox/clutches which is an exclusion in SEAT's own warranty. But hearing experience of others with clutch's end of life thing, makes it look like a false policy.

It is very hard to decide whether to buy any cover at all or not. (edited)