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Originally Posted by vantrip
Anyone have any experience/knowledge with secure drive warranty program ? I noticed a m3 for sale with it. goggling it brings you to a pretty neat website but I'm looking for anyone thats actually made a claim with them or something?
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I had a VW MkIV 1.8T many, many years ago, and purchased a Secured Drive warranty with it. Over the course of my ownership, I've managed to successfully claim multiple items that failed on the VW to the point where I have at least broken even with the amount of money I spent on buying the warranty, if not coming out a little bit ahead. I don't remember the whole list of items that Secure Drive paid for, but the 2 notable ones were:
- some turbo recirculation valve -- this piece of crap actually failed 4x over the course of my 9 year ownership. VW covered it under warranty the first time. Secure Drive paid for it the 2nd and 3rd time, and I paid for it the 4th time since the extended warranty has expired by then.
- some moonroof railing and the associated motor
Because it had been so long ago that I've had that car, I don't actually remember whether Secure Drive only paid for the cost of the failed part, or whether it paid for both the parts and labour cost. One thing that is probably worthwhile to mentioned though -- I bought the VW and the extended warranty from Clarkdale, and during the warranty / extended-warranty period, I have always brought the car back to a Volkswagen dealership for servicing (usually Clarkdale). With a legitimate VW dealership servicing the car and taking care of the extended warranty claim, I'm sure that played a role in affecting how SD was more willing to pay for the failed parts.