I have searched the forum trying to determine the warranty start date for an OSD vehicle and all of the information I read is quite old and did not appear conclusive. Different people had different inputs in the past discussions. Does anyone know what is the start date of the warranty based on our information below:
1) Vehicle paid for on 3/19/2022
2) Vehicle picked up in Gothenburg on 05/06/2022 (drove 0.5 mile around the track)
3) Vehicle picked up from the dealer in the US 6/30/2022
4) Dealer activated bunch of stuff on 7/5/2022 (Our Volvo on call app says free access until 7/4/2026)
We are not driving the OSD vehicle that much. It currently has about 600 miles on the odometer and we switched to a school that's only 0.5 mile away which further reduced the miles. I'm trying to calculate whether to buy an extended warranty before the car gets to 1000 miles and start date of Volvo's warrant is a key part of that calculation. On our first XC90 two years ago I thought we would keep the car for 10 years so we got the 10 year warranty. We were refunded for 75% of the cost once we traded it in which is great but the car was covered by the manufacturer's warranty the entire time we had it so that 25% was sunk cost. This time around I'm not quite sure we will keep the car outside of the Volvo 4 year/50k mile warranty. Literally we have had 6 different cars this year (long story). The cost of the warranty has gone up about $500 from what we paid 2 years ago with inflation but I did get a nice 4th of July discount that was nicer than the sweedspeed one. We will definitely be under 1000 miles for Labor day and if I monitor which car we drive for errands, I can probably swing it to Thanksgiving discount specials. I'm a spreadsheet person so I would like to calculate risk/reward and start date of the manufacturer's warranty is a key piece of information I'm not sure. I'm literally on the edge whether to buy it or not.. If anyone knows for sure please let me know. I don't need guesses. If there is a way to find out from Volvo paperwork that would be even better!
Thanks!
1) Vehicle paid for on 3/19/2022
2) Vehicle picked up in Gothenburg on 05/06/2022 (drove 0.5 mile around the track)
3) Vehicle picked up from the dealer in the US 6/30/2022
4) Dealer activated bunch of stuff on 7/5/2022 (Our Volvo on call app says free access until 7/4/2026)
We are not driving the OSD vehicle that much. It currently has about 600 miles on the odometer and we switched to a school that's only 0.5 mile away which further reduced the miles. I'm trying to calculate whether to buy an extended warranty before the car gets to 1000 miles and start date of Volvo's warrant is a key part of that calculation. On our first XC90 two years ago I thought we would keep the car for 10 years so we got the 10 year warranty. We were refunded for 75% of the cost once we traded it in which is great but the car was covered by the manufacturer's warranty the entire time we had it so that 25% was sunk cost. This time around I'm not quite sure we will keep the car outside of the Volvo 4 year/50k mile warranty. Literally we have had 6 different cars this year (long story). The cost of the warranty has gone up about $500 from what we paid 2 years ago with inflation but I did get a nice 4th of July discount that was nicer than the sweedspeed one. We will definitely be under 1000 miles for Labor day and if I monitor which car we drive for errands, I can probably swing it to Thanksgiving discount specials. I'm a spreadsheet person so I would like to calculate risk/reward and start date of the manufacturer's warranty is a key piece of information I'm not sure. I'm literally on the edge whether to buy it or not.. If anyone knows for sure please let me know. I don't need guesses. If there is a way to find out from Volvo paperwork that would be even better!
Thanks!