Question #12: Flood Ford ESP; When to buy?

[911 Crazy]

1) Are they still the best price option? Yes, unless you can get your dealership to go lower. Also, check out Ziegler - they have great prices as well.
2) Why would anyone buy at inception when it will be the same price up to it's 1 year Bday? Only thing I can see is they could include in the financing. I'm not sure why anyone would, except to be able to finance it into their monthly payment.
3) If I understand correctly, this won't kick in until the 3/36 expires? Correct.
4) Does the 3/36 cover as much as the Flood Premium Maintenance plan? The 3/36 Ford warranty doesn't provide any routine maintenance items - the Premium Maintenance is a completely different product. Or am I reading your questing wrong?

I forgot to link what I was talking about. It is in post#1 now. Thanks

 

[911 Crazy]

As many here have said, it’s totally up to you whether or not to purchase it. You may win the lottery and have the most reliable Raptor ever, or you could get hit with a future buy back, or anywhere in between. Some things that helped me decide were the expenses of some early repairs - what it would cost if not under warranty. Plus the moon roof- which is about $1300-1800 depending on where you are and how bad it’s messed up. <-- again, this can be avoided with maintenance but in case it happens to you, it’s an expensive repair.

One advantage to an early purchase ESP is if you buy first day rental coverage, that’s helpful at keeping unexpected expenses down if you had a failure on a trip or similar.

Or you can wait to purchase during your 3/36 and gain more time covered with slightly higher buy in.

Are you saying if you buy in, say just before your 3/36 is up, you'd be buying say an additional 8 years of coverage? If so, then why wouldn't everyone do that? What say you?

 

[JohnC12]

They have replaced 4 speakers and an a-pin in my Bullitt already and had the rear sliding glass replaced in the truck. Everyone has there issues. To me 1900 was cheap insurance for the random problems, even if they aren’t big the little ones add up over time.

It was tongue and cheek, my friend. I'm a big fan of extended warranties... I have one myself.

 

[BroncoAZ]

Are you saying if you buy in, say just before your 3/36 is up, you'd be buying say an additional 8 years of coverage? If so, then why wouldn't everyone do that? What say you?

Nope, coverage begins from the in service date and zero miles. If you know you’ll keep it there is no benefit to waiting. I plan on keeping the truck long term, and it’s transferable if I sell down the road. I’m assuming that selling a 6 year old Raptor with 100K miles would be easier if there is still a couple years and 25K worth of warranty remaining.

 

[911 Crazy]

Nope, coverage begins from the in service date and zero miles. If you know you’ll keep it there is no benefit to waiting.

That's how I understand it also but it may be different in Smurfland. You may also get a free rental unicorn to tool around on also while in repair.

 

[wheelman55]

The warranty will pay for itself in pano moonroof repairs alone. 42k miles and just had my second pano roof repair

 

[smurfslayer]

coverage begins from the in service date and zero miles

I was misremembering, @BroncoAZ for the win
https://www.floodfordesp.com/faq.php

 

[smurfslayer]

The warranty will pay for itself in pano moonroof repairs alone. 42k miles and just had my second pano roof repair

yowza. i just had one that took several visits to resolve. apparently moon roofs are a specialty that your average tech doesn’t or shouldn’t do? My local stealership contracts all the moon roof work out to another (non Ford) stealership.

 

[LouK]

It was tongue and cheek, my friend. I'm a big fan of extended warranties... I have one myself.

this is actually the first time I've purchased one. i always thought they were out of this world expensive and not at all inclusive.

 

[Oldfart]

I shopped a few weeks back and Flood still had the best price by around $100 or so. I just emailed them over the weekend and asked them if they ever have any sales, I'll see what they say. Sometimes it pays to dangle your ****** a little. Maybe they have an extra point or two left on the table.