Was the the dealership last week an asked them for pricing on their pre-paid maintenance. This was something I had included in all of my previous BMW 7 series, so wanted to see what the LR equivalent was.

3 year pre-paid, full + brakes / wipers- 4125
4 year pre-paid, full + brakes / wipers- 5950

Scheduled maintenance drops it significantly:
3 year- 1100
4 year 1675

It's a little hard to evaluate since the brochure specific to the Defender isnt available (or at least that is what the dealer said).

Any thoughts on this given that I actually bought this car as opposed to lease?

 

Do you get refunded for service not used? I personally just pay for what’s needed when it’s needed. Who knows how long you’ll keep the car or god forbid someone totals your car in an accident, then what good does the prepaid service do for you?

I have purchased a package of oil changes before for a slight savings and that was useful. (I actually had totally forgotten about it when I got my last oil change too so that was a nice surprise.) Other than that my cars 4 years old with 50k miles and I still haven’t had to replace bake pads or rotors yet. Cars getting traded in as soon as the next one arrives any week now. I have had to have the brake lines flushed, tires, wipers, sparks and air filters changed but those are small things and everything else has been great!

 

It is transferable to another owner but no refunds for unused services.. I am planning on keeping this car for a while I think..

 

I looked into it but decided against given the mileage I (currently) do. Since I only drive about 6000 miles a year I wouldn't make it to the $3000 brake job in the 4 year period. I'm fine paying for annual oil changes and services out of pocket.

 

I think I am in that same spot. Pass.

 

Absolutely not

Just pay for the service.

 

I bought three years prepaid scheduled maint and was told by my dealer that I would be refunded for services not used if I can bring proof the vehicle was sold. I will be trading in to Ford probably within the next 2 months so I'll find out for sure when I see the money. Assuming a refund is forthcoming the advantage of course of prepaid maintenance is that it's rolled into the payment.

 

Pass. If it were a "deal", they would be charging more or wouldn't offer it. My dad once said: "you never know what kind of insurance you have until you need it". What happens if you move? yada yada yada.

 

My previous vehicle was an Audi Q5 - I bought the prepaid maintenance on that because it lowered the interest rate (or, to be pedantic, the money factor) by 1% if you took it, which meant on a three year lease it essentially paid for itself. I kept that car for just less than 5 years and never paid a dime for any service - so for that example with a fairly long list of consumables at each annual service, it made perfect sense.

When I was researching the Defender, over the six months I waited for it to be delivered, the service intervals are much longer on the Defender so it didn't seem to make sense. When I had the dealer price it for me it was about $5000 which made no sense at all unless you are driving 20,000 or so miles a year. There are many people in that boat - I was one of them when I lived in CO - but now I'm lucky to drive 6000 a year and that's including long trips to VT for skiing and an annual trip to the Canadian Maritimes. Even if I had the oil changed annually (which is my plan), the other scheduled services wouldn't come around soon enough to be paid for while (hopefully) component failures would be covered under the warranty.

TLR - probably not worth it unless you drive a lot of miles because the service intervals are infrequent (and very poorly defined by JLR)

 

Maybe if you are planning to lease the oil changes don’t matter, but if you are keeping it longer term then I would change the oil every 10,000 miles AT MOST.

The first set of prices you gave (full) does that include unlimited oil changes?
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