I just purchased a clean 2008 A4 2.0T AWD (B7) with 41K mi. from my local Audi dealer. It still has about 1 year or 9,000 miles on the factory warranty. It was offered with the 2 year, 50K CPO warranty but I declined it to save myself $1,200. Assuming I can still go back to the dealer and get the CPO since I just purchased the car 4 days ago, would that be something you would recommend with this car given the cost of the warranty? I'd burn through the two years before I ever hit 50K on the CPO warranty.

EDIT: I'll put about 12,500 mi./yr. on the car, so it would have about 75k miles on it when the CPO expires.

 

Its 1200 dollars to guarantee you will have a running car. For 2 years. Sounds pretty simple to me.

 

I guarantee I'll have a running car for two years. The question is, will it likely cost me more than $1,200. My last car had a 3 year, 60K mile CPO warranty and I never brought it back for warranty service.

 

K so heres the deal. These cars have a stupid maintenance routine where you have to change the timing belt every 50-60k miles. Buying it at 40k miles guarantees, unless you wreck it, that you will have to perform this repair. Its somewhere around 500 bucks to do it yourself. But...if you got the warranty, WOO under warranty.

 

Are you sure the timing belt is covered under warranty? I thought that was a normal wear item. Besides, I thought the timing belt was good for 115K mi. Even so, I still have some of the factory warranty left. If I take it in at 49K mi., will they replace it under warranty just because I asked them to? Is regular maintenance covered under the original factory warranty?

PS: I read that AOA apparently just extended the warranty on the dreaded Cam Follower issue to 10 years or 120K mi. If that's true, then my main reason for wanting the CPO warranty just went away.