First time Audi Q5 owner - need Extended warranty/Maintenance care info

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Hi LHers

I bought my first Audi Q5 yesterday, would like your inputs on following Q’s

  1. Is extended warranty needed if planning to keep the car for longtime ? ($3054 for 96months/100k miles)
  2. Is it worth to buy Audi maintenance care plan that cover audi recommended maintenance 48months/40k miles ($1399)
  3. Easy care plan , covers windsheild, dents, paint , key replacement, road hazard for 60 months ($890)

would love to know from experts how to maintain this vehicle after 4 year warranty.

Thanks in advance.

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Q5s lease so well that you should have leased it. I used to own an A4 and it was a nightmare to maintain. Owning that Audi convinced me that leasing is the way to go.

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oh but the money you spent on lease will be gone once you return the vehicle. I am planning to own the car as i am not a big driver, most of the times it sits in my garage except weekends or holidays. My previous car was Highlander and i own it for 15 years with 140k miles on it, drives like a charm and never had major issues till it was rear ended by a teenager with truck last month and totaled.

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  1. How much have you compared pricing? What’s covered and what’s not covered? What’s the deductible? Who is the provider or underwriter?

2 and 3 are easily “no”

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$250 deductible , covers the servicing for the term of coverage and i don’t have details of terms and condition. They are supposed share the details by email, awaiting.

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You should have probably got another Highlander or Lexus RX if you’re going to hold for so long. I had my A4 for about 3 years and the maintenance cost me about 200 dollars per month. Depreciation was another 250.

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200 per month maintenance ? are you talking about Gas expense ? or any other?

I could not get any deals on RX350. It is around the same price 55k but dealers are hardly giving 1k off.

Most of the Audi , 2022 models are eligible for rebate of 2k from Audi.

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Total maintenance cost divided by the number of months I owned the vehicle.

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wow!! i don’t know how i can manage but lets see how it goes. Hopefully no major issues for few more years and no big drop in car prices.

These non-luxury SUV’s are selling above/same as premium car prices and so i had to buy Q5.

Have to find a way to minimize any maintenance costs.

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Brokers here have around 8% off on the RX 350

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i almost received 15% off on Q5 and none of the brokers near to my zipcode. Shipping is another 1.5k and i don’t know if transaction goes smoothly or not but yeah i would have spent some more time in this forum and talk to couple of brokers.

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Was it a used Audi? I leased an A4 in 2016, and the only maintenance required was a once a year/10k service. I bought Audi Care, so the total cost to me was about $400 for the three services.

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Yeah I got it used probably right out of warranty. I think the 2014 generation wasn’t very good.

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Any inputs on getting good extended warranty with reasonable price?

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Go here and scroll down to Audi

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