Anyone familiar with Volvo Certified Warranty’s? Volvo’s aren’t known for reliability, but a CPO one might be tolerable. Volvo also extended CPO plans called, “Volvo Increased Protection Plans” for up to 120k miles or 8 years.
IMHO, Volvo CPO warranty changed for the worse in Nov. It went from 7yr/100k miles to 5yr/unlimited. Time starts from when car was first in service, not when you buy the CPO. Their warranty coverage is good though, relative to like BMW.
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I guess that’s the trend. BMW went to only 1 year.
Lexus still has the best warranty in the business. Remainder of factory warranty plus 2 year unlimited mileage bumper to bumper warranty
That’s because Lexus vehicles don’t really need one 
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You can opt to extend the volvo warranty. No idea what the cost is.
For a high-mileage driver like me (34k per year) the Volvo warranty improved for the better. I called to check on the cost of extending a S90 T6 to the 8 year max. I was told the cost was roughly $3500. That is a smoking deal for someone like me. If a buy a vehicle with less than a year in service, and less than 20k miles on the odometer, I can literally bury 200k miles on it. For now, I haven’t opted to go CPO rather I’m using a mileage car (Purchased a Hyundai Sonata Plug-in) and a luxury car (BMW 530e lease) to parse out the miles. The Volvo CPO warranty really has me thinking I should scale back to one vehicle to save on insurance and maintenance.
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I wonder if you can negotiate in the cost of the extended warranty? With BMW ones you can.
Not sure how you’re minimizing your per-mile costs considering how Volvos depreciate.
Yes, of course you can. Why do you think all these OEMs went to shorter, extendable CPOs in the first place (instead of a fixed 6yr program)? Because there’s a lot of profit for the dealer to sell you the extension
Yes, I agree for high-mileage drivers the warranty change is for the better. I just think on average there are more standard-mileage drivers than high-mileage ones, so the change is not favorable for most people.
If you buy a Volvo for the CPO warranty, your essentially committing to driving the wheels off of it and not worrying about resale.
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