My wife and I currently lease a Honda Pilot. We are 2 years into a 3/36 lease. We are over about 3000 miles over so far. So, we will likey be over the mileage and out of warranty when the lease ends. Our concern is really about the warranty and not so much about the miles. Our prior lease was a Toyota Highlander. We were going to be out of warranty but we chose to “trade” the lease in 3 months early and with 1000 miles left in the warranty. We had equity so it wasn’t a big deal. This time who knows? So, what does everyone do when they have a 3/45 or when they go over the mileage and beyond the warranty? Roll the dice? Or buy an extended warranty and then “return” the unused portion for a credit?
Depends on the vehicle. If anything minor breaks, it shouldn’t be too expensive on a Honda. Drivetrain should be covered for more than 36k miles. What you should be worried are the tires, those aren’t cheap.
You have 39k right now? As in, you’re going to end up turning it in with around 58k miles?
I have about 27000 now. So, not over yet but will be. Already replaced the tires. Ran into the same thing with the Highlander.
Interesting, I have insurance which offers MBI, it actually goes over and beyond the warranty that comes with my lease i have already …so if I go past my 36000 miles or 3 years I’m still covered under the policy with MBI
Does anyone have this with their policy
27000 miles and changed your tires?
You must have to rough roads where you are
I had to change my Avalons tires at 26000. Toyota has cheap ass tires on their new vehicles.
Referencing the Warranty Manual from Honda-
It looks like your powertrain components would still be covered until 5/60. The biggest non-warrantable repairs would be things like the head unit/AC compressor/ Alternator/Starter/AC hose lines/etc.
What’s the likelihood that one of those components would fail within the short mileage period of you leasing it post-warranty?
Personally, I’d avoid an extended warranty. You’ll spend more on it than what it’s worth in such a short period of time. If you were owning it for 5 more years, different story.
Within the last few years we have have 3 new cars. We had a 2014 Highlander which needed tires around 30,000 miles. A 2016 4Runner and we got almost 40,000 on the originals. Lastly, the 2017 Pilot. We put new tires on with 27,000 but it was a little early due to the fact that we didn’t want to go through winter with them and because one had a leak that wasn’t fixable.
That’s a low number of miles to change tires on an Avalon…I had 19 inch tires on my Honda and traded the car in with just under 30000 miles and didn’t change out the tires.
I think I would just roll the dice and not get any warranty. Three points: Chances are slim anything will fail in that short period. The turn in inspection may not even notice something minor. The deductible will probably be $100 anyway.