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Breaking news: Stratstone Warranty
Contacted local Stratstone to buy a year 5 extended warranty for our Freelander. Stratstone have stopped selling LR extended warranties and now sell a Stratstone warranty. It has a special feature though that will be of great use to all LR drivers...........
It is invalidated by ANY off road use. Even a grassy field.
What a bizarre stupid product. It sounds like the sort of thing you buy for a Rover 200 rather than a LR.
Contacted another dealer who will never see the car and bought a LR one.
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19th Jun 2007 7:13 pm
Duncster
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Thats sounds just like Sh*tstone to me. I would think they are obliged to sell the LR product though15 3.0 RRS HSE - Silver
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19th Jun 2007 7:15 pm
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Just out of interest BCP how much was the quote for the warranties, both S...stone and the LR? I'm thinking about extending as the chumbucket2 is on a 05 plate and having done a few mods to it I'm thinking of keeping her for a long time..........
19th Jun 2007 7:32 pm
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The world really has gone insane when you can't take your Land Rover off road...
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19th Jun 2007 9:25 pm
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Re: Breaking news: Stratstone Warranty
BCP wrote:
It is invalidated by ANY off road use. Even a grassy field.
Best not go to Stratstone then for anything then
19th Jun 2007 11:39 pm
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Bit of a pain in the bum if theyre the closest and your next nearest dealer is 15-20 miles away.
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20th Jun 2007 6:20 am
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£921 for year 5 from LR incl. LRA.
Stratstone have the East of Scotland monopoly.
Have Town & County in Aberdeen been taken over by Stratstone The older I get, the more I realise that people confuse wrinkles for wisdom
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20th Jun 2007 8:48 am
BCP
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Oh, you mean that sticky out bit miles from no where. Did sell me a LR warranty though
Oh, you mean that sticky out bit miles from no where.
It is hardly miles from nowhere - it's only a few hundred yards
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20th Jun 2007 12:32 pm
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you weren't an English teacher (Scottish version) in a past life JMC
And I thought my correction of his little mistake would go un-noticed.......
Gold star for you today The older I get, the more I realise that people confuse wrinkles for wisdom
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20th Jun 2007 1:34 pm
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A lot of dealer networks have enforced their own warranty policies over the year. What S stones are doing is just cashing in.
I had a similar issue with my last car, a Mitubishi Evo. The dealer sells these as a fun car, that can be used day to day and then driven on track as a hobby. They even encourage you by setting up dealer trackdays to bring your own car aong and get tuition.
But never try and claim for anything after you do as it's
"Oooh' you track your car sir, don't you!?"
"It's not covered after trackwork"
"We've seen you on track and you are a bit fast, and chuck your car about Sir!"
I was left sitting pretty with a £2.5k bill for a new Yaw control pump, although I forced the issue and got it paid out...eventually.
So the S stone con will be there for folk who will never use it.
I bet another proviso to the deal would be it needs to be serviced by them and no other dealer to be valid, at their inflated prices.
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stones are doing is just cashing in.
