Toyota 5 year warranty
March 27th, 2010 by Richard Aucock
TOYOTA has moved to reassure retail car buyers by introducing a 5 year warranty on its new car range.
From this weekend, private car buyers will be offered the 5 year new car warranty.
What’s more, if the 5 year warranty is not for them, they can choose the regular 3 year warranty option, but with a 3 year service plan included for free, too.
It will be marketed under the banner ‘Your Choice, Our Promise’. A Toyota spokesman said the scheme will launch from tomorrow, and will be focused on that 2 year extension to the regular 3 year warranty.
The 4th and 5th year UK cover are provided by Toyota GB and require that owners’ cars undergo servicing at an official Toyota service centre.
Toyota MD Miguel Fonseca said ‘this great new programme not only represents superb value for our customers, it also gives them complete peace of mind around their choice of vehicle. It also underpins the principle of trouble free motoring characteristic of Toyota’s products.
‘And with the choice of a longer warranty or free servicing for their new car, they can make a choice based on their personal priorities.’
The move is a positive one to boost retail buyer confidence in new Toyotas, after the brand hit the headlines following the retail drama of the past few months.
Toyota has rectified over 66 percent of the affected cars in just 6 weeks, thanks to an unprecedented effort by the firm’s car dealers.
What do you think about Toyota’s confidence-boosting move?
Tags: 5 year warranty, incentive, recall, toyota
March 27th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
My new Avensis Tourer experienced 5 occasions of sudden unintended acceleration. Toyota GB washed their hands off my problem and wouldn’t deal with the vehicle under warranty until the dealership could prove there is a fault. It took seven months for a Toyota Engineer to inspect and they won’t acknowledge the problem is with the automatic throttle. It’s not drivers pressing the wrong pedal, its not the floormat, its not the pedal – it’s electronic. Extending a warranty to five years is totally irrelevant as they don’t honour it in any case. A gimmic
March 28th, 2010 at 10:34 am
I have a 2009 Camry and it was not what I expected about the quality. Toyota cut corners in building this car. The interior plastic materials look cheap. The drive shaft at the wheel looks it’s made of low quality steel and is rusting very badly. It may rust out in ayear. The carpet is lying loosely and is not even tacked to the floor. The seams are not sewn. I put out about $23k for a defective merchandise. THEN CAME THE RECALLS. BUYERS BEWARE.
March 28th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
I was a bit put out that Toyota from this weekend are offering 3 yrs free servicing or a 5 yr warranty on their new cars because I paid for and got a new Verso on Thursday and there was no mention of this at all.
After contacting them today the dealer (Minories, Sunderland) have told me I will be given the warranty or free servicing offer