An Extended Warranty – Priceless

car breakdown When your car overheats you are presented with a number of problems. Unfortunately fanning down your engine with a brochure you found in the trunk of your car, or putting an ice pack on your radiator isn’t going to do the trick.

If your car does fully overheat, get comfortable because you are probably going to be stuck wherever you are for at least 45 minutes. If you can’t afford waiting it out, that means calling a tow truck to get your car to the nearest repair shop.

JD Power Dependability Study - How Reliable is Your Car?

J.D. Power & Associates has released their Vehicle Dependability Study. How reliable is your car?

“Deterioration in vehicle quality during the first three years of ownership—determined by comparing long-term dependability rates to initial quality problem rates—strongly affects overall customer satisfaction as well as customer willingness to recommend their vehicle model, according to the J.D. Power and Associates Vehicle Dependability Study SM released today.

The study, which measures problems experienced by original owners of 3-year-old (2005 model year) vehicles, finds that, on average, customers report experiencing 75 percent more problems in the third year of ownership than during the first 90 days.