Skoda Dealers Now Able To Offer Five Year Warranty

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There is great news for Skoda buyers as the local arm is now able to offer an upgraded warranty on vehicles. The upgraded scheme now provides five year warranty on all private, government and general fleet vehicles, while retaining the previous unlimited kilometre strong coverage. Commercial vehicles can also benefit from a new five year warranty, but a 150,000 kilometre limit is imposed.

The Warranty Marketplace
The move to a five year warranty has been a growing trend in Australia. Hyundai was the first brand to offer this level of coverage in 1998, and they were soon joined by Mitsubishi and Kia in 2005 and 2007 respectively. Hyundai also led the trend in adding unlimited kilometre coverage to their warranty in 2007. Kia also took this one step further to extend their warranty period to seven years back in 2015.
Although a few other brands have now introduced five year warranties, most brands still only offer the “standard” three years.

Skoda’s Warranty:
In the past, Skoda dealers were able to offer customers an extended warranty only as a cost option. This Care Pack built on the three ...
... year or five year Service Pack by adding a further two years warranty coverage.
From today, the Service Pack will continue to be offered as an option, but the Care Pack extended warranty is now a standard feature throughout the range. This means that buyers can enjoy the Care Pack with no change to the model RRP, despite the pack costing differing amounts in the past depending on the model purchased.
According to Michael Irmer, managing director of Skoda Australia, approximately fifty percent of customers were purchasing the optional extended warranty from Skoda dealers. Perth drivers should appreciate that Skoda determined that the logical choice was to add this package to all the models as standard.
While Skoda is not the first brand to extend the standard warranty to five years, the brand will be looking to promote this upgrade as a point of sales difference. Even compared to sister company Volkswagen, this will create a marked difference as the German Brand continues to offer a three year warranty.
It is very likely that the Volkswagen Group in Australia will be carefully monitoring the consumer interest in the new Skoda warranty to consider whether to extend Volkswagen’s terms to match. At the moment, there is no official word from the Volkswagen Group, with communications manager for the Australian arm, Paul Pottinger confirming that there is no discussion currently, but the group would not want to deny one of their brands a competitive market advantage.

The new warranty upgrade applies to new models from now, but it is not retroactive. If you would like further information, you should contact us. Perth City Skoda is one of the most respected Skoda dealers in Perth. Our sales team would be happy to answer all your questions or queries.