snakebitten said:
Exactly!
In my mind, the price was so small, I just consider it included in the price of the bike.
It was even a single transaction. Didn't sting a bit.
My dealer wanted $1200 for the 4 year extended warranty, which I turned down. I later found it here for $100/year or $400 total for 4 years, although there was something about limited availability for WA state. That's still too much in my opinion for money that will very likely just be free money to Yamaha. $400 I could spend on gas, or camp sites, or farkles, or even a half month of daycare for my son.
My piece of mind comes from knowing I bought a reliable bike to begin with, in fact, Consumer Reports rated Yamaha as having the least number of problems of the motorcycle manufacturers they rated (which excluded Victory).
Now at $10/year, or even $25/year, that's an expendible amount of money I am willing to waste. $100/year, not so much. Daycare is $$ and every dollar counts these days.
My previous adventure bike was a A990... The mount of time I spent wrenching on that thing was unbelievable! So far the maintenance of he Tenere has been about 1/10th the amount of work. Makes me even happier keeping the money in my pocket.
