Warranty

Audi Australia has announced it will provide five-year, unlimited kilometre warranties and five years free scheduled servicing for new cars sold in May and June. The offer is available “across a significant number of vehicles” and also includes complimentary registration, stamp duty and CTP insurance. CarAdvice will update this story with confirmation of which cars are not included in the scheme.

EXCLUSIVE Swedish brand Volvo is the latest luxury car maker to introduce a five-year warranty, following in the tyre tracks of Mercedes, Jaguar and Land Rover who have increased their coverage in the past four weeks. A confidential dealer bulletin obtained by CarAdvice says Volvo Cars Australia has negotiated an increase in warranty coverage from three to five years from its Swedish head office.

Hyundai has launched a new worldwide initiative to extend warranties that would have been set to expire in March and the weeks ahead, allowing owners some breathing room while caught under quarantine and isolation measures during the COVID-19 lockdown. The company is contacting affected owners directly to deliver the good news. The new program, C A R E, covers vehicles with original factory warranties that would have expired in March, through to May 30 2020.

Hyundai has introduced a seven-year warranty across most of its model range – up from the industry-first five-year coverage it introduced 20 years ago. However, according to a confidential dealer bulletin obtained by CarAdvice, the factory-backed extended warranty only applies to certain Hyundai vehicles ordered and delivered from the beginning of October through to the end of December 2019 – with “no exceptions”.

French carmaker Peugeot claims to have made a dramatic improvement in the quality and reliability of its latest cars, revealing confidential figures that show its warranty costs are a fraction of what they were a decade ago. In a briefing with media during a recent visit to Australia the global boss of the Peugeot brand, Jean-Philippe Imparato, estimated warranty claims – and the cost of those repairs – had been slashed by two-thirds.