[Raydog]

I may be in the same boat (thinking about ext. warranty). I'm just glad that the warranty is 4 years and not 3. Mine is up at the end of Oct. (currently have 38k mi).

In the past few months I had a lot of warranty items fixed/replaced (marker light noise, side mirror, falling apart chrome fuel door, rear wiper fluid pump, etc.). Just recently had the check engine light go on. Had the fuel cap message come on too, so thought it was just a broken fuel cap. I've driven with it for a while. Finally got it in today thinking I'd be in and out with a new fuel cap (dealer is about an hour drive away, so it isn't easy) and the service mgr said yep I need a new fuel cap, current one isn't sealing... oh and your rental is coming because you need a new head.

I'm lucky its under 50k mi and under 4 years, or that would have been one heck of an added expense I didn't need right now.