I bought a 2006 from the dealership on the condition that it gets certified. They are now telling me that there are a couple paint blemishes on the hood and front bumper and that they can't certify it without painting them.

They said that painting it, would reduce the resale value and are offering me a 12,000 extended warranty in lieu of painting/certifying it.

They said the extended warranty would be essentially the same as the certification. Is this true?

My impression reading on the internet, is that the paint is not covered by the certification, so I'm thinking that they are they just trying to get out of doing the certification.

What would you do, extended warranty or certification warranty?

 

how many miles are on the car. The paint on the cars is lousy making it chip easy. Under those conditions no acuras would be certified.

 

It has 57K on it.

 

If you're comfortable buying an 06 with 57k on it*, get it with the extended warranty. (*Not that it's a bad thing to have that many miles, it just seems a little high.) Paint blemishes can sometimes be rubbed out or polished up and waxed to disappear temporarily... and I can't imagine it would be too expensive to paint it on your own. You have to think that there might be other reasons they won't certify it... carfax? inspection? worth the cost most of the time.

Also, it seems funny to me that painting it would reduce resale? They should be able to match the color, finish, and depth of paint so that no one could tell it's been painted... smells like bs.

Check out Acura.com, certified pre-owned warranty information and see if it matches with what they're telling you/offering....

 

my 06 tsx, bought new 11/17/06, has 62,000+problem free miles. I recently had it serviced by a acura dealer. Nothing needed, except the oil changed. The only complaint I have is the lousy paint so my car has numerous rock chips.

 

I was comfortable with the high miles, since I only average <5K a year myself, as long as it was certified. Thus my concern was on them pushing back on certifying it (paint being an excuse?). I'm leaning towards having them certify it any way.

 

i have an 06 (that i bought new) with about 56K on it, and i got it in Sept. of 06 so it was late in the model year too. also, repainting does reduce the resale value. there are gages that can tell the thickness of the paint and are used to detect if a car has been repainted. more often then not a car is repainted because of an accident or some other significant damage.... therefore reducing the value of the car.

i guess the way they look at is is 99% of people who drive cars are not enthusiasts, so some minor rock chips, small dings, etc., wouldnt be grounds for 99% of people to shell out the extra cash to fix such minor things. based on their reasoning the only time you would get a car, or portion of a car, repainted is if there was some major kind of damage. carfax and those types of services only show damage is reported. if you smash up a car, dont tell insurance, and pay out of your own pocket to fix it, how would carfax ever know that? its a good tool but checking paint thickness is a supplement to it.

 

After some more thought on it, I decided to ask for a longer warranty and got a 2-year 24K extended warranty in lieu of the certification and paint job.