Gen4 Service Plan

When I bought my Jimny in January 2019, I took out a 5 year service plan. I have paid £21.85 a month, last payment was last January, but MOT & Service for Jan 2024 is covered by it.

I have just had a quote for a new 3 year service plan which come in at £49.26 a month (£1,576.49 in total). That is quite a leap in price!

I am wondering if the increase is mostly due to the new 1 year extended warranty with each dealer service?

I was on the phone to Emac, the third party company that runs the Service Plans, and he said "Ah, service 6 is a biggy as it is new belt and water pump." Now having looked in the workshop manual that is not a big job, nothing else needs stripping out to do it. Drain coolant, belt off, pulley off & water pump off. I know some cars it is recommended to replace the water pump whilst it is accessible as they can be hard to get to, but not in this case. Have they just included a generic item in the service?

Anyone else had new quotes for a service plan? Wish I'd have asked for a 10 year one now back in 2019 

I would phone a few Suzuki dealers and ask for a quote for each work package indicated.
I assume as it's a Suzuki dealer it keeps the warranty going?
Then do the maths and see if it adds up for your circumstances.

Sounds a lot to me for the services offered, but I don't understand the warranty benefits fully. Is this something you could take out with a third party company also? It may already be via a third party, when I looked once the extended warranty offered wasn't by the manufacturer, third party, but this was Citroen.

It doesn't need a water pump. It's not in the service schedule.

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That seems ludicrously expensive. Presumably you are doing high annual mileage to even consider such a plan?

Thanks fir the comments. I am going to ring my dealer today and ask the to explain the big increase, just to see what they say. I will also ask for the individual price of each service.

There is a new Suzuki dealer that opened last year a lot nearer to me, it is run by Premier, it used to be a Mazda dealer, they also have a Kia dealership over the road. I will get some prices of them.

Thirdly I will ask a good local independent garage and see what I get off them.

I don't do a lot of mile now, the first 12 months I did 12500, but since Lock-Down, it has been much less as I'm still working from home. Done 6000 miles this year.

I have just spoken to my dealer, and they said that Emac have by default quoted for the service plan that includes the extended warranty. I told them about the water pump and they said "that is a load of rubbish, we don't change it. He doesn't know what he's talking about." So that's cleared that bit up.

They have sent me a new quote that does not include the extended warranty, and that comes in at a total of £785.54, £22.44 a month for 3 services and MOTs. So that puts the average service price at £262.

New schedule below