Suburban heater extended coverage

[Mch5jdm]

Does anyone have any experience with needing to purchase an extended warranty on the heater thru Suburban? Is it potentially useful or do they rarely die?

[SeaDog]

The main part of the furnace like the fire box are almost bullet proof other parts like the circuit board and igniter are a roll of the dice. It really depends on what the extended warranty costs compared to the cost of the unit.

[UT_Grandpa]

I had a 24 year old popup trailer that had a good working furnace. My new TT has started making a chirpy bearing noise and is in for warranty work now - hopefully they will repair the motor noise/replace furnace but the dealer might want to call it normal - I don't know yet. Would love to have the dealer sleep one night in my TT.

The warranty covers only the heat exchanger and it rarely fails so maybe this is not a good deal. My experience is that most failures are the thermocouple, fan, gas control valve and ignitor board which are not covered.

[Iwritecode]

Looks like it's $30 to extend it from 5 years to 7 years. That's not horrible.

[Iwannacamp]

As stated.... there isn't much to go wrong. I had a board go out on my old unit and I had to buy one of them. They will "rust up" if you don't use them much and dirt dobbers will build in there if they can.

$30 is nothing if it makes you feel better.

[5picker]

With some of our older 5th wheels, we owned them 6-8-10 years and never a problem with the furnace.

Even with not having an issue, today's stuff just isn't built like yesterday's stuff so for $30, I bought the extended warranty. Hope I never have to use it. (the warranty)

[Bluepill]

Just remember that ALL extended repair contracts are money-makers for the seller, so ON AVERAGE you are better off being "self-insured".

It's just like Las Vegas - All those fancy casinos were not built with winner's money.

[Mch5jdm]

Thanks for all the good feedback and after further though I think I am simply going to use 17 of the thirty to get a 30 pack and the remaining change on a couple scratch offs. Might get lucky in multiple ways. Haha