Enter a VIN, or pick the car yourself. Get what it costs to fix any 2014–2026 vehicle — parts and labor, broken out job by job — plus what's statistically likely to break next, and an honest read on whether an extended warranty is worth the money.
Get an honest cost to benefit assessment, based on your Year, Make, Model and Mileage, to know if an extended warranty is a good fit for you. There are over 278 administrators that provide coverage and they range in price, coverage and terms.
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How these numbers are built. Each job starts from a national baseline parts price and book labor hours, then gets adjusted for your make's parts pricing, body size, engine configuration, labor-rate region, shop type and parts source. Labor = book hours × your rate × an access-difficulty factor for the brand. The low–high range reflects normal shop-to-shop spread. Likelihood comes from a Weibull wear model centred on each component's typical service life, scaled by how many vehicles ever need that repair at all, then adjusted by the brand's repair-frequency record and the condition you selected.
About the VIN decoder. Characters 4–8 of a VIN carry the model, engine and body, but each manufacturer assigns that block privately — there is no public formula. So the decoder does what it can locally (check digit, model year from character 10, manufacturer from the first three) and asks NHTSA's free public vPIC database for the rest. With a connection you get model, engine, transmission and drivetrain filled in automatically; without one you still get year and make, and you pick the model. Nothing about your VIN is stored or sent anywhere except that NHTSA lookup.
How the warranty evaluator works. It reads the number of open NHTSA recall campaigns on record for that exact year, make and model and grades the result, with a set of brands whose repair costs are high enough that coverage is advised regardless of recall history. Recall counts come from the same NHTSA dataset behind the rest of The Lemon Report. Coverage terms vary enormously between the 278+ administrators in this market, so treat the verdict as a starting position and price the specific plan on its own merits.
This is a planning tool, not a quote. Real prices swing with your exact trim, local parts availability and what the technician finds once the car is apart. Contract terms vary enormously between the 278+ administrators in this market — read the exclusions, the claims process and the cancellation clause before you sign. Always get a written repair estimate, and on any used-car purchase pay for an independent pre-purchase inspection.
