What do you do few days before warranty expires?

When your warranty is about to expire in a few days, is there anything you should do to make sure everything about your machine is going to be all right after it expires?

(Oh, by the way, not that I plan to do, but just curious: how much does Lenovo charge for an extension of 1 more year warranty? I assume you can't get a new warranty after the original has already expired, right?)

 

I believe you're allowed one warranty extension. (IE, your laptop comes with a 1 year, you're allowed to purchase a 1-year to 3-year upgrade (or a 1 to 4 upgrade), if your laptop came with a 3-year, youre allowed to purchase a 3-year to 4-year). However, you're only allowed one. If you purchase a base 1 year, and then upgrade from 1 to 3, you're not allowed to upgrade the 3 to 4 later on.

 

it's much, much less expensive to purchase an in-warranty extension than a post-warranty extension.   if you only have a few days left and want to purchase a warranty extension, call sales as soon as possible before it expires.

 

Slightly different question about how Lenovo handle warranties.

Can I extend the warranty for a second time. i.e. I have 1yrs + 2yrs extension can it be extended for another time. If I want additional(total 5yrs) 2 years of warranty can I do it? Or do they forces you to buy the out of warranty extension or something like that?

 

If you want you can use the Lenovo ToolBox to run diagnostics and stress all the hardware to insure peek performance.

 

I found the warranty extension on Lenovo's site. It says " Note that these upgrades do start, retroactively, to the purchase date of your system. " So it seems that means, if you already have a 2 year warranty, you must purchase the 3-yr warranty in order to extend for 1 year?

P.S. Marcham93: I tried to install the Toolbox, got message that it's already installed, but I don't see it anywhere, either in Thinkvantage, or Add or Remove Programs in control panel? Where can I find it and run?

 

Press the blue Thinkvantage button while you are in windows. If toolbox is install, it should launch.

 

Yes, but they have different pricing depending on the initial warranty of your system. The product code to purchase a (base) 1 year to (extended) 3 year is different from that of extending a (base) 2 year to (extended) 3 year warranty.

 

i normally run diagnostics. saved me on my previous dell, the hard drive had bad sectors. they sent me a new one

 

I guess I have sworn off Dell machines;
two of the laptops that I've owned have overheated/fried on or around warranty expiration. Called Dell support and they've asked me to pay 250 to extend for 1 more year.
It's just not cost effective at the eleventh hour - there are better machines coupla years down the road.

 

i've always found dell's to be reliable, especially their business line, and their support way ahead of any other brand when something does go wrong, their prosupport warranty is really a league above, and when they first launched the XPS models, they gave them with a 24/7 5 hour response onsite warranty (think it was free for a while during a promo, my sister's XPS 1210 has this)