Hyundai set to offer seven-year warranty in Australia, backdated to 1 January 2025

Hyundai Australia is on the cusp of asserting that it will supply its contemporary vehicles with a seven-year guarantee with limitless kilometres within the Australian market, shifting from the contemporary 5-year/limitless kilometre guarantee introduced in 1999.

Chasing Autos understands that the seven-year guarantee will most definitely be backdated to quilt all Hyundai vehicles purchased in Australia since 1 January 2025.

Don Romano, who commenced as chief govt officer and president of Hyundai Motor Company Australia (HMCA) seven weeks within the past, is supportive of a push to elongate the guarantee that been within the authorities approval segment for some months.

HMCA has beforehand used a seven-year guarantee in Australia on a spread of times as a restricted-time rep incentive.

While the seven-year guarantee has now no longer but received final signal-off, final preparations are being made for a formal announcement – no matter ragged HMCA chief working officer John Kett telling media in 2023 a seven-year guarantee would “by no attain” happen.

Seven-year faulty guarantee, in preference to Nissan/Mitsubishi kind extended guarantee

The dazzling print of contemporary automobile warranties differs between automobile manufacturers, and it’s turning into a more frequent notify to present a faulty 5-year guarantee extendable if the buyer services the auto with its maker or meets other stipulations.

Hyundai has opted against that design and could presumably per chance as an different notify a seven-year faulty guarantee, though it calm has to notify authorities approval for a protracted guarantee because it’s known to be planning to backdate protection to encompass existing vehicles bought in 2025.

MG presents a 10 year/250,000km faulty guarantee in Australia, while Kia and GWM each and every provide seven years/limitless kilometres of protection, albeit with mileage limits of 150,000km kicking in for commercial vehicles.

Nissan is currently promoting a 10 year/300,000km guarantee in Australia, nonetheless the faulty guarantee is 5 years/limitless kilometres. At any time when an proprietor services the auto with Nissan yearly from the 5 year tag, an additional year of guarantee is utilized to the auto.

A identical association is in establish at Mitsubishi, where the particular faulty guarantee is 5 years and correct 100,000km – nonetheless annual servicing with Mitsubishi dealers from the 5 year tag extends the guarantee by 365 days/20,000km to a most of 10 years/200,000km.

Whether Hyundai’s seven-year guarantee will establish limits on mileage for commercial customers remains to be seen.

Thought to backdate seven-year guarantee for all of 2025

“My preference would be to bask in a faulty guarantee that used to be longer (than 5 years) and more competitive than some of those manufacturers which bask in executed extensions,” Romano told Chasing Autos.

“If you lengthen a guarantee for 2 years, it requires authorities approval on account of it’s now no longer segment of the conventional faulty guarantee. That (approval task) can take dangle of up to a year.

“My preference would be to bask in a faulty guarantee that used to be longer and more competitive with some of those manufacturers which bask in executed extensions.”

The cause late backdating the guarantee is legendary by Chasing Autos to be in elaborate to prevent Australian potentialities delaying their rep of a Hyundai in elaborate to serve for the seven year guarantee to kick in – as an different, it will notify to vehicles bought now.

When Hyundai introduced a 5 year guarantee in 1999, two or three year guarantees remained the norm in Australia. Now, 5 years of protection is the industry same old.

For contemporary HMCA boss Romano, offering a protracted guarantee is segment and parcel with “future-proofing” Hyundai against glitzy presents from contemporary manufacturers.

“I will function whatever I even bask in to withhold out to receive us transferring in that direction, as the largest thing I will function in my three years is to switch the tag ahead and to future-proof the tag as mighty as seemingly against all these contemporary entries coming in,” Romano told Chasing Autos.