Hello all! Tuesday I bought my first Spyder. It's a 2021 RT Limited with under 400 miles. Planning on changing the oil and filter and checking all the maintenance items. Owned a Ryker for the last 4 years, I always wanted a Spyder though. I'm in Vancouver, Washington. Love living here.
Considering buying a warranty on the machine because it has sat for 4 years. What are your thoughts? Also what are things I should consider inspecting or replacing? Thanks in advance for your wisdom. I'm so happy to find this forum and look forward learning and enjoying my Spyder.
Congrats on your new to you Spyder, and to joining the Wonderful World of Spyder Ryders with the 'Miles of Smiles' grins (and SpyderLvers too, of course!)
As for
that bit ^ - I don't think you can buy any warranty that's worth the $$ if the Spyder's original OEM warranty has expired, as the 'BEST Warranty' (that's it's name, and it is honoured by all Can Am On Road dealers, and is the only post OEM warranty that's provided/backed by BRP), can only be purchased
BEFORE the OEM warranty cuts off, and that normally happens at 1 or 2 years, depending upon the current deal when it was originally sold.
So if your 'new to you' Spyder doesn't still have a valid & current OEM Original Purchase warranty &/or already have a BEST Warranty (get any Can Am Dealer to check the VIN) then there's no real value or benefit in you buying a post purchase warranty.
Here in Oz, there's moves afoot to ban these 'add-on warranty' things as nothing but a rip-off; because
ALL the State & Fed Consumer Advocate organisations and Motoring Associations etc have identified them as being either outright scams or of far less value than their cost; basically just a case you giving the dealer a fist full of money for jam cos you believed the BS scheme someone has devised to make them more profit when selling you a vehicle, and all those organisations
strongly advise buyers not to be suckered in! So unless you can verify from many other actual buyers/users that it's not just a rather expensive 'servicing agreement' with so many restrictions and limitations on what it'll do or where it will be honoured that it'll be nothing much more than a rip off and you'll never get any value from it,
then DON'T BUY IT!! 
Here in Oz, the general advice is that if you want to spend the sort of $$ those warranty's normally cost on defraying any possible potential future service/repair costs, you'd be
MUCH BETTER OFF by sticking the money you would've paid for such a warranty into sock and stuffing it into your bottom drawer until it's needed (btw, I've got a drawer full if cash stuffed socks now, from all the vehicles I've owned that never needed the dealer's add-on 'extended warranty'
); or maybe better yet, you should put that cash into an interest bearing deposit somewhere so that you can use it if/when it's ever required, rather than blowing it in advance of a fairly unlikely event that you'll ever really need it (if you keep up the scheduled maintenance) only to be told if/when you do ever try to use it that, "Sorry, but this particular warranty specifically excludes your circumstances because (insert stupid BS reason of their choice here)", or discovering that the particular dealer your Spyder is now at while awaiting repair either never did subscribe or no longer subscribes to that particular brand of 'give the dealer a fist full of money for jam cos I was a sucker of a buyer who believed the BS scheme!'
Just Sayin'
