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We had a service contract on both of our Fleetwood's and we have one on our Thor ACE. Shop well by both price and coverage. Ours has paid for itself for each unit--replaced A/C's, water heaters, electric stair, and other items that break. BUT and that is a an all cap BUT, if your repair shop doesn't know the proper words to use to file a claim you may loose out. My RV shop tells me it always is in the presentation and that otherwise valid claims are turned down or have the price knocked down because the test results are not supplied or descriptions of the failure don't use the terminology the service contract guys seek. Check with your repair shop (hopefully not your dealer) and ask what their experience has been. It should be helpful. We did not use Good Sam for any of our contracts, and some insurers are much better than others. We used a private agency with multiple coverage and company options and selected the best one for our expected needs.
When we moved to a full slide coach we just considered the cost of an extended service contract as part of the sale price and budgeted accordingly. Slide and jack repairs can be expensive, especially when on vacation! Fortunately we haven't had our slide breakdown on a trip (yet) but we have had enough other repairs (and we have a $25 deductible per visit not per item so we group repairs together) to have covered the cost of our current service contract and it's still in force for another year. We have never have a covered repair denied, and our contract excludes less than most.
Thanks for asking specifically about experience with extended service contracts and not opening the Pandora's box about buying them in the first place.
Hope this helped.
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