Can one buy a Miele warranty from an authorized dealer? In my recent dishwasher purchase from an authorized dealer, the dealer told me to go directly to Miele for the Miele warranty purchase.

Normally I never buy third party warranties...but I have had such good experiences with square trade quickly reimbursing me for iphone/ipad repairs that were done at the apple store (they never tried to make me use their own repair service. Has anyone used a square trade appliance warranty?

You cannot by a Miele warranty from the authorized dealer. The best thing to do is the go to the Miele web site, read the warranty . It use to be that if you bought the product from an authorized dealer the regular warranty was increased to two years instead of one. I don't know if that is still the way it works. I bought my DW from an authorized dealer and got a two year warranty on it, then at the end of two years I bought the Miele warranty for 5 more years. Best thing is to go to the Miele website and research it.

The Miele extended warranty for their washing machine ($319 on the Miele site) is somewhat ambiguous in its phrasing :

“This Service Agreement shall commence immediately upon expiration of the shortest portion of the manufacturer's original written warranty. If for example, the manufacturer provides a split warranty coverage program wherein the term durations are unequal for parts and labor (e.g., three months of labor and twelve months of parts coverage), and You have purchased a 12 month (365 days) extended service agreement, this plan shall commence on day 91 when the shortest portion of the manufacturer's warranty ends and will provide labor coverage through day 455. Both parts and labor coverage under this Service Agreement shall expire at the end of day 455.”

what I can’t quite figure out is what happens when you have your washer installed by an authorized Miele installer. The original warranty from Miele is 1 year. Having it installed by the authorized installer adds another year to the warranty. So will the five year extended warranty give you a total of 6 years of coverage or 7?

You can buy a Miele extended warranty from an authorized Miele dealer. The extended warranty will extend the warranty to 5 full years parts and labor.

With Miele, only go with Miele waranty. Others are useless as they do not have the diagnostics required to service Miele products nor do they have the ability to replace should that be necessary. Shame on the dealer for suggesting this. If he sells Miele he should know.