xbox 360 warranty extension for 3 light error

just been reading this may be of use to some peoplel aparantly the 3 light error message has gotten rather common with 360's sooo microsfot ar extending the warranty to 3 years to cover the 3 light errors also sais id you have paid to get this fixed you may be able to get yoru money back.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...273967,00.html

yay for microsoft

HMM but will it cover drive failure. Mines starting to have real difficulty even knowing what type of discs are in it, nevermind loading them.

that was decent of them., and to think i was gonna rip my 360 apart and tinker with it.,lol, now its back in warrenty.,

yeah they can be good sometimes, i remember when the original xbox came out it was around 300 at laucnh, few months later they reduced price by about 100. and if you had paid the earlier big price and coudl prove it they sent you games and goods (joypads) to make up for the extra you paid.


not sure abou the drive thing seems like it may be specif extension to deal with the three light error, but worth asking .

300 quid? it was near 900 over here at launch., was a joke., but good of them to send people stuff to make up the difference., i remember the recall on the power leads aswell, they had mine out to me really quick, within a couple of days and came from the neatherlands iirc.,

So what are the issues?

i would be surprised if its alimited warrenty.eg i would expect anything covered now in the 1 year one to extend into 3.
@ luvduvs its all over the net,many issues on the 360 but mainly can be attributed to poor mobo cooling/heatsink assembly

Well I saw this at a shop today (embarrassing IMO):

those are used and abused consoles though,, cant see why it would be imbarassing really., have you ever felt the controller on one of them? they completely smooth and shiney for the amount of use they get.,lol

that can be caused by a dvd drive error.as simple as a disc not properly inserted on boot

Yeh but they should have at least turned the thing off so they won't turn potential buyers away..

depends if they are sony fan boys

Well at least Microsoft was responsive enough to extend the warranty - something perhaps Fiat can learn from?

well microsoft are "usually" relaible so they extended it, imagine if fiat did the same., pmsl they'd be bankrupt in week.,lol

Exactly - which probably explains why they suck at customer service.