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I stopped servicing my Leaf when the warranty ran out. £200 to kick the tyres from Nissan seems a waste of money. There are no drivetrain service parts (other than a diff oil change at over 100k miles).
The real question is when to get rid. The range is now not quite enough in the winter to do all the stuff we want to do.
A car restructure beckons next year. Mid life crisis coincides!
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The range is now not quite enough in the winter to do all the stuff we want to do.
Google says the batteries are £4k (~£5k with £1k cashback).
If everything else is aok that might be an option. Initially that sort of number seems big when set against say, a 2nd hand Octavia, but given there should be little wear on the other items you'd expect modern electrics to do 250k easily with much lower serving costs. At that point it seems better value replacing the battery every 100k.
Long term I wonder if that is what the car market will look like. I also wondered if manufacturers would start offering facelifts on existing cars and building them to facilitate that - sort of like the way the OG Smart Cars were meant to be able to swap coloured panels. Idk if it would solve the savage environmental cost of consumers buying cars every 2yrs, but you do need something to help alter that behaviour as it's hard to see the economics changing any time soon
hugo7
Speaking of service departments; was reading something the other day about the reasons Toyota are holding out on BEVs as long as possible.
Essentially they're now the Lexmark printer business of the car world; they don't make money on the vehicles but on the aftermarket - servicing, parts etc.
With BEVs, that largely goes away and they won't make money any more. Be interesting to see how that does affect the affordable car market come 2030 etc.