$5.99.................
How much did he pay for a truck?
Assuming the lights pulse at high frequencies to “conserve power”?
$5.99.................
That’s why it’s called the “bleeding edge”.
It’s very expensive to be “the first on your block”. A simple pocket calculator at Radio Shack back in the 1970ish time frame cost over $100. And that is in 1970 dollars.
This is obscene.
That said.. How old is this thing? They have not been put that long. Is it not under warranty?
It’s probably a function of not having the part in stock.
Anyone dumb enough to buy a Humvee truck to begin with should not complain. All of these vehicles are experimental.
...but he saves $20 a month on gas. Seems like a good enough tradeoff, at least for a few here.
It ain’t just EVs. Headlight and control module in our ‘07 S80 Volvo was over $1,500. Due to insulation failure in headlight. Volvo response? Sorry. That’s really too bad. But, paid for and can’t afford car notes any more soooo......
I have several older vehicles. I’m finding it difficult to source “working” parts for even common vehicles. With my Suburban I almost always took the part to the parts house to compare with the one they said would fit. Sometimes the parts had the same number but different connectors or screw locations. That’s with common, cheap cars. The cars today are wildly complex, and the parts will likely not be available even five years from now. There’s a row of Mercedes at the local pick and pull. They look like they could be on a high end used car lot. I asked and was told, “Well, that one needs a new engine...$15000. That one needs a transmission...$12000 and the rest need one or more computers, none of which are available. Used computers run up to several thousand and may or may not work and you won’t get your money back. Likely the diagnostics will go a bit further and tell you, ‘No, it’s this other computer.’”
Put some Unicorn dust on that tail light and drink a hot cup of hopeium and magic mushrooms. That will make buying that electric pile of poop seem like a good idea.
They’re over engineering these vehicles to the point where it creates chaos in every direction.
That’s not unique to EVs. In fact being an EV has nothing to do with taillight replacement cost.
It is not a bug, it is a feature.
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Talked to a neighbor the other day that bought a tesla Y model last year....he was bemoaning the fact that he just had to replace one tire at a cost of $400.
Along with 10 other reasons I just couldn’t bring myself to buy a car from a manufacturer that forces you to take it back to them for every little thing.
That’s progress
Vehicles of all kinds are far too complex. Nobody needs all the gadgetry in them. Nobody.
I wish I could buy a vehicle with only basic functions but still comfortable and reliable and efficient. I don’t need or want a big screen TV in the dash or any kind of entertainment system, no auto parking, no follow radar, no 360 cameras. None of that junk. Somehow I managed to drive millions of miles over the laast 50 years without any of this expensive and unreliable crap.
Why are all these stories about the latest generation of Hummer being overpriced, over powered, over sized, and over annoying, just like every other generation of Hummer, blaming it all on being electric? Like do you think the lights on previous Hummers were cheap? It’s a Hummer, big dumb vehicle for people with more money than sense. That’s been true for 30 years, diesel, gas and electric. The power source got not nothing to do with it.
Most cheaper mom and pop car repair shops won’t much about electric repair
Expensive dealers the only way