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1 posted on 12/09/2023 6:07:45 AM PST by lowbridge
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"...took his 2014 Infiniti hybrid to a dealership for a check engine light."

Just put a little piece of duct tape over the "check engine light". Problem solved.

2 posted on 12/09/2023 6:12:26 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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What does it cost to scrap a hybrid/full electric vehicle?


3 posted on 12/09/2023 6:17:14 AM PST by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.)
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If a normal hybrid battery replacement is $1000 to $8000, this looks like greedflation in action.


4 posted on 12/09/2023 6:17:45 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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You can buy two fairly decent gasoline guzzlers for that much money and they’ll last you for several years each. I find it hilarious to watch delivery drivers tooling around in their Tesla or Benz delivering pizza... Seriously?


6 posted on 12/09/2023 6:25:00 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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took his 2014 Infiniti hybrid to a dealership

Was it under warranty [NO!]? Then don't do that.

7 posted on 12/09/2023 6:25:04 AM PST by AndyJackson
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Remove the battery and just use the engine , you may need a few hacks ,LOL


8 posted on 12/09/2023 6:25:14 AM PST by butlerweave
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How much of that is the haz-mat disposal fee? I'm still reading that nobody has come up with a way to safely recycle these things.
11 posted on 12/09/2023 6:29:05 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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Don’t think of it as $20,000, think of it as an investment to fight Climate Change and save the Planet……. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


12 posted on 12/09/2023 6:34:55 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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My friend, who bought a new Hyundai Sonata Hybrid last year got rearended last week.

So now he is having trouble finding a repair shop who will agree to fix it.

And, by the way, this same friend was one of the first people to get the Moderna vaxx jab and he has had major health problems since then.

Lesson to the rest: “It is not a good idea to be the first person to buy some new and untested product.”


14 posted on 12/09/2023 6:38:50 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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Folks who can’t be bothered to research costs associated with the vehicle they’re looking to purchase deserve what they get.

Caveat emptor.


15 posted on 12/09/2023 6:41:02 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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I’ve met a number of people with hybrid cars who will never buy another hybrid again.


17 posted on 12/09/2023 6:42:30 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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But he does get $20,000 of Virtue Signals.


18 posted on 12/09/2023 6:42:56 AM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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Not only that, if an EV’s batteries catch fire in your garage, bye bye house. Those battery fires are almost impossible to put out.


19 posted on 12/09/2023 6:44:39 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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I know the feeling, had to replace the sparkplugs last week and set me back $60.


20 posted on 12/09/2023 6:45:01 AM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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When the Nazi Klaus Schwab and World Enslavement Forum takeover the world in 2030 there will be no cars and everyone will have to wear a uniform ,Oh and eat bugs


21 posted on 12/09/2023 6:46:02 AM PST by butlerweave
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Remember how we blew the crud out of our carburetors on a straightaway with no cops around? No cost maintenance, and some fun.


24 posted on 12/09/2023 6:52:13 AM PST by ryderann
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Find another dealer. Crooks abound.

A friend inherited a HD 1200 Sportster. It had been in a garage for 5 years. He took it to an HD dealer and they told him that it would cost $5000 to make it road ready. He tells me this and I laugh. I got it going for him for about $300. Oil, filters, battery, brake fluid, new gas, carb cleaner. Tires were good.

Ripoffs abound in the transport industry. Always seek another opinion.


25 posted on 12/09/2023 6:57:13 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Compare with conventional car.
Replaced the one for my ‘19
Sentra yesterday. $190 installed
at Pep Boys.


28 posted on 12/09/2023 7:03:28 AM PST by raccoonradio
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I love this item.
So full of BS and euphemism’s

+ for those looking for a used hybrid, look out
https://www.edmunds.com/infiniti/q50/2014/hybrid/

ENGINE TYPE: DOHC 24-valve 3.5-liter V-6, 302 hp, 258 lb-ft; permanent-magnet AC synchronous electric motor, 67 hp, 214 lb-ft; combined power rating, 360 hp; 1.4-kWh lithium-ion battery pack

https://www.infinitiq50.org/threads/2014-hybrid-li-ion-battery-pack-replacement.132615/
Basically I was told that there is an issue with one of the battery modules but it’s gonna cost me 12k just for the parts because they need to replace the whole battery pack.

https://www.infinitipartsdeal.com/parts-list/2014-infiniti-qx60-hybrid/body_electrical/electric_vehicle_battery.html

An Arizona car owner was duped by false advertising + Climate hysteria and fear

... for a check engine light.... AKA the money light

.. $18,000 for the battery and another $2,000 to have it installed... run, its a money pit

.. less than 70,000 miles on it ... that battery baked in the AZ heat, and now its shot.

...According to Nerdwallet,... Nerdwallet does not know its a$$ from page 3

Electric and hybrid vehicle batteries are warrantied for eight years or 100,000 miles. Batteries start to lose capacity after you drive off the lot. Q. How many useful KwH do you have at 100,000 miles?

According to Brauer, the batteries regularly last much longer. Brauer is a dimwit

“It’s not uncommon for these batteries to last 15-plus years and more than 150,000 miles,” Brauer said. Brauer has never opened an owners forum, see link above. EPA told me I could get 38 mpg from my car. Still waiting for that dream to come true

..“So, $20,000 or a pile of scrap metal in my driveway,”.. Park it on your lawn, your neighbours will forever be reminded you care about mother urth


29 posted on 12/09/2023 7:03:38 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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It gets expensive to “save da planet”.


30 posted on 12/09/2023 7:03:58 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The damage Biden and his freak show is doing to America is not reversable.)
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