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Cars.com needs $14,187 to repair its wrecked Chevy Volt
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| Jul 13th, 2011 at 8:01PM
| by Eric Loveday
Posted on 07/14/2011 6:23:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
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I can see now that the INSURANCE COSTS on these boondoggles is gonna be astronomical!........................
To: Red Badger
What is a “long-term” Volt?
A lease?
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:25:50 AM PDT
by
SengirV
To: Red Badger
The list of reasons NOT to buy one of these ridiculous things just keeps getting longer and longer.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:29:07 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
To: Red Badger
Anyone else out there have any experience in getting a Volt repaired? Is the author asking that question of both Volt owners?
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:29:36 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(Obama & Holder LLP, Procurers of fine arms to the most discerning drug lords (202) 456-1414)
To: Red Badger
They would’ve gotten a far better value by using the money to buy a 3-4 year old Honda Civic.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:30:39 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Red Badger
Not a lot of information here.
Initial price of the Volt?
Type of collision?
Amount of damage (not cost estimates, but physical amount)?
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:31:54 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Red Badger
All told, the Volt underwent nine weeks of extensive automotive surgery before it was ready for action.
In addition to all of the insurance costs, you had to pick up the tab for the rental for over two months. Unless you have rental on your insurance, and again that is only going to jack the rates up so high that it would be cheaper to just use the money to buy gas.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:32:53 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: SengirV
Cars.com does ‘long term’ road tests of vehicles and critiques them for their readers.....................
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:33:26 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(PEAS in our time? Obama cries PEAS! PEAS! when there is no PEAS!..........................)
To: SengirV
I fear that the sales figures of 300-400 per month gives you a pretty small universe to sample.
Maybe you should try sampling Delorean’s or Edsel’s.
To: ShadowAce
$14187 was the actual amount. 10k was the ‘estimate’................
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:34:18 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(PEAS in our time? Obama cries PEAS! PEAS! when there is no PEAS!..........................)
To: GonzoGOP
Nine weeks is a long time to be without your car..................
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:36:03 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(PEAS in our time? Obama cries PEAS! PEAS! when there is no PEAS!..........................)
To: GonzoGOP
Nine weeks? I think it would take a lot less time to build a new one. Write it off for the parts.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:36:46 AM PDT
by
Former Proud Canadian
(We .. have a purpose .. no longer to please every dictator with a vote at the UN. PM Harper)
To: Former Proud Canadian
Probablytook them that long to figure out a way to repair the thing without getting electrocuted, and I would bet a Chevy engineer had to reprogram the thing.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:40:27 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:45:47 AM PDT
by
FrankR
("If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat." - R. Reagan)
To: Red Badger
My friend has one of those eco-Lexus things, and two months after she bought it she was picking someone up at the airport, two hours from home, and it wouldn't start. She had to sit there for over an hour waiting for a service call b/c it can't be jumped like a real car.
Then, another time, some river rats gnawed through some wiring and it cost a few hundred bucks to fix. Apparently the wires are made of something yummy and biodegradable.
HA!
To: Vigilanteman
You are VERY correct on that assessment - saw a comparison of the economic and ecological “cost” to buy a new hybrid vs. a used car and for every new hybrid that comes off the line, the ecological “cost” is 10+ years to equal the used car.
Basically, it’ll take over 10 years owning that new little I-Feel-Good-About-Doing-My-Part P.O.S. before you have actually “done your part” ecologically. Economically? Well, this article definitely shows that repair costs are astronomical...not to mention that claims adjusters/body shops have to have special training on how to actually “touch” the car so they don’t get zapped.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:49:08 AM PDT
by
Dasaji
(On a beach somewhere in my head...)
To: synbad600
If this s the case, why would the government buy so many of them? And who will repair them?
Never mind... Dumb question.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:50:16 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(As long as the MSM covers for Obama, he will be above the law.)
To: Red Badger
As I reside in a country which put men on the moon, I KNOW for a fact, if left alone, industry will eventually produce an electric car which addresses all the current short comings.
HOWEVER, even if the perfect electric car is produced, how will we ever overcome the most vile president's promise that “ under my plan, energy rates will necessarily skyrocket” or be able to overcome the high percentage of political retards who elected him? This man and his minions have begun a cold war with the citizens of the USA and all too few are acknowledging this fact.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:50:56 AM PDT
by
Wurlitzer
(Welcome to the new USSA (United Socialist States of Amerika))
To: Roccus
Let alone expecting ANYONE on FR to own a (Re)Volt?!?
To: Red Badger
"...the damaged plug-in had no fewer than five heat exchangers..."
There could be more? Seems like a lot of energy wasted on heat with a Volt. Kind of explains the 40 mile range.
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