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Chevy Volt a lemon for GM. Current administration makes sour lemonade.
- Thread starter wilburbear
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Not much. We already had one battery pack replaced. Some minor $10 parts weren't working correctly. Instead of fixing it, they overnighted a new battery pack and it was installed. Kind of cool to see the battery pack outside the car.Quote from GTS:
Do you know how degraded the battery would need to get to be eligible for warranty replacement?
But I guess you can believe what you want.
Quote from Sandybestdog:
Not much. We already had one battery pack replaced. Some minor $10 parts weren't working correctly. Instead of fixing it, they overnighted a new battery pack and it was installed. Kind of cool to see the battery pack outside the car.
But I guess you can believe what you want.
I dont doubt the warranty on the battery, I am more talking about the decay. A what point would the warranty kick in for decay purposes. When it only gets 45 miles per charge 40, 35?
Yes, that was exactly my question - I would still like to know the answer.Quote from Rehoboth:
I dont doubt the warranty on the battery, I am more talking about the decay. A what point would the warranty kick in for decay purposes. When it only gets 45 miles per charge 40, 35?
The battery pack is too expensive to leave this to a judgment call of the dealership service dept - it should be documented in writing what the threshold is.
I guess if you are worried about that, you just shouldn't buy one. But don't get jealous when your neighbor gets one and he tells you he's gone 2000 miles on one tank of gas.Quote from Rehoboth:
I dont doubt the warranty on the battery, I am more talking about the decay. A what point would the warranty kick in for decay purposes. When it only gets 45 miles per charge 40, 35?
How can you say what the threshold is? My customer just emailed me yesterday and said he can get 53 miles to a charge. John Doe over there blasts the AC, weaves in and out of traffic and is constantly seeing if he can improve his 0-60 time. He only gets 25 miles to a charge and then goes to his service department and complains that it's not getting the advertised average 35 miles anymore.Quote from GTS:
Yes, that was exactly my question - I would still like to know the answer.
The battery pack is too expensive to leave this to a judgment call of the dealership service dept - it should be documented in writing what the threshold is.
The simple answer is that when you go into service, which won't be much seeing how electric vehicles require very little maintenance compared to gas ones, they plug it into a computer and it reads all kinds of data off of your car. I'm sure there is a way for the computer to tell you if it is putting out the full amount of charge that it used to and is supposed to.