Andy_W
Well-known member
Might be for you (and me also), but my bet is >95% don't know how to do a basic filter change. I've known timing belts/ cambelts write off cars with 50k miles on them, and I've had electronics in about 3 ICE cars disable them completely (all outside warranty, none of them were cheaper than £1,000 to fix).
I would go to the dealer, as my car has an 8 year/ 100k miles warranty, and it won't cost me a penny. My servicing is only £200 a year too. See what the warranty and servicing cost is on a decent ICE Suv, after 4 years/ 50k miles. My bet is no warranty left and some services costing near £750, well it's not a bet, as I've had it on about 10 cars. No more discs and pads for me either, add that to the list, I can do those myself also, but for 99% of people that's a garage job every 3-5 years.
I've never had to pay for a software update, never had to go into the garage for one either, just get a notification every few months that one happened when I was asleep. Seemingly Tesla (who have been doing this a while) have been giving them out for free, and improving their cars for nearly a decade.
You last paragraph also applies to ICE's (with more parts outside the warranty). If you can't get a manufacturer to abide by their own T's&C's, that's your fault, I've never had any warranty issue (as in a problem not claiming it) on any car, other than where I've not used manufacturer parts, but even then I still got covered. You're more likely to have an issue using a non-dealer/ specialist if they're not using manufacturer approved parts. Again, been there, been doing that for 20 years. My battery is covered to be >90% capacity after 8 years/ 100k miles, they're very specific on that. There is a reserve which can be tapped into with a software update (which is free), so could find that there's no useable range loss, in that time and could actually go up with software updates. It's irrelevant to me I'll be swapping every few years anyway, as the TCO savings make it so simple to do this, and all the time getting the latest tech and comforts. After another two changes there will be no new ICE cars to buy, and after one more change (around 2025) the ICE market will be much smaller (as all manufacturers are saying).
You're talking like none of us have owned an ICE vehicle, I've had about 20 (missus has had about 10), I've still got another (as a toy), and the missus is ICE too, and run another 4/5 in my company fleet (vans/ wagons).
I don't actually know anyone who has got an EV and then gone back to ICE, and only seen one or two mentions of it in this thread, says a lot, considering every EV owner on here has probably had 10-20 ICE cars, given the average age of users on here.
My mate just sold the EV he got new, for 15% more than he paid for it, and he's gone and bought another EV unsurprisingly.
