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- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
No surprise from Land Rover though, the least reliable brand on the UK market and amongst the most over- priced.
Electric cars long term owners
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- Lincolnshire
Might be a silly question, but can you not remove all batteries , connect leads together and carry on using just the engine?
Thanks. This is a possibility. Just looking into options.
First waiting to hear back from Landrover to see what they can do towards it.
Found that there are people who do repairs. Should hopefully be under 1/4 price of replacement.
Farmers all think alike.
First thing I asked.Said not possible but must be a way. Things like it doesn't have an alternator make it less straight forward but sure could be done and computers reprogrammed to ignore it.
That's quite a hit no doubt, and a shocking cost. I didn't think there were 7 year old hybrid RRs out there yet, but google tells me they've been about since 2013. Time flies.
Cost would be about the same as it would cost these days for a main dealer to repair the common crankshaft failure issue I'd have thought, which if you believe online forums, has affected every 3.0 TDV8 LR engine out there. Not that this helps you.
As someone else has said- I'd look to get it to a battery specialist for a look.
Here's one from a 4 year old breaker to start-
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Think this will be most likely route. Get 2nd hand one or repair this one. Then flog car asap.
Have saved around 5k in fuel and road tax costs since owning it which will help with this.
To be fair it has not had a penny spent on it in repairs bar normal stuff like brake pads etc.
Everything still works as day bought it which is maybe unusual for Land rover products.
Would have another RR Sport again if Landrover look after me. Just not an electric or hybrid.
Any seemingly bargain 2nd hand hybrid vehicles for sale my advice is steer well clear.
(Unless anyone wants to buy mine )
Have saved around 5k in fuel and road tax costs since owning it which will help with this.
To be fair it has not had a penny spent on it in repairs bar normal stuff like brake pads etc.
Everything still works as day bought it which is maybe unusual for Land rover products.
Would have another RR Sport again if Landrover look after me. Just not an electric or hybrid.
Any seemingly bargain 2nd hand hybrid vehicles for sale my advice is steer well clear.
(Unless anyone wants to buy mine
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- Scottish Highlands
I think it yet needs a different mindset and a revised understanding from mechanics. In all likelihood it’s a £10 part that’s broken, possibly even less.
We just need the support chain to develop in pace with the new technology.
We just need the support chain to develop in pace with the new technology.
Paddington
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- Soggy Shropshire
Anyone ever repaired a drill battery ? Make a note of all the connections, desolder all connections, check each cell, find 2 or 3 that have gone down, get replacements and fit them after buying a bigger soldering iron for £60. Then find after a couple of weeks, the battery not charging fully...throw battery in bin and buy a new one at £80. There must be an awful lot of cells in an electric car battery.
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- Scottish Highlands
The independent garage shaping Britain's EV repair network | Autocar
Maintaining EVs requires specialist training and a lot of detective work, for which Hevra was formed. John Evans meets some of its members at Good Guys Garage
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- North Norfolk
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- Lincolnshire
Going to have a look at one of these Kia e Niro jobs to replace the leaf. Bigger range, more space in the back etc.
Like the look of them- but dealer told me expect 12m lead time in early March. Didn't bother trying to drive one on that basis. Best of luck.
EDIT- my bad- 12 months was the EV6, not E Niro
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- Lincolnshire
We'd probably just try and but their demo car.
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Electric car supplies are running out – and could drastically slow down the journey to net-zero
Governments may be forced to put back deadlines to shift away from petrol and diesel.
theconversation.com
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- Shropshire
Also, if you spend the whole time slowing down, you never get there!
The trouble with going onto the Conversation website is that there are a lot of other articles that are much more interesting and informative than the one you’ve postedElectric car supplies are running out – and could drastically slow down the journey to net-zero
Governments may be forced to put back deadlines to shift away from petrol and diesel.
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- South Wales UK
cosmiccrofter
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- Morayshire
2wd and a low payload, won't sell many to business customers.
- Location
- South Wales UK
Under 1 tonne commercial class too
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- Lincolnshire
Traded in the leaf for a petrol car. Sad. Over it's seven years we put close to 120k miles on it. Total cost per mile c12 pence, that's electric, tin, tyres, service and insurance. But a new leaf of the same spec with longer range was about £35k, with PCP working out close to 75p per mile!