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I heard someone said that, at the end EV will cost you almost the same as gasoline vehicle, if you have to change the expensive battery every so often. Can someone please give me more info on this? Thank you so much.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm very curious about your experiences of having problems with ICE cars after 7 years ... I've never owned a car that's less than 10 years old, and have rarely had problems with them.

It's morbidly fascinating reading how rich people see the world ...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fuel pumps, exhaust systems, injectors, tuneups, new radiators, belt replacement are all very common after 7 years. Thankfully less common now, but still occurring on many vehicles are head gaskets, transmissions, motor mounts. None of these issues should effect EVs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I guess they wouldn't, but I wouldn't list most of that as being particularly arduous. I got my current car super cheap because it needed the head gasket, I changed it and it's yet to have any other real problem.

I guess I don't see cars as fungible, hell if I'd had my way I'd still be driving my first car which was 35 years old when I got it (and you can now get off-the-shelf electric conversions for them these days)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uh... have you ever owned a car long enough to need new injectors, radiators, or exhaust systems?

I've owned three vehicles that surpassed 400,000 miles, with one approaching 600,000 now. I've replaced a radiator once, and it was because of a small boulder tossed by a semi. Belts are usually less than $60, and are only replaced after 120,000 or so. Your average driver won't have to worry about those but once every 5-10 years. I've never had to replace a injector system (and if your dealer tries to sell you a service to 'flush' or 'clean' the injectors, decline; most auto manufacturers recommend not doing anything but replacing, as the service of cleaning/flushing is more likely to cause damage than actually be beneficial).

Fuel pumps are going to be brand-dependent. Don't buy ford, because good lord they suck and the pumps do go out, but again, I've never had to replace a fuel pump (my three are toyota, honda, and volkswagen).

If you pay for a tuneup, you're either racing or are a fool. One of those use cases isn't relevant to a discussion about the average person owning a vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Where do you live? Anywhere that has winter you will be certainly replacing a radiator long before that. I have not owned a vehicle that has made it past 250,000km without needing a new radiator and at least some exhaust work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You are describing statistically anomalies of automotive maintenance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Almost none of those issues effect an ICE vehicle after 10 years. I've only replaced exhaust systems when they're damaged, and fuel injectors are almost never changed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had all of these issues on my vehicles. Sure, some won't happen, but all can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Have you had all of them happen on a car less than ten years old?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My last vehicle, a Buick, had the engine crap out around 4 years. Something happened with one of the cylinders, can't remember what. I had to get it towed to a shop and it cost $2k for them to rebuild the engine. I know a major repair like that early into the life of the vehicle is uncommon, but these sorts of things do happen and you just gamble on it every time you buy a vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the warranty didn't cover it?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow. Like, I can buy a cheap Chinese motorcycle and it'll come with 3 years warranty, yet Buick can't manage 4

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's because they're not telling you the whole story. A bad engine not covered by warranty? That means they probably ran it out of oil or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quite possibly, along with another commenter who said ICE cars start to give problems at 70,000 miles.

Literally yesterday I was joking that my British friend's 2005 Seat Leon is just about broken in since it passed 250,000 miles. Still runs like clockwork apparently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ICE cars probably DO give them trouble, because they're the kind of person who refuses to take care of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The statistical maintenance costs for cars just go up over time, with some pretty big bumps generally every 60k miles or so you put on the car. There are just a ton of straight up wear components on ICEVs from spark plugs to belts to fluids, clutches, seals... if you get unlucky, you end up with a good chance of a semi-major repair or maintenance item every year. If you get lucky, then I guess you post about it on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm in Europe, we usually expect ICE cars to last 200,000km at least. My Dad's Peugeot had over 500,000km on it when he sold it, his 1991 Toyota's mileage is unknown since the Speedo cable broke over 10 years ago when it had 250,000km on it.

I got my little Clio cheaply because it needed the head gasket, fixing that took me one day and cost under 100€ to fix, and it's still running smooth 3 years and 50,000km later.

To throw things away just because they need a little repair seems terribly wasteful to me.