New basic EV truck

[Oaktree]

In the case of an EV with no dealer system, IMPO the owners are screwed when anything in the propulsion system fails. Normal mechanics wont touch it in my experience.

Dealerships that carry EV's are required to have trained technicians to service them.

Maybe true, but he was asking about alternatives to bringing it to a dealer.

Then again, according to the EV fanboys EVs never break so it's a moot point.

" In Wisconsin, auto manufacturers are prohibited from selling directly to consumers. Instead, they must sell their vehicles to dealerships, which then sell them to the public."

Not to say that I enjoy the "dealership experience", but I do like to take my time looking when I'm vehicle shopping. Kick the tires so to speak, take a test drive, see how comfortable it is, how intuitive the controls are (or in many cases these days aren't), etc. Having to order a vehicle online is a deal killer for me.

Some greedy dealers tacked on huge markups above MSRP in recent years.

Greedy dealers have always tacked on huge markups on high-demand vehicles.

To give a personal example, I own a GM vehicle in which the infotainment system has been buggy since day 1. GM has not managed to fix the bugs in over a decade, despite some of them being pretty fundamental, e.g. no heat. That lack of repair (for whatever cause) doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies about GM's ability to write code, nor their post sales commitments to customers. So, yeah, I'm never considering GM again. Despite initially denying the sales, GM's quietly, and illegally selling customer driving and location data doesn't help my warm and fuzzies, either.

Good luck with that. It seems that most manufacturers are in the same boat, actually from what I've seen and read GM's system is one of the better ones. Everyone jumped on the high tech interior bandwagon, but few, if any have gotten it right. It's either buggy, clumsy and unintuitive or a combination of the two.

I don't like automakers selling that info either, but good luck trying to avoid it.

 

[EddieWalker]

My success with YouTube videos has been very limited. I'm probably somewhere around 10% fixing something after watching a bunch of videos.

My wife's minivan was overheating. I looked on YouTube and in a dozen videos, they all said it was one of three things. Almost every video was the same. They showed how to test to see which sensor was bad, and even how to replace them. I ended up replace all three sensors without fixing the problem. My mechanic found the problem and fixed it in an hour. It had nothing to do with those sensors, it was and AC issue.

My zero turn wouldn't start. 26hp Kawasaki engine that was used in a bunch of different brand mowers. I've been watching videos almost every day to figure it out. It's been three weeks, and I still don't have it running right. I have progressed to getting it to start, and then run, but I still can't mow with it.

The thought of doing my own repairs on an Electric Vehicle is like performing surgery on myself. It's just not going to happen.

 

[2manyrocks]

Evs have enough voltage to kill someone. Doing the wrong thing could fry more parts of the system and these parts are not cheap.