Long time no post! Why? Because iMiev. "It just works!" No Drama, no failures nothing but drive and charge. Well, I did take it into the dealer for a bunch of airbag and brake system recalls, but they only had it for about 5 hours and they even washed, vacuumed and charged it. No $charge$. That's the total maintenance for the four years I've had it, excluding wiper blades and washer fluid.
I can (and have) gone almost 70 miles on my 60 mile range iMiev after 4 years of use. The battery is still going strong. Nothing to see here, move along. Resale value is down to around $7K but given that they were selling new ones for $9K two years ago, that's not so bad.
EDIT 2022: Still in the family. Still running strong.
Just had it's big birthday: 10 years since manufacturing. Huzzah!
Closing in on 50,000 miles. Still goes 60+ miles/charge in good conditions. We've had to replace tires, windshield wipers, wiper fluid and the 12V 'house' battery ($90). That's it for total maintenance over 10 years. There's a 'wear' mark on the edge of the driver's seat, the visor is slightly loose. The rear seat 'flop-down' control is sticky. Yep, that's about it. Been to the dealer exactly once (above).
Closing in on 50,000 miles. Still goes 60+ miles/charge in good conditions. We've had to replace tires, windshield wipers, wiper fluid and the 12V 'house' battery ($90). That's it for total maintenance over 10 years. There's a 'wear' mark on the edge of the driver's seat, the visor is slightly loose. The rear seat 'flop-down' control is sticky. Yep, that's about it. Been to the dealer exactly once (above).
It's used a bit over 12,000KWh (estimate) costing roughly $1500 to drive ten years including a total of 14 trips to public chargers. We know many people that exceed that $1500 in gas purchases Per Year!
"What, 14? You don't get out much do ya?"
To which we say:
Long distances, in this car? are you crazy?
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