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Again, no wonder traditional dealers aren’t thrilled with BEV.
Yeah, it’s not surprising.
Their model is out-of-date and I’m glad I don’t have to interact with them anymore. I’ve even decided not to bother with a warranty repair at the dealer and will just do it myself. I save so much not going to the dealer two or three times a year already, so spending a bit to replace a part myself is worth not having to wonder how I’m being scammed.
I’m so spoiled with my lifetime MOPAR warranty. I don’t worry about what they tell me because I only pay my $100 deductible unless it’s a wearable. I don’t want to go back to worrying about repair costs.
I totally get that.
I hope Scout’s reliability is very high and that they’ve studied and learned from both the successful and unsuccessful launches of the many EVs out there. And I hope they have some good data analysts on staff to understand when data are showing survivorship biases vs real actionable data.
The plan at this point is my son will drive her. There’s a reason they stopped selling that warranty.
Nope. Once you sell it it’s done. We have to register it in our name for the warranty to stay in effect.
And I asked once what happens if the repair is more than the Jeep is worth. They send you a check for blue book, you get to keep the vehicle and the warranty is done.
The service department told me they have a guy with a Wrangler with 250,000 miles on it with that warranty and they just keep fixing it for his $100 deductible.
I have not had too many repairs actually but at 95,000 miles my heater was not working properly and I got a heater core, oil cooler and radiator installed at the dealership for my $100 deductible. That repair made the warranty worth it. I have gotten an oxygen sensor and thermostat fixed at over 100,000 miles. Same thing. $100. They will replace the engine and transmission as well and it would just be $100.
I think this conversation just circled back around. Ya. Hang on to that one.
With Verizon’s outage today, I’m reading reports of people who were using their phone as a key being locked out of their vehicles… Yet another reason I refuse to have that single-point-of-failure for my vehicle.
Solid point. I’m still team Key Fob
Ford PAAK uses Bluetooth for communication. What brand of vehicles are we talking here.
I guess I hadn’t thought of that issue because I assumed it was some sort of direct communication like Bluetooth when near the vehicle. That’s what I get for assuming.
We have Apps. for our Ford & Lincoln vehicles that let you lock/unlock and start the vehicle for preconditioning from a distance that requires a cellular network. We also have Phone As A Key that uses bluetooth communication to unlock. So a Verizon outage would not stop us from entering our vehicle. Note: I don't use PAAK any longer, just the key fob.
I’m team key fob. Heck my Wrangler is a key key.
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