Well... the dealer had zero clue the battery had an issue. They would have only know if they had actually taken the car out for a long drive - which they didn't. My guess is that they aren't dumb: The car was probably worth about what they paid - which is what they can probably get for it via an auction house. The battery was initially around $4,000. By the time I finally got around to getting serious about it, for whatever reason the costs had gone up since the last time I had looked. Could be the global supply issues. Keep in mind this was for a REBUILT battery. A NEW battery was going to be over $7,000, which is significant.
Anyway... the new car has been great. We took it on a all-day drive out in the sticks and the map had us take a shortcut which turned out to be a barely paved, 1-lane, heavily rutted road. The Volt would have never made it. The new car did a great job.
11th May 2022, 18:02
Well... the dealer had zero clue the battery had an issue. They would have only know if they had actually taken the car out for a long drive - which they didn't. My guess is that they aren't dumb: The car was probably worth about what they paid - which is what they can probably get for it via an auction house. The battery was initially around $4,000. By the time I finally got around to getting serious about it, for whatever reason the costs had gone up since the last time I had looked. Could be the global supply issues. Keep in mind this was for a REBUILT battery. A NEW battery was going to be over $7,000, which is significant.
Anyway... the new car has been great. We took it on a all-day drive out in the sticks and the map had us take a shortcut which turned out to be a barely paved, 1-lane, heavily rutted road. The Volt would have never made it. The new car did a great job.