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Hybrid Lovers Read This and Lament
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, NJ Vike quoted from Car & Driver:
> Although the warranties are for eight years or 100,000 miles, battery > replacement will cost $5300 for the Toyota and Lexus hybrids, and the > Ford Escape replacements run a whopping $7200. Moreover, the industry > types aren't talking about total battery life. Will they actually last > 100,000 miles? No. My officemate has an '03 Honda Civic hybrid. It started giving problems on his way from Montreal to Toronto. The Integrated Motor Assist system went offline, which also meant the SLI battery (Starting, Lighting, Ignition -- the conventional 12v item under the hood) was not being charged. When he limped into the parking lot, his SLI battery read 9.9v. Towed to the dealer, who after three days gave the diagnostic report: The traction battery's dead. Good thing the battery warranty is 6 years, otherwise it'd be a C$8,000+ event. Dealer claims this is the first-ever failure of a traction battery in a Honda hybrid of any year or model, anywhere in the world (Sure, right...) and that a new traction battery has to be brought in from Japan, which will take AT LEAST three weeks. Of course, there are multiple different issues going on here. There's the car problem itself, then there's the dealer's fairy tales. I can think of half a dozen courier companies that'll happily get a package from Japan to North America in a matter of a couple of days, so that shoots the "three weeks to come from Japan" theory all to hell. And if this were indeed the very first-ever instance of this heretofore unheard-of failure in one of Honda's high-profile, high-PR-value enviro models, one would think the company would be falling all over itself to make the repair as quickly as possible to keep the customer as quiet as possible about it. > How will this affect resale value? Pah. What resale value? This kind of traction battery failure does NOT bode well for the durability of these cars. Sure, it's covered under his battery warranty. The new replacement battery does not reset the battery warranty clock. What about in 5 years? They are disposable cars. 10 years *tops*. More like "end of warranty plus time to next failure". > This brings up an undiscussed issue: At some point, all these hybrid > batteries will die and have to be disposed of somewhere, somehow. These > are hardly biodegradable items like spoiled vegetables. They are in fact > self-contained toxic waste dumps. How and where millions of these > poisonous boxes will be deposited in the new hybrid nirvana has yet to > be considered, much less resolved. NiMH batteries are indeed hair-raisingly toxic and expensive to reclaim/recycle. Once no longer in the dealer chain, they will simply get tossed -- along with the rest of the car. DS |
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Hybrid Lovers Read This and Lament
The whole idea of hybrids is stupid. Just make cars smaller and leave
out all the useless crap. Detroit could easily build a 2500 pound family car that gives 40 mpg and costs $8,000 brand new and gives 250,000 trouble-free miles on nothing but routine maintenance. |
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Hybrid Lovers Read This and Lament
Laura Bush murdered her boy friend, > was motivated
to say this in rec.autos.driving on 21 Nov 2005 09:35:24 -0800: > Detroit could easily build a 2500 pound > family car that gives 40 mpg and costs $8,000 brand new and gives > 250,000 trouble-free miles on nothing but routine maintenance. > > <intro to business lesson> Then why don't they? </intro to business lesson> |
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Hybrid Lovers Read This and Lament
necromancer wrote: > Laura Bush murdered her boy friend, > was motivated > to say this in rec.autos.driving on 21 Nov 2005 09:35:24 -0800: > > Detroit could easily build a 2500 pound > > family car that gives 40 mpg and costs $8,000 brand new and gives > > 250,000 trouble-free miles on nothing but routine maintenance. > > > > > > <intro to business lesson> > > Then why don't they? Cause they make more selling the $50,000 cars with all sorts of useless gadgets. You think they sell AC and CD players and electric seats at cost?? |
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Hybrid Lovers Read This and Lament
Laura Bush murdered her boy friend wrote: > necromancer wrote: > > Laura Bush murdered her boy friend, > was motivated > > to say this in rec.autos.driving on 21 Nov 2005 09:35:24 -0800: > > > Detroit could easily build a 2500 pound > > > family car that gives 40 mpg and costs $8,000 brand new and gives > > > 250,000 trouble-free miles on nothing but routine maintenance. > > > > > > > > > > <intro to business lesson> > > > > Then why don't they? > > Cause they make more selling the $50,000 cars with all sorts of > useless gadgets. You think they sell AC and CD players and electric > seats at cost?? Have a good weekend at the bath house, pud licker? |
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Hybrid Lovers Read This and Lament
On 21 Nov 2005 12:58:30 -0800, "Laura Bush murdered her boy friend"
> wrote: > >necromancer wrote: >> Laura Bush murdered her boy friend, > was motivated >> to say this in rec.autos.driving on 21 Nov 2005 09:35:24 -0800: >> > Detroit could easily build a 2500 pound >> > family car that gives 40 mpg and costs $8,000 brand new and gives >> > 250,000 trouble-free miles on nothing but routine maintenance. >> > >> > >> >> <intro to business lesson> >> >> Then why don't they? Because they are too saddled with pension and health care obligations thanks to Organized Labor. >Cause they make more selling the $50,000 cars with all sorts of >useless gadgets. You think they sell AC and CD players and electric >seats at cost?? Don't forget the most useless gadgets of all: alarm systems... |
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Hybrid Lovers Read This and Lament
>>Because they are too saddled with pension and health care obligations
thanks to Organized Labor. << The nerve of those workers, wanting something so frivolous for all those years of sweat. |
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Hybrid Lovers Read This and Lament
What would you expect form a guy that says Mrs. Bush murder someone? LOL
mike "necromancer" > wrote in message th.net... > Laura Bush murdered her boy friend, > was motivated > to say this in rec.autos.driving on 21 Nov 2005 09:35:24 -0800: >> Detroit could easily build a 2500 pound >> family car that gives 40 mpg and costs $8,000 brand new and gives >> 250,000 trouble-free miles on nothing but routine maintenance. >> >> > > <intro to business lesson> > > Then why don't they? > > </intro to business lesson> > |
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Hybrid Lovers Read This and Lament
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:09:54 -0500, "Mike Hunter"
> was understood to have stated the following: >What would you expect form a guy that says Mrs. Bush murder someone? LOL Not much... Which is exactly what we get. -- "Laura Bush Murdered Her Boyfriend" brags of it's homosexuallity: the guys at the bath-house stopped laughing at my 3 inch weenie. : http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...1dd649fb?hl=en Joshua Calvert > demonstrates his lack of understanding of the terms "sarcasm", "irony", and "hypocrisy": Poor rightard, forced to whine about an 40 year old event. Message-ID: > |
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