Hello,
I took my car to the dealer and finally got the start of a resolution today. After about two weeks and authorizing additional diagnostic time at $300/hr I am now down $750 for them to tell me there is a problem with either fuses or SME locks. I do not have a formal quote because they have not finalized the part numbers of what would need to be replaced but the labor for the job will be a minimum of 13hrs ($3900) because they need to fully remove the high voltage battery and do reprogramming. I'm expecting the official quote to be over $6k which I think realistically totals the car. I cannot justify putting that kind of money into something with a <60mi range that is probably only worth about $11k if everything was good.
I understand that things break in cars but something this catastrophic just randomly happening at under 90k miles seems unreasonable. What should my next move be? I don't have a place to park the car and even if I did I have no interest in keeping a dead car. Once I get the quote my rep says I'd probably have about a week to either move forward with it or get it off their lot. What are your thoughts?
Thanks,
YKK
I took my car to the dealer and finally got the start of a resolution today. After about two weeks and authorizing additional diagnostic time at $300/hr I am now down $750 for them to tell me there is a problem with either fuses or SME locks. I do not have a formal quote because they have not finalized the part numbers of what would need to be replaced but the labor for the job will be a minimum of 13hrs ($3900) because they need to fully remove the high voltage battery and do reprogramming. I'm expecting the official quote to be over $6k which I think realistically totals the car. I cannot justify putting that kind of money into something with a <60mi range that is probably only worth about $11k if everything was good.
I understand that things break in cars but something this catastrophic just randomly happening at under 90k miles seems unreasonable. What should my next move be? I don't have a place to park the car and even if I did I have no interest in keeping a dead car. Once I get the quote my rep says I'd probably have about a week to either move forward with it or get it off their lot. What are your thoughts?
Thanks,
YKK
