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How reliable would you reckon this thing is.....

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  • #2
    junkyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭junkyard


    It should be fine if its got Duracell batteries :) Seriously though its a RENAULT what do you think!:D


  • #3
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Well ..if the conversion was done in 1980 and those are the original batteries, reliability won't be an issue ...


    you won't be going anywhere :D


  • #4
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Is it using 8 normal car batteries?


  • #5
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    naah, something slightly bigger according to the pictures ...so big in fact that I would suspect that you could not put four people into it without going over the max weight.

    there is a normal battery in it as well ...for lights and indicators, etc I reckon


  • #6
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Here's a real electric car: http://twike.com/

    But at ~17 k + another 3 - 4 k for batteries I don't think I'll be getting one anytime soon.


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  • #7
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    The sticker on it for new england auto electrical. Was there not a fiat or something similar with the same bodge job done on here a while ago. It's got to weigh a ton with all those batterys.

    Gotta love the way they just gouge a big hole in the dash and drop in 2 meters. They could have at least taken a bot of care and made the holes the same size as the thing they were putting into it and I'm sure something better could have been done than having the cable surfaced.Boot space is a tad limited.


  • #8
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I remember a Clio with this done too. when the Clio came out (or maybe it was a 106....)


  • #9
    Do-more
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


    Ye couldn't even use it as a Golf caddy! No room for the clubs in the boot...:D

    invest4deepvalue.com



  • #10
    Max_Damage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    Stekelly wrote:
    Was there not a fiat or something similar with the same bodge job done on here a while ago.

    Indeed there was, it was an electric Fiat Ritmo!


  • #11
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Do-more wrote:
    Ye couldn't even use it as a Golf caddy! No room for the clubs in the boot...:D

    What about in the front?


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  • #12
    Do-more
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


    colm_mcm wrote:
    What about in the front?

    You obviously didn't get as far as the photo of under the bonnet! It's full of batteries too!!!:D

    invest4deepvalue.com



  • #13
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    no way! (definately not buying it now)

    I reckon if they'd used a Renault Trafic, they'd have had room for luggage where the engine would be. and they could've fitted way more batteries in the back! :rolleyes:


  • #14
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    For a company that seems (from the company name) to specialise in making electric cars, or at least did in the 80's, they really do hatchett jobs on the cars.


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