This week's EV bargain that I'm not buying

lads can we get back to the topic of EV bargains please

Nope, because the metric for bargain is quite lost in this thread now. Too many crashed cars posted and it's now apparently down to your auto repairs skillset and/ or 'home' garage setup on whether a car for purchase is a bargain or not. Oh and also how hungry the rodents were.

There should be a separate thread for crashed EVs for those who want to seek one and have the skills. Even a metric for crashed EV bargains is a lottery so the term 'bargain' should not appear in the title thread.

What a bullsh1t post, trading forum/ thread/ outside topic thread to state only motoring enthusiasts to your perceived level can post here, prohibiting others even observing as an individual seeking guidance on what is a bargain or not for next car pick up.

So you have clearly written that the 'EV bargains' thread (note the term is not 'forum') should be for 'talking about…..fixing cars'! If the issue with this has to be explained to you then the problem is not every 4 weeks, 'cos you pop up here more often. Ironically, most of your last posts also did not include a bargain!

Go elsewhere on the FORUM (no need to go all the way outside) and create a THREAD to talk about fixing up motors. Wont be responding to you again as I don't want to derail the thread.

Just create a new thread end of.

Listermint I'm with you for open debate and learning. I would welcome that over in the thread I created.

I'm a bit of a lurker on this forum, and I check this thread most times it pops up. I've been interested in EVs for quite some time and hope to never buy an ICE car again. We recently got our first one and I'm looking forward to getting our second. I used to do some minor tinkering in terms of basic servicing etc, but health issues meant it became too much of a chore so I pay someone to do that stuff now. What I'm interested in seeing in this thread is a good value EV that either I can afford or that I can recommend to friends/family who might be moving on from ICE (there are stlll a LOT of people out there who need persuading). Neither I nor they will be interested in any damaged repairables, unless it's something really basic like a cracked bumper on a car that's still drivable and road legal, or a minor dent in a wing. Something that needs a new interior, a replacement wiring loom, a complete respray or a whole new front end would be of near zero interest. That's not a bargain, it's a project. There's nothing wrong with those - I might find some of them interesting too, but IMO they just don't belong in this thread.

perhaps a simple rule that the car has to be roadworthy to be posted would get past what feels like months of this debate.

taxis, imports, auctions, & monster-milers are bargains to someone, maybe not everyone, but consensus is not the point of the thread.

Yeah thanks. I think that's getting a bit too short to be useful. I saw online someone swapping the battery in their early i3. While I like the idea of keeping older cars going some of these 2nd gen even with out of warranty batteries are getting so much cheaper with CCS2 to be so much more useful and worth a gamble on the battery.

Will you get an AMI?

I love the concept but think it's a hard sell in Ireland Vs the used alternatives.