I'm on several car forums, both ICE and EV etc. Obviously, forums tend to be people moaning about failures.
Human nature tends to be unhappy people shout the loudest. So reading any forum would put most people of any purchase car or otherwise, as it would seem that item is nothing but trouble.
Any german car forum will have post after post moaning about very expensive repairs just to keep their car on the road. For whatever reason, german car makers seem to design cars these days that are over complicated and a nightmare to work on. This means even minor issues can cost more than the cars worth.
Other none german car forums, tend to be more DIY approach to fixing issues. The same issues seem to afflict all makes, but are generally cheaper to fix than german cars.
Then you get to EV forums. Yes EV's do fail, but because they tend to be newer, warranties tend to cover the owners. So most posts are just moans about waiting for parts etc.
Not many moans are about the batteries though, same for the traction motors.
In fact most moans are about the infotainment screens. Glitches and bugs, that don't affect the actual driving of the car.
It makes a nice change to see people generally moaning because Netflix has failed to update, rather than crying because the timing chain/injectors/DPF needs doing and they haven't got £4k going spare!
Human nature tends to be unhappy people shout the loudest. So reading any forum would put most people of any purchase car or otherwise, as it would seem that item is nothing but trouble.
Any german car forum will have post after post moaning about very expensive repairs just to keep their car on the road. For whatever reason, german car makers seem to design cars these days that are over complicated and a nightmare to work on. This means even minor issues can cost more than the cars worth.
Other none german car forums, tend to be more DIY approach to fixing issues. The same issues seem to afflict all makes, but are generally cheaper to fix than german cars.
Then you get to EV forums. Yes EV's do fail, but because they tend to be newer, warranties tend to cover the owners. So most posts are just moans about waiting for parts etc.
Not many moans are about the batteries though, same for the traction motors.
In fact most moans are about the infotainment screens. Glitches and bugs, that don't affect the actual driving of the car.
It makes a nice change to see people generally moaning because Netflix has failed to update, rather than crying because the timing chain/injectors/DPF needs doing and they haven't got £4k going spare!
