Organ transplant for cars
Feb. 23rd, 2022 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nosrednaydujWe got new set of batteries for the leaf. I'm calling it a heart transplant. It was kind of like waiting for one – we had to wait for somebody to crash their car in such a way that the batteries were okay but the rest of the car was totaled. It cost about $4500, which seems like a lot, except if you compare to getting a new car, it's not so bad. The batteries are back to being about what they were when we bought the car at 30,000 miles – it currently has 95,000 miles on it, and the batteries were pretty lame. So, if we get another 70,000 miles on this pack in the same seven or so years, it will be time to buy a new car, because by then it will have had a lot of New England winters under its belt, and it is no longer the preferred car, so it doesn't get the garage space.
Meanwhile, that Tesla is acting up. We got the upgrade from 3G, and since then it has not been accurately doing GPS. So we told them we wanted them to fix it, and they gave us an estimate of $400, but I think it should be a warranty repair, because it worked great before they messed with it. Also, two or three times now the center console has been black when we went to start the car, and we've had to reboot it. Fortunately this is fairly easy; you just hold down two of the buttons on the steering wheel together for 30 seconds and it restarts. So far this has worked. I'm afraid that if we try to get them to fix that at the same time that they fix the GPS that they will for sure not want to do it for free. Anyway, we're taking it in to its appointment next week, even though we have not approved the estimate (there's some workflow with the app that you're supposed to do). We will see what happens when we are speaking to humans. Allegedly we are texting humans but they are not acting much like humans.
So now we have to periodically exercise the Prius, because it is now the least preferred car (though realistically its carbon footprint is not that different from the electric cars because we no longer cover all our usage with solar, so we are getting a bunch from the grid, which is not completely clean.)
Meanwhile, that Tesla is acting up. We got the upgrade from 3G, and since then it has not been accurately doing GPS. So we told them we wanted them to fix it, and they gave us an estimate of $400, but I think it should be a warranty repair, because it worked great before they messed with it. Also, two or three times now the center console has been black when we went to start the car, and we've had to reboot it. Fortunately this is fairly easy; you just hold down two of the buttons on the steering wheel together for 30 seconds and it restarts. So far this has worked. I'm afraid that if we try to get them to fix that at the same time that they fix the GPS that they will for sure not want to do it for free. Anyway, we're taking it in to its appointment next week, even though we have not approved the estimate (there's some workflow with the app that you're supposed to do). We will see what happens when we are speaking to humans. Allegedly we are texting humans but they are not acting much like humans.
So now we have to periodically exercise the Prius, because it is now the least preferred car (though realistically its carbon footprint is not that different from the electric cars because we no longer cover all our usage with solar, so we are getting a bunch from the grid, which is not completely clean.)
