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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
To replace that coolant tube, there's a ton of disassembly required including removing the skateboard.. The Tesla beancounters figured out how much that cost was. The guy that fixed it with a hardware store part (which may or may not be 100% compatible) didn't disassemble so cheaper repair. He did void the remaining warranty.
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But...
- How easy is it to do damage to a fairly new engine or transmission to the point that it requires the whole engine and/or transmission to be rebuilt or replaced? Would running over a piece of tire tread or similar and immediately pulling over and turning off the vehicle do that much damaged?
- Would it cost $16,000 to do that, to take apart a new engine or transmission and put it back together to fix one broken piece of plastic inside it caused from running over a piece of tire?
The point is that if it costs $16,000 to fix a battery that has perfectly good cells and perfectly good electronics and only needs a plastic fitting fixed, how much will it cost to fix the battery once the whole battery needs replacing?
It seems to me that our only hope is that the battery in our EV's lasts as long as the rest of the car and as long as an ICEV would last. Otherwise replacing or repairing it would be prohibitively expensive.
This also shows why insurance on EV's is so high. If manufacturers put a little plastic tube on the front of the car that costs $16,000 if it gets cracked your car is an expensive repair bill waiting to happen.