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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
The problem is that when some cells start to go the others are close to dying themselves.
This creates what hybrid owners call "whack-a-mole". It's like the game of the same name. You figure out what modules have the bad cells, change them, then another module pops up with a bad cell, you change it, then another, you change it, then another.
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Indeed. I can compare it to what a shade-tree mechanic would do in order to troubleshoot a non-hybrid econobox, all while trying some makeshift fixes which would be supposed to outlast whichever setup was factory-fitted
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It's best to just replace the whole thing with a brand new, high quality battery, unless you're just trying to get it to run so you can sell it.
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Of course doing the most orthodox fix is the best way to go, but you know, once a car had lost so much of its resale value that fixing it properly becomes more expensive than its resale value, to the point it would be worth more for the scrap material, folks would resort for the cheapest way to make it run at least, even if the next failure is already predictable...