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EV Maintenance #1

So, I just took my car in for my first EV maintenance. We're at the 1 year mark and almost 12k km.When we bought the car we got more or less scammed into a package of 10 "battery checks". And, it seems like this is the bulk of the maintenance #1. So, our final cost was $0.

That being said, my dealership tried to talk me into a brake maintenance for $270CAD and an air filter changed for $70CAD.

The air filter change I can do myself for a fraction of the price. And so I will.

The brake service... now here is the fun bit. It includes working the pads and rotors which, because I have an EV and only about 12k KMs on it, are in perfect condition. And the tech says that the caliper pins are bone dry. Honestly, I doubt that they even inspected the pins. But, regardless... they basically tried to charge me $260 before tax to lube up some pins which would take less than 15 minutes.

In all honesty... I probably would have paid for both services if they had charged reasonably for the portion of the brake maintenance I actually needed. The labour would be on the same scale as the air filter and the parts would be even less. I was expecting it to cost somewhere in the ballpark of a synthetic oil change. And double the cost of the air filter would have been in that ballpark.

Anyway... experience so far with the full electric has been AWESOME. I liked the PHEV, but I think that the best use case for a PHEV is actually really hard to achieve. And I'm not talking about people who never charge them. Or at least, not only that. We ALWAYS charged ours. But I would say that we were still not the ideal use case. From my perspective, if you have 2 drive trains, you want to be using both regularly and our weekly drives just never needed the gas except in the winter when it used it for heating. 

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