Hi Lawrence,
The Smart ED was my first choice for a factory EV until I found out I couldn't get the shop manual or a OBD-2 CanBus reader like the LeafSpy I have on the Leaf. Then the wheeler dealer told me it had half the battery warranty since it was half a car (not the standard 100K 8 year) OR I had to make monthly battery payments (about $99?) or buy the battery for $5K extra (on top of what I paid for a used Smart). In addition I had to TOW it to Wash DC once a year (I'm 250 miles away in Roanoke and both Mercedes dealers here said they have nothing to do with Smarts) to have them tweak stuff to keep the battery warranty in effect. Smart *really* needs a Smart dealership! Not the bastard child of Mercedes. Have they changed any of their policies or are they still trying to UNSELL their EV's? I currently own a Leaf and a Spark, like both but the Leaf has more service info (thanks to Cor etc, not wheeler dealers). The Spark handles better, more fun to drive/park - but I hope it never breaks, would be harder to fix, the polar opposite of my last conversion www.evalbum.com/4346 . Have a renewable energy day, Mark Mark E. Hanson 184 Vista Lane Fincastle, VA 24090 540-473-1248 phone & FAX, 540-816-0812 cell REEVA: community service RE & EV project club Website: www.REEVAdiy.org (See Project Gallery) UL Certified PV Installer My RE&EV Circuits: www.EVDL.org/lib/mh FREE Solar EV Charging! ; http://www.WeatherLink.com/user/MarkHansonREEVA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20171023/611eaedf/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
