Good question. What is “average” with battery packs given environmental factors.

Ok then. If my nearly 40 year old DeLorean needed a new battery every, let’s say 10 years, at a cost of $8,000 each time, that’s a cost of $32,000 dollars worth of batteries. Which, by the way is a very conservative replacement cost given that SAE put the BMW i3's replacement cost at $16,000 each. Which in turn must…

You may very well be correct. I usually want my cars to last at least 8-10 years. I’m also very skittish towards vehicles I cannot work on myself, thus the concern.

That’s the exact problem that I have with EVs. The batteries are too damn expensive, and there isn’t any aftermarket support to bring that cost down.

More importantly, what does it take to replace the battery pack? What are the costs for replacement cells to install myself? Because even if the capacity was at a miraculous 100%, you’re still gonna need to swap that cell out eventually.

Fix the cigarette ligher.

Germans love pushing two twins mattresses together and calling it a king. It’s odd.

Nope. As you asked, yes, the dealership paperwork counts as the lien.

Planet Earth. I’ve had a couple of situations like this happen to me. First time a Jeep that was underpriced by about $4K. Metro Hyundai called me back and demanded I return the vehicle because it was incorrectly priced too low. No option to find alternative financing, told me I had 24 hours to return or they’d file…

They don’t need you to return the title. They can simply apply for a replacement title with the lien holder information and invalidate the one accidentally mailed out.

Thank you. It’s always good to be armed with as much knowledge as possible. In the case here, I call up the dealership finance department and tell them to push the financing through. But if they didn’t, or were difficult for whatever reason, I’d just walk away and avoid all of the legal hassle. Tell the bank to rescind…

Absolutely the dealer has legal recourse. A lien is inconsequential to that. If the buyer signed a contract agreeing to purchase the car for any amount of money, the debt does not disappear.

Absolutely they would have recourse. You signed a contract agreeing to purchase the car for a specific price. If you cannot provide proof that you met that financial obligation that you agreed to, which also includes said vehicle being the collateral (since this isn’t a signature loan), the dealer has ever legal…

As I’ve said elsewhere, the selling dealer will have a contract you signed as a buyer agreeing to a set purchase price. If you cannot provide proof that you met that financial obligation in court with receipts, then the dealer has full legal ownership and wins a judgement against you.

Yes they can. Absolutely. There will then in turn be a burden of proof placed upon the dealer in a court of law to show validation in that claim. So for example if you signed a contract to purchase said vehicle and the financing you agreed to is not met, then that is absolutely a valid claim against the vehicle and…

Negative. As I stated elsewhere, the lien holder can file for a replacement title with a superseded serial number, and invalidate the current one you posses. Which then eradicates your legal claim to owning said property unencumbered.

Negative Ghost Rider.. All titles have independent serial numbers for the title themselves as they are issued. This is so that they can invalidate previous, lost titles in cases such as this, as well as other scenarios.

Dealers never do anything out of the kindness of their hearts. It’s a business plain and simple, and mostly a ruthless one at that. I have a few anecdotal stories about dealer financing hell that I, and others, have been through. But I’ll keep from boring everyone and cut right to the chase. One of two things happened…

Lived in Harris country for a while. I suspect that somehow within the next 5-10 years, they’re gonna tear up 290 again. Because 290 isn’t just the number of that highway, it’s the estimated completion time for all construction in years...

I don’t even have a house in Las Vegas, and cannot afford one. We planned on buying this September, but since Covid came along, people started dumping cash into real estate as a safe investment. Aside from the job loss eliminating any qualification for a mortgage, the home prices here skyrocketed as well. So even if…