golfcart
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Congrats on the 2012... looks like u got a great deal.
gregn said:Morning all,
Not sure if this is still relevant. I picked up a 2016 Leaf SV last week. My commute is 60 miles round trip from Montpelier VT to near Burlington. So far this car is wonderful. Plenty of charging options around. A real pleasure to drive too. Perfect for the Vermont back roads with the speed limit being 50 mph. I find the interstate ok as well.
Glad to be part of this.
Not sure how to post a picture. Using a phone at the moment.
inphoenix said:gregn said:Congratulations. Did you lease or purchase? Mind sharing your numbers?
Not sure how to post a picture. Using a phone at the moment.
apacheguy said:If paying cash is it reasonable to expect $8 K off the MSRP for a 2016 SV? I've seen this happen on the forums, but unsure if this is the exception rather than the rule.
Craigs said:I've been lurking here for about four months. Trying to pick up any tips I can on buying a used Leaf. I finally made the plunge on April 29th and bought a 2013 SV with QC package and navigation. I walked in to a used dealer called, Platt Auto of Gladstone, Oregon (a suburb of Portland- I highly recommend them). They specialize in used electric cars and had 64 Leafs in stock. I gave Greg Platt a list of nine parameters that I wanted for my car with number one being a SOH of 92% or greater. I thought this might be a little unreasonable, but gave it a shot anyway. Greg came up with a list of ten cars that fit most of my parameters and then handed the list to his salesman Ray so he could check the SOH of the ten cars with his Leaf Spy app. The first car had a SOH of 92% . Which I thought was really good for a 2013, but the 2nd car had a SOH of 98% so I said I want to test drive that one. I ended up buying it for $12,620.. It's Ocean Blue, has 18,000 miles and is like new! I know that price is high compared to other deals on this forum, but Oregon has a very robust charging infrastructure with about ten QC's within ten miles of my house. We also have the West Coast Electric Highway which actually consists of three north-south corridors from WA to CA with QC 's every 50 miles or less so all in all, used prices seem to be a little bit higher here. One of my parameters was that the car had to have a build date later than 5/31/16. The build date on my car is 12/13, which begs several questions: Weren't the 2014's being made by then? Isn't there only one production line in Smyrna? What's the difference between a '13 and '14?
Here's some other data from Leaf Spy: Ahr=63.34 Hx=97.29
When I looked at the CarFax, I could see why the numbers are so good. The car was originally sold in Bellingham, WA (70 miles N of Seattle). It sat on the dealers lot for only one month (Jan. '14). Then it sat at Platt Auto for 43 days in March and April. When I test drove it the SOC was only 52% so it looks like the battery was always treated right.
I'm disabled because I had a stroke when I was 42 so I don't have to worry about a commute, but one of my kids has a warehouse 62 miles away with a couple of free QC's close by so he'll be using the Leaf a lot.
My utility doesn't have TOU, but they do have a renewable energy plan which I've been on for awhile because the cost has come down to almost the same as the regular plan. I pay eleven cents per kwh with all my power coming from hydro and wind.
I'm extremely happy with my purchase!
DNAinaGoodWay said:apacheguy said:If paying cash is it reasonable to expect $8 K off the MSRP for a 2016 SV? I've seen this happen on the forums, but unsure if this is the exception rather than the rule.
2016 sales are slow, you could probably get $10k off, maybe more at the end of the month.
No spare tire or room for one. I live in a part of the world with bad cell coverage and few humans. What would be a 10 min inconvenience will turn into hours of inconvenience
jkline said:The horn sounds like an asthmatic sheep's bleat. Somebody should be flogged.
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