Hybrid Lovers Read This and Lament

I hope you are you putting away some money to replace the battery pack a some point. Current cost of the Escape battery pack is over $7,000 ;)

mike

But then they wouldn't be able to pay the salaries of those socialist UAW members, would they?

Last time this came up, I asked what the list price was at the Ford dealer for the standard 12v battery.

Also the NiMh traction batteries

======= I never knew that the Prius ran on AA NiMh batteries.

Thank you for addressing the issue.

I change the oil every 1500 miles and grease the front end every 1000. And i change the air filter and plugs and rotor/cap every 10k or so. That's what i'm talking about. My present vehicle has 190K on it and is as happy as a republican at a bathhouse.

I'm not talking about getting rid of steel just getting rid of all the useless expensive gadgets. Forget the AC, PS, PB, electric seats and windows. Leave out the radio-CD player and garbage like the trunk light and the notorious windshield washer fluid guage.

Cars could be so much simpler than they are and they would cost much less and with fewer problems. But GM Ford, toyota and honda work together as a monopoly to give us this overpriced junk.

Ever hear of proofreading??

Because they are too saddled with pension and health care obligations thanks to Organized Labor.

Don't forget the most useless gadgets of all: alarm systems...

Just waiting for you to address it, h*mo.

Just maintaining your low standards, s**en slurper.

laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE, was motivated to say this in rec.autos.driving on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:43:52 GMT:

How's that emergency brake doing, psycho??

laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE, was motivated to say this in rec.autos.driving on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:49:23 GMT:

and emergency brakes and tires with thread....

New plugs, rotor, and cap every 10k? That's not very smart.

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')

It doesnt run on AA size but the development of better, lighter, and higher capacity modules for the car helps to make all sizes and shapes of cells better(the original 1997-2000 model in japan only did use "D" size cells in the traction battery)

And to think, the point where conventional cars could be entirely recycled had just been reached.

(I was watching ask-this-old-house a couple weeks ago and they had a landscaping railroad tie type thing that was made out out of the 'fluff', the last 6% or so of material from automobilies that nobody had a use for)

Especially when using a flashlight to see the gauges and all the other things that are let go.

For more money you can now get a European car giving more MPG and more trouble free miles.

Too soon.

Very frequent.

Too frequent for the plugs.

Your current vehicle must be very old to require such frequent oil and plug changes. If it isn't old you're wasting the environment.