Hybrids

[Rick 381]

It's a good looking car in good shape, you've got the battery pack fixed, why sell it?

 

[Steverino]

It's a good looking car in good shape, you've got the battery pack fixed, why sell it?

Too soon to know if the battery issue is "fixed" yet. In reality, one or more of the 32 cells could go at any time, and I'm back to where I started.

It's my daughter's car, and she's since bought another, so I'm off the hook as far as trying to flip it in a hurry, so I'm just going to keep an eye on it. I can't drive it far (I've only been driving around the neighborhood) since the tags are now expired.

Truth is, now that I know how to fix it if this issue resurfaces, I now know I can do a cell swap in less than an hour, and it's back up and running again. I have 3 spare cells. 36mpg isn't bad, and I could give the Focus a break. We'll see.

 

[2112]

So far, so good. Cleaned it up today.

Damned shame, it's a really nice car, loaded, everything you can think of and everything works. I'm getting 36mpg.
I checked KBB and NADA, local CL ads are all shockingly low. Of course, on top of it being a hybrid, it's now ten years old with 161,000 miles.

Looks good.