My Mrs had an Audi diesel that used adblue and although, due to the low mileage, I only had to fill it twice in the 3 years we had it, I did wonder whether I could just piss in the tank?
Tricky height on the Vito, had to use a funnel. Topped up my Transporter recently… £20 for 5 litres wtf??
As part of the deal when he bought it new came free 'at Tesla station' charging for 'life'. So he's had 7 years of fuel cost-free driving back and forth to Switzerland. I guess you don't get 'rich' without being money savvy eh.. Don't know about service intervals, but would expect similar to ICE cars.
My mates wife had one. He was moaning about ridiculous tyre consumption. I guess all that weight and shit tons of torque will indeed chew through tyres. He wasn’t convinced with all the ‘free’ energy either. Suffice to say his Mrs is back in an ICE car now. An A class Merc I think. I’m sure with meticulous planning you can get an EV to work. They wouldn’t work for me, that’s for sure. My life routine is all over the shop.
deffo. and get the DPF gutted too. if keeping the addblue. put a conditioner in the addblue tank every fill up.
Years ago I put adblue directly into the fuel tank, not advisable, I got about 200 yards before the car abruptly stopped. The insurance company wouldn’t pay for the repairs as it was classed as mis fuelling, I argued that adblue is not a fuel and they paid up…
Reckon I could 'reach' up to the Audi (SUV) filler. Was a couple of years ago but, the cheapest I found was 5L on Amazon for £10.
I buy it at work in 1000 litres Ibc's, tractors and combines get through quite a bit in day, 38ppl if empty IBC is returned, it's criminal what is charged by garages etc.
Not paid much attention to EV cars but was looking through Autotrader at all the brands, some of them look OK but I couldn’t believe a Hyundai Ioniq 5 N Line does 0 - 60 in 3.4 seconds 740 Nm Torque - WTF !!
