This week's EV bargain that I'm not buying

Good point about the rental option if the boat from China gets held up. As suggested if you can pick up a cheap luxobarge for a few weeks rental money, it could be a good plan albeit with a slight gamble factor.

I presume you have tried and failed with the ID4 on the trade in option/farce with Tesla to end up selling privately ?

Wat would the fuel cost be for 2 months on an ol luxobarge? If I had the cash and the range was suitable, I'd be all over the Leaf. You won't lose much if anything at all when reselling. And old banger could give problems within days at bngernomic money.

It's not a XE, it's the standard 2011-12 spec which has pretty much everything including LED lights. But yes, good to ensure DC is included as there might be some off spec cars out there. The SOH of 66% will be a brutal range in winter. 50 km is not far off I reckon. Just that you know where you a going to. The early cars don't have % display so you are kind of going blind towards the end of the battery.

Make sure the heating works as that's a very common fault on the early cars. It will take a while for the hot air to happen as a largish volume of coolant gets heated up. Above also takes quite a lot of energy.

https://www.adverts.ie/car/hyundai/ioniq/2017-hyundai-ioniq/28939528

Categorised car means it was crashed before so beware. May be hard to insure and repaired badly. Will impact resale value.

What makes you suggest sellers status? Are you presuming second owner of the car has less information rather than smiley dealer.

Asking price and deal price often differ. Once I had Civic imported from Singapore. After googling, auction details showed car had 90.000kms less before It arrived to Ireland. After checking Car History it came to light vehicle was crashed in Ireland, so I replaced front condenser and other part to get AC going. Car was reliable along 7000 km round trip to Chroatia, Poland and back.

Placed it for sale and got a dealer from Dublin buying vehicle within a day. And what happened after? Car was advertised for €1000.00 more and no mention of repairs or original mileage.

Another vehicle was purchased from Dún Laoghaire dealer as a"Low mileage, no accident, deceased owners car". All fine but after bringing vehicle home it was discovered that vehicle had repairs to back bumper and a quarter panel. Dealer claimed car was never damaged and refused option of return.

Yes, advertising Ctitigo as "owner emigrated". Selling many cars rises suspicion for me as well. That`s why I would not buy from a dealer unless it is a new car I can not get from a private seller.

I suggest anyone advertising more than one car at a time outside of a legitimate dealership needs to be approached with extra caution. Aside from side-stepping their taxes, their operation as "private" sellers robs customers of their rights and should be reported, shut down and made to pay their way.

Not all "private sellers" are the same though. At one stage, I operated as one, but on a hobby level and never to profit from it. I bought, restored and sold a small number of grey imports to keep the cars on the road. Other "private sellers" always have a couple of motors for sale and avoid their legal obligations by operating as they do.

Your comment makes no sense at all. Buying from a dealer offers some protection and comeback. Buying from someone operating as a dealer, but pretending to be a private seller......let's just say one really needs to be extra careful. Owner emigrated is always a red flag for me, as it's an easy way to "explain" the different name on the VLC and get out of any awkward questions by pleading ignorance. I was looking at 316SE a few years ago. Seller claimed owner (his cousin) had returned to Canada a few weeks previous. Car was lovely, but I had a couple of questions the seller said he didn't know the answer to. Wouldn't call his cousin to get answers which set alarm bells off. I asked to see proof of a Canadian phone number and apparently his cousin didn't have a phone number yet 😂. Not a chance!

Dealers have a front door and while there are plenty of snake-oil car salesmen around, at least I have somewhere to go if there is an issue...as I have done in the past when I had problems with a 318 I bought from a garage in Dublin. They stood over it...probably made no money at the end of it tbh with having to fork out for 4 new boots (promised at time of purchase) and replacing most of the cooling system over several visits to a repair shop. Private seller would have long ditched his throw-away sim and left me to pay through the nose.

They also buy from the trade without warranty, generally not an option open to private buyers