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

It’s an easy sale if the price is right. I’m guessing it’s been picked up by a trader and it’ll be €4K and full of filler in a few weeks.

Yes if priced correctly, as they are great school run/ second cars. Price it wrong and they’ll sit on donedeal for months, same as any car really.

2017 (171) Tesla Model X

75D 4WD (525bhp)

€47,990

Not sure if this MX has been posted, €47k, which is €18k cheaper than the next cheapest one. It’s a 75D, which for an Irish car in 2017 was €120-140k ish.

there’s now 17 model X listings on carzone and some of them are ads I’ve had saved forever.

does literally no-one want to take the risk on a 2nd hand X?

https://www.carzone.ie/used-cars/tesla/model-x/used-2017-171-tesla-model-x-75d-suv-e-dublin-fpa-202301183361925

Would be a fantastic buy if there was some way of buying a warranty for it. This is quite doable in the UK but all of the aftermarket warranty providers here will only deal with the trade. Even then they are pretty rubbish from what I’ve heard. Pretty difficult to get them to pay out on a claim.

I just think people would prefer to buy a new MY or M3 plus change in their pocket than an out or close to out of warranty X or S. I’m not saying the latter are not better cars but the downsides are twofold; cost of fixing something out of warranty is huge and they are very hard to sell. Why would you buy something that traps you (nice place to be trapped!) from being able to sell quick and move on when you want to without taking a big haircut. I have no doubt there are many S and X owners that want to buy a new Tesla but simply can’t shift their cars (or haven’t accepted the reality the cost to move will be enormous). Every time Elon drops the prices he kills the X and S owners hopes a little more.

I was in the market for a run around. But couldn’t find any with a decent range. Ended up with a 2009 2.2 diesel accord

the ID4 does 30k a year and out second car about 7k. Many of which are 200+ do needs a decent range.

still no EVs with range for a good price.

Well as someone who was selling an extremely short range ev for 7.5k I’ll not pay much attention to that. Especially your morals comment with only 7,000km a year it’s more environmentally friendly than getting a new EV

a 2K car with full service history and a 12 month NCT. Makes perfect financial sense to me. EVs aren’t in that ballpark yet.

As with most aspects of private motoring in Ireland, the last sentence highlights the rip off nature of Irish car insurance premiums over the years as that big Honda diesel has less than 140bhp which wouldn't even be considered safe its so underpowered in the new EV era. Will be interesting to see how the insurance companies will adapt to this new era, can't see them walking away from the current lucrative model of screwing certain classes of drivers off the road

Isn't there a guy on one of the Tesla forums with a one year old model x. On like it's 4th or 5th drive motor?

Ridiculous for such an expensive purchase.

Maybe that's why they don't sell?

Insurance companies have always loaded premiums for so called big powerful 2 ltr diesels. Having said that they load premiums for pretty much any excuse really.

I am logging in purely to highlight how disgraceful I feel that comment is.

I am a PHEV owner because the EV market has been a sellers market for a significant period of time with demand bias pricing.

I would be a ICE driver if I wasn't fortunate enough to be in a position to finance what would be an severely overpriced vehicle, if I didn't have connections to the UK pre-brexit.

You must take better care when introducing such significant language as this into what is just a car forum. Posts like that diminish the very real challenges people face in adopting something they may feel is morally correct. There is weight associated your introducing this concept that I don't feel you have even attempted to consider when you posted that, and to say I'm disappointed with this type of discourse is a severe understatement.

A moral compass is not a device which can be used to overcome a sellers market.

Read it again, it's a ChatGPT response @unkel - someone's yanking your chain.

What is it thats so bad about the Model X that’s making it unsellable? Like what makes it so much worse than an out of warranty Model S? Pricepoint? Reliability?