Thx for replies, drive it weekly, (Florida), always use 93 octane, connector looks like new, clean and tight.
Posts by Flybuddy
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Had knock sensor replaced about 3 months ago at dealer (under warranty). My 5 year warranty expired last month and I popped the knock sensor code again yesterday. Ordered a new sensor from Amazon and have already removed the recently replaced one pending arrival of the new one tomorrow.
I'm a bit worried that there's another underlying problem. (the connector seems fine)
Why are there so many knocks sensor problems on Slings?? Don't seem to have that issue on other GM 2.4 vehicles?
Are Slings with a Bob tune more susceptible due to further advance?
For those that have had multiple knock sensor failures, what was the final resolution?
thx for any insight
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My original Polaris Warrenty is about up. I have the option to purchase Polaris for another 3yrs $1000, EFG for 2yrs and its the same price as Polaris, then Riders Advantage for 5yrs, $1400
Has anybody had or have Riders Advantage or EFG? Was told towing covered to nearest dealer just like Polaris. I was thinking for $400 more I can get 5yrs.
This thread might be helpful:
Slingshot Polaris Authorized Extended Protection Plans - 25% OFF
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Looks like they are putting in charging stations at my local HEB.
All you need is a "Charge" card
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Toilet paper shortage?? No Shit!!
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https://electrek.co/2020/03/11…electric-sports-car-ends/
Another company backs away from the EV...
This time its BMW.
That's because it was a ridiculous offering...It was an absolutely gorgeous sports car. The battery was good for 18 miles only and the engine was a 1.5 liter 3 cylinder. The out the door price was around $175,000. Try to figure out a demographic for that. The snobby car companies seem to believe that there's an endless supply of wealthy idiots out there.
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The manufacturers only see electrics as a lucrative market whereas a simpler car can be built and based on Tesla they think they can command higher prices. Reality is many people own electrics for various reasons that don't necessarily fit the car companies reasoning.
Status - Owning a Tesla is up there with the snobby cars (lose this buying a Chevy, Ford, etc)
Novelty - different and unusual (lose some of this buying a Chevy, Ford etc.)
Environmental - Some value here but not as green as most people think--the more affluent liberal that thinks this also subscribes to reason one and two. Also won't want to help support what they see as the large polluting car companies.
Efficiency and Value - there can be gains here BUT the increasing MSRPs pretty much push these customers away.
The one thing that Tesla has proven which most EV gurus have been saying all along is that there is a HUGE market out there for an INEXPENSIVE electric that would be more accessible for the average car customer. Tesla sold over 300,000 Model 3s in 2019 accounting for 2/3rds of electric sales. A sub 20K electric with reasonable range would probably sell over a million cars annually.
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The old mantra when ordering breakfast was that it's hard mess up pancakes so you were safe ordering them....now I'm not so sure
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Shoes used to have this....it was called a "heal"
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I think you're OK as long as you don't go swimming
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Display MoreAs an example, we are traveling from Oregon to Montana, approximately 1000 miles, a trip which takes us approximately 16 hours driving time currently, a day and a half when figuring in restaurant, motel and pee stops. Now, let's use the numbers from the Chevy Bolt, basically 200 mile range, 2 hour recharging time, and .5 hours looking for the charging station, boiling down to roughly 6.5 hours per 200 miles conservatively. Take that 1000 miles and divide it by 200 mile range and that equals 5 legs. Now multiply those five legs by 6.5 hours and we get 32.5 hours driving time. When again adding in motel, restaurant, and pee stops we essentially went from a day and a half trip to now taking over three days. That simply is not practical.
Another example, with our Jetta it takes approximately a gallon of fuel to drive me the 60 miles per day to and from work. Let's just round that to $3.00 per day. Figuring a given average cost of $0.08 per mile for the Bolt, this calculates out to approximately $4.80 per day.
Shall we consider the purchase price of a new electric vehicle to being approximately double of a gasoline equivalent, or how about a towing vehicle? Naw, let's save that for a future discussion.
So, unless one plans on only using an electric car for short trips zipping about town, it just does not make any economical sense, at least for us?
Bill
It's logical to buy the right equipment for the mission. As you've laid out, the Bolt is the wrong vehicle for consistent trips from Oregon to Montana. Lets say you have heavy cargo normally for that trip and I now compare the Jetta to a cargo van which makes it in one trip and the Jetta needs two. Electrics fit local missions better and are more logical in multi car households. Here's some stats below that show what real missions are for most drivers. Again this is NOT a political issue, nor is it logical to point out the "lack" of infrastructure in one thread and then point out the empty charging stations in another. I had owned a 2nd gen Volt for 4 years and almost never charged it anywhere but home. It got 65 miles on electric which covered better than 98% of my driving and would switch over to gas and get 43 mpg. No problem going from Oregon to Montana with a Volt. Just a matter of picking the right vehicles for your needs.
"Using data obtained from the Department of Transport’s 2009 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), Garrett Fitzgerald and Rob van Haaren analyzed the travel data of survey participants, concluding that 95 percent of the 748,918 recorded single-trip journeys by car were under 30 miles.
More astonishingly, around 98 percent of all single-trip journeys were under 50 miles in length, with trips over 70 miles in length accounting for just one percent of all single-trip journeys.
The average single-trip distance? Just 5.95 miles. And while rural respondents naturally traveled further on average than their urban counterparts, 95 percent of all rural-based trips were still under 50 miles."
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I'll make a "blanket" statement...it will work as you've laid out, minimal draw. How will the Queen of Corona use it though? Inside jacket?
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What do you expect from the Eastwood catalog?...Clint is almost 90
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Rear hump plastic accents for sale
So where can I get plastic accents for my hump?
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Display MoreI went on 1 group ride - bailed half way thru.
I feel for the ride leaders as they are trying to keep everyone happy and with groups that large it is impossible.
When we organize rides at our events we always have 2 groups for the same ride that leave about 10 minutes apart.
Group #1 is the irresponsible - fast pace group
Group #2 is the responsible group - the under the speed limit crowd
This has worked very well for us in the past / average group is 6-10 slings
Just passin that on
I think that most of us fall into group 1.5...I don't want to be irresponsible but I sure as shit don't want to go under the speed limit either. There's a lot of 10mph speed limits on the Tail.
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They already have....the funny thing is that some of the states listed also give fairly decent cash back incentives toward purchasing an EV.
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I had a Gem car for years and I modded the crap out of it (kind of like being a Sling owner
). Did a larger motor, changed out the ring and pinion to 6 to1, wide, low profile tires, swapped 6 12V batts to 9 8Vs, reprogrammed the controller via a GE forklift program, larger cables, heat sinks and bilge blowers to contain heat at high speed. It was licensed and I would use it to drive kids to school and for local errands. Would go about 60 for top speed but to extend range would drop to 45. Like the Slings, it was fun with reasonable usefulness. -
Total electrical usage in U.S. was 3.9 trillion KWH in 2019, it has been 3.8 or 3.9 trillion every year since 2005 (BEFORE) the proliferation of electric cars. Conversely the U.S. generates 4.12 trillion KWH annually (there is more capacity than this). Quotes are below. The charging infrastructure is rapidly growing and can be handled. The Tesla V3 supercharger can add 100 miles range in 7 minutes. I spoke with a guy last week who drove his model 3 down from Boston to Fort Myers and he said he was getting nearly 200 miles range in 30 minutes. This seems to improve each year.
Most electric owners do NOT do long trips (300+ miles per day) in their electrics currently and own a 2nd car.
For some reason electric cars seem to be as a political issue. Environmental friendliness is more marketing than reality. The gain for the U.S. is a reduction of gasoline/oil usage. Yes, the energy is gotten from somewhere else BUT it can be natural gas, coal and renewables. We are just becoming energy independent and it's easy to forget how lousy it was when OPEC screwed us over and bad characters like Venezuela and Russia had huge oil revenues. Full electric on road is NOT a good thing but 10% is and can be handled.
"In 2019, about 4,118 billion kilowatthours (kWh) (or about 4.12 trillion kWh) of electricity were generated at utility-scale electricity generation facilities in the United States.1 About 63% of this electricity generation was from fossil fuels—coal, natural gas, petroleum, and other gases. About 20% was from nuclear energy, and about 18% was from renewable energy sources."
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Was perusing youtube today and came across this video that gives reasonable explanations for their update requirements.
