Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: john m on July 21, 2018, 11:14:37 am
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Consider the 9 year rule and your average milage How do you go about replacing your motor .New ,Import ,Used .4 ,5 6 ,year old Its going to depend on your average milage .Im part time less than 30 hours a week mostly city driving so would probably go 5 or 6 year old motor any fuel provided the price is right .Used Petrol cars are cheaper than Diesels to buy but more expensive to run cheaper to maintain so not to much of a difference in costs over 4 years .hybrids look good but a bit pricey for the amateur driver =under 50hours a week So im looking cheap probably petrol 6 year old under 6000,
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Hi John m you would pick up a nice Toyota Corolla.cheap as chips to run and service.........
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Consider the 9 year rule and your average milage How do you go about replacing your motor .New ,Import ,Used .4 ,5 6 ,year old Its going to depend on your average milage .Im part time less than 30 hours a week mostly city driving so would probably go 5 or 6 year old motor any fuel provided the price is right .Used Petrol cars are cheaper than Diesels to buy but more expensive to run cheaper to maintain so not to much of a difference in costs over 4 years .hybrids look good but a bit pricey for the amateur driver =under 50hours a week So im looking cheap probably petrol 6 year old under 6000,
Nobody ever mentions the fact that your car makes money..... I consider meself retired since the day I started taxi in...i don't consider it a job cause it's not work.... It's a hobby....
I've 20,000 up on me prius in 3 months....
I don't want some jips casts me off an all the shite comes wit it.... Wonderin if it's clocked and was it crashed...
Fuk that
Loads people out there buying brand new cars caustic them 200 a week and it sits outside there job all day doin fuk all.....
Now the way I see it.... If you sittin in it 8 ours or even 4 a day....and it's paying for itself.......
Why the fuk wud yu be buying a shite heap
That causes yu grief?
I don't have to worry bout anymore about me egr valve, starter, alternators flywheels, timing fukin belts and gettin fukin cancer front the fumes Cummin into the cab....
And I'm spending half the money on petrol..... The fukin prius is paying for itself...
Yur not going live forever.... Enjoy it while yu can wit trouble free motoring....
Ease of mind and the pleasure of driving a car that's nearly driving itself.....
Plus clearing yurconscince of spewing shite into the atmosphere for yur grand kids to breathe ....
Best fukin ting I ever done
How many people do yu know make money out of there car.....? Pizza man an us...... Go on treat yurself to peace of mind
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what you recomending used/new Prius
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Octavia or Superb all the way.
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Octavia or Superb all the way.
bought a new occy never had a days peace withit 2008 dealer said they were shite in 08 that was the year the emissions were cut in half and they jerrymandered the engines to mess with the emissions .If I was buying new id by a PRIUS or Aurus Sport but i find it hard to justify the expense as i only do30 hours a week .
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Either/eider John.....i bought new in 2006....bought a 4 yr old in 2015....i'll more than likely buy second hand again(cos i feel i only work part-time meself),i'll have around 15k saved when i have to change in 2021(if i'm not brown bread and the missus gets the gaff paid off and around 300k in her phoca)....i'll be 56...and 4 months young in the Feb....if the lecky range has improved even more by then i might consider that option(the NTA grants expire at the end of 2021)....if not it'll be Prius again...if the NTA don't move the goalposts to suit whatever agenda they want to push at that time.
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Dunno if diesel isnt amazing how come all the Taxi drivers all over Europe drive them?You never see a hybrid bus or truck.What if yer battery fails might cost 10k to fix?Or maybe an inverter 20k?You'd barely fit one full-grown taxi man in them hybrids.Imagine all the folks that might not be able to get to the airport with 3 cases.What about all the precious metals they use in the batteries.One fella was tellling me he'd be afraid he'd get cancer from the magnetic fields coming from the charging system.I'd rather get cancer from the diesel fumes than a poxy battery.I doubt those hybrids would get ya up Howth head.Ya never see milk floats up there and they're electric.Not worth a bollix.What if someone calls ya a bender?.....taxi drivers are morons...
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Sure diesel is 10 cent a liter cheaper and dual mass flywheels and injectors only cost thousands....you'd be mad to move off the winning team Erm..
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Someone calling you a bender?.....if you're that thin skinned you're in the wrong game.....although if you were LBGTi...you could have them arrested and make sure they get a STIFF suspended sentence!!
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Did ya know the second gen Prius has more more horsepower than a 1980s Golf GTI?Everyone remembers how slow those things were.Hybrid me bollix.
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Mate of mine who drives a Mercedes diesel says Toyota had to build the hybrids because their engineers weren't as smart as the German Engineers.Thick fuks them Japs.Must be all the radiation..
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I'd say your new neighbours think the Prius is shite....cos it's in the garden most of the time.
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Wouldn't drive one Hal.The marque of a cunt...I think my Neighbours are just happy I don't have a horse tied up in the garden.
I'm on the green rank BTW..
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Very apt....didn't think they let cunts on that rank.
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Plenty around me..
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Mate of mine who drives a Mercedes diesel says Toyota had to build the hybrids because their engineers weren't as smart as the German Engineers.Thick fuks them Japs.Must be all the radiation..
rofl
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John.... New or second hand doesn't matter..... I got a new one but on account of me OCD I can't sit in antin that some other smelly c..t was sittin.... Be like ridin another mans mot.....
Watever yur budget.... The cars a fukin legend.... I fukin love goin out to work hobby) it
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Another red herring........Octy now has OCD.............genius..............
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Another red herring........Octy now has OCD.............genius..............
Disability allowance?
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Jap Prius
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I've never bought new, always a second hand car that will do me for 3 years.
I only done 87000 last year
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a common fault with skoda cars is the dual mass flywheel goes
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A 5 year old Prius every 5 years. Cost around 9k on donedeal
Prius holds its value very well indeed you will get 4k for your
10 year old prius, so really a 5 year old will cost only 5k net.
Huge savings in maintenance alone would make the Prius pay for itself
Add fuel savings and peace of mind and you will be a happier healthier man
Probably the only main worry for the Prius is the Battery, but they rarely bring
trouble before 200k miles and even if they do, a second hand one on ebay is
around 500 euros and its so easy to put in, or Merc. can recondition yours for
less(mates rates anall)
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Back when my battery went I couldn't source a decent used pack.All the ones I found in the breakers yards were dead.Hopefully the yards have copped on that they need to be trickle charged to keep them alive every few months.
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20k in 3 months, Octy. Fuckin' 'ell, I wouldn't want to get your income tax bill by mistake!
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Another red herring........Octy now has OCD.............genius..............
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Lippy yuv more decimal point dots after Ocd than you you do after genius..........
Any chance yu cud fix it?
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20k in 3 months, Octy. Fuckin' 'ell, I wouldn't want to get your income tax bill by mistake!
Don't know Wat the fuk I'm doin wrong ratti.... I HAVNT a fukin clue Wat I'm doin cause I earn less than most yiz here from Wat I can tell.
The fukin tax man crippled me last year and I didn't earn fuk all in 16....
Shudden married an accountant.....
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I've never bought new, always a second hand car that will do me for 3 years.
I only done 87000 last year
87 bleedin thousands???? ???
Holy fuk Tony..... It's a bleedin helicopter you need
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I've never bought new, always a second hand car that will do me for 3 years.
I only done 87000 last year
87 bleedin thousands???? ???
Holy fuk Tony..... It's a bleedin helicopter you need
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I have my current piece of shit skoda superb almost 5 years. It was 2 years and 11 months when i got it for €11250, imported and on the road as a taxi. It was paid off in 3 years so for the last 2 it was free and I hope to keep it for another 2 years until the 10 year rule takes it off the road. I’ll only consider another Superb or a hybrid Camry. The car has to be big, I’m no5 a small fella, both in height and width(but not John m width)
€100 a week saved every week for me new jammer when the time comes to replace it has me a nice l7mp sum to pay off my new/newer car
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FFS Matt im doing me best lost 10 Lbs last month and 2 ton today in the bookies . lol lol lol
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FFS Matt im doing me best lost 10 Lbs last month and 2 ton today in the bookies . lol lol lol
I dunno who Matt is but since you replied to my post I’m gonna say FairPlay to you Erm. It’s a start and in the right direction.
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Sure diesel is 10 cent a liter cheaper and dual mass flywheels and injectors only cost thousands....you'd be mad to move off the winning team Erm..
Just spent nearly a grand replacing 3 injectors in my low mileage octy.A Prius plus for me next January before the erg or the dual mass flywheel packs up.
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That's an expensive problem.Anything that costs so much to fix takes weeks to recover from.It shouldn't be something that is considered a normal part of diesel ownership .Hopefully ya get better luck with the next motor.
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Sure diesel is 10 cent a liter cheaper and dual mass flywheels and injectors only cost thousands....you'd be mad to move off the winning team Erm..
Just spent nearly a grand replacing 3 injectors in my low mileage octy.A Prius plus for me next January before the erg or the dual mass flywheel packs up.
Sweet jeezus......
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Probably all these lgbt valves is clogging up cause ye do day work....
Never had any that problems..
Just the flywheels an timin belts.... I used change the hydraulic actuators as well cause it was a tow job wen they went......
I used love me octavia cause it took me tru hard times..... Anyone try do antin to it ide go for them wit clenched fist like it was me wife........
Wen i seen me new prius in the dealers forecourt and was trading it.....
I never said goodbye....
i Just tru the key at yur man and said there ya go..... Ya can have the fat owl cunt.
Like getting a divorce
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'Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.'
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Can anybody give an honest answer. Is there any savings on fuel, going from 1.6 diesel to prius? I know there is savings mantanice wise, but is there any on fuel?
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All our answers are honest.The only way to compare is to stick up yer own numbers and someone will do the maths.
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https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/skoda/octavia-2004/16-mpi (https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/skoda/octavia-2004/16-mpi)
https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/toyota/prius-2016 (https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/toyota/prius-2016)
These mite help Billy boy
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Sorry think I put the petrol octavia up....
Yull have to type your own engine in.....
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I've never bought new, always a second hand car that will do me for 3 years.
I only done 87000 last year
87 bleedin thousands???? ???
Holy fuk Tony..... It's a bleedin helicopter you need
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Is that a mistake Tony?
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Fuck me, that's some kilometreage.
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Can anybody give an honest answer. Is there any savings on fuel, going from 1.6 diesel to prius? I know there is savings mantanice wise, but is there any on fuel?
Not sure about lower maintenance. Me MKII Octy averages out at 6 ton per year since I got it in Jan 2014. With the Prius you're carrying an extra "engine" and a €3,000 battery. If I buy one it'll probably be a Jap import so there could be parts trouble ahead. I know the dealers claim they are homogenous but they said that about the Corollas and Coronas back in the 80s and 90s... until you tried to get a ball joint or a drop link or something. The models seem to be released earlier in Japan so it stands to reason that parts may be quite different by the time any production model reaches the UK/Irish market.
My other dilemma is what to do with my Octy. It's in pretty good shape having been meticulously maintained so logic suggests it'll do Mrs. Catcher for a couple of years. However, it is getting towards the kilometreage where it'll be due a second Clutch/Flywheel replacement (€600 last time from Euroclutch, Baldoyle) and a second timing belt replacement (€400 last time from Annasley Williams)... and then the insurance will be higher than her current petrol Fabia.
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'Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.'
I say that exact line to cunts whenever they ask me why i'm not married or going caso. they never get the reference.
i'm talking to an empty telephone 'cause there's a dead man on the other end of this fucking line.
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^^Think about one of them Leafs Rc.Bloke in town claims to be getting 280km per charge.The 60Kw battery will be released next year with better range.Grants are generous too if you can get the rest of the bread together.
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If the range gets to 500kms...i'd be very tempted...maybe by 2021 it will....and NTA grants expiring at the end of that year.
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That 500km is a whole weeks work for me.:-).
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Very true MFH....i don't want to be stopping at night to charge me jammer...just so i can get home!!
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Can them Prius go faster than 80kM
Always limping along on the slow lane on the M50,
And the N11,
What will be like when they removed the egg beater of a engine, and fill the space with batteries. rofl
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I'd aim for a 5-7yr old diesel Superb or Octavia & try to avoid getting a loan. I learned the expensive way that a car will keep going forever as long as you keep the oil topped up ::fight
Also, too much uncertainty in the near future (Brexit, Trump, SF/PBP/AAA getting into power) to buy new or spend any sort of money. Apart from things like Brexit, a crash would put you out of business and/or some cnut could steal your taxi and burn it out. Also, lots of stories in the newspapers about people targeting taxis in fake crash scams.
With most of the country driving diesels, they ain't gonna disappear anytime soon. With all the scare stories about them and hipsters buying electric, you should be able to pick up a cheap-ish second-hand one?
I don't get the hybrids anyways. As I understand it, they drive for 40miles or so on electric and then switch back to the 'real' engine. You're paying a lot upfront for the extra weight and 2 engines for those electric miles? And I don't understand how the Prius is legal considering how small the boot is! Can you even fit the weekly shopping in there?
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I'd aim for a 5-7yr old diesel Superb or Octavia & try to avoid getting a loan. I learned the expensive way that a car will keep going forever as long as you keep the oil topped up ::fight
Also, too much uncertainty in the near future (Brexit, Trump, SF/PBP/AAA getting into power) to buy new or spend any sort of money. Apart from things like Brexit, a crash would put you out of business and/or some cnut could steal your taxi and burn it out. Also, lots of stories in the newspapers about people targeting taxis in fake crash scams.
With most of the country driving diesels, they ain't gonna disappear anytime soon. With all the scare stories about them and hipsters buying electric, you should be able to pick up a cheap-ish second-hand one?
I don't get the hybrids anyways. As I understand it, they drive for 40miles or so on electric and then switch back to the 'real' engine. You're paying a lot upfront for the extra weight and 2 engines for those electric miles? And I don't understand how the Prius is legal considering how small the boot is! Can you even fit the weekly shopping in there?
The 40 miles you speak of are the PHEVs...they revert back to a normal hybrid...petrol/electric when that charge has expired....40 miles is useless for a taxi and certainly not worth the extra money....
The boot space on my Gen 3 Prius has plenty of room,don't know why you think it too small.
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'Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.'
I say that exact line to cunts whenever they ask me why i'm not married or going caso. they never get the reference.
i'm talking to an empty telephone 'cause there's a dead man on the other end of this fucking line.
Ah sure........let them off with a Heckler-Koch headbutt........ lol
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The 40 miles you speak of are the PHEVs...they revert back to a normal hybrid...petrol/electric when that charge has expired....40 miles is useless for a taxi and certainly not worth the extra money....
The boot space on my Gen 3 Prius has plenty of room,don't know why you think it too small.
I haven't done an in-depth study of car boots but the Prius' I have seen look on the small side. I have an Octavia - boot is big enough for two dead bodies. Or so I'm told ::fds It's all relative, I guess.
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What's really interesting about the hybrids etc are the same questions yis ask.I mean Hal and I...and other posters now have answered all the queries at nausium and yis still don't absorb the information.Is it that you don't believe what we're saying?Why would we lie and what would we gain?
We already done all this on Roys.Were yis all playing contact sports as kids?Even S has recently asked me the same stupid questions that were answered on Roys years ago when I bought my Prius.Yis seems a little soft in the head and I'm trying not to sound like a prick about it.Maybe in years to come diesel owners can sue for memory loss issues....assuming they remember what they're doing.Something proper wrong with yis.
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Lot of them Fillipinos in the Phoeno wearing hybrid jackets at the mo. Poor auld scobies from Ireland, the indigeenious, must be losing out to the hand-shandy for a fiver brigade.
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Lot of them Fillipinos in the Phoeno wearing hybrid jackets at the mo. Poor auld scobies from Ireland, the indigeenious, must be losing out to the hand-shandy for a fiver brigade.
Stagg!
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I've never bought new, always a second hand car that will do me for 3 years.
I only done 87000 last year
87 bleedin thousands???? ???
Holy fuk Tony..... It's a bleedin helicopter you need
(https://s15.postimg.cc/m1qoul3pj/Screenshot_20180721-141300.png) (https://postimg.cc/image/m1qoul3pj/)
Is that a mistake Tony?
Nope..
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Were any of yis licking large amounts of batteries when yis were children?We need to get to the bottom of this..
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Probably lickin a lot of christian brothers batteries.
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What's really interesting about the hybrids etc are the same questions yis ask.I mean Hal and I...and other posters now have answered all the queries at nausium and yis still don't absorb the information.Is it that you don't believe what we're saying?Why would we lie and what would we gain?
We already done all this on Roys.Were yis all playing contact sports as kids?Even S has recently asked me the same stupid questions that were answered on Roys years ago when I bought my Prius.Yis seems a little soft in the head and I'm trying not to sound like a prick about it.Maybe in years to come diesel owners can sue for memory loss issues....assuming they remember what they're doing.Something proper wrong with yis.
I hear ya Merc......
Your tryin convince the hairy ear brigade..... Yur forgettin that good few on herr wear shiney black slacks an diamond patterned socks, have miraculous medals hangin out their mirrors, pickin an flickin half the day sittin outside bingo halls an lidls reading the racin post an the sun an buying scratch cards......
Most them set in their ways
....if they got their mornin bleakest roll an the black puddin or rasher was missin.....
They have a breakdown......
Wasting yur time
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By the time taxos are forced to go electric.....
They be pushing up daisies......
Be like yur prius....... Don't waste yur energy
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So the consensus is Hybrid is the way forward for the Economically socially prudent service provider but if your a Taximan you do what you want ....you know you will.
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Ha I have hairy ears too Octy..Hybrid is the car of the minute Erm but for many drivers fully electric will be the next step.
Erm did you ever find out how much one of then Leaves cost after every grant is received.Even the SEI grant of 3800?
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Just lookin on Cars Ireland....Fermoy Nissan have one for €32,540...that includes the €5,000 grant that the normals get,
We get the €3,800 SEAI grant plus €7,000 NTA grant(if it's new)...so €37,540 - €3,800 - €7,000 = €26,740,
I think i'll be in another Prius in 2021 so!!
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I think the base model is 27k after the 5000 vrt reduction.
27000-(7000 NTA+3800 SEI grant) is 16200 on the road plus you get a 600 euro grant off a fast charger for yer gaff if ya need one.Also if yer a Mytaxi slave they'll give you a 1000 off yer commission.Real cost would be 15200 plus balance of any fancy charger.
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End game:
All vehicles will be EV.
Electricity prices privatised and raised to the roof.
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End game:
All vehicles will be EV.
Electricity prices privatised and raised to the roof.
Hybrids be banned too yea,,,,,
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Probably go like the mobile phone.....
Probably mistake buy new thinkin you get 10 years.... Chargers not fitting and changing and costing..... Second hand prius at moment probably smartest ting do
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The end game for EV owners is buying giant batteries for yer gaff that ya can charge from Solar panels on the roof to power yer house at night or yer leccy cars etc...The tech is here but its expensive.
I think there's a way to power yer gaff already from the new leaf.Probably pricey though.
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What's really interesting about the hybrids etc are the same questions yis ask.I mean Hal and I...and other posters now have answered all the queries at nausium and yis still don't absorb the information.Is it that you don't believe what we're saying?Why would we lie and what would we gain?
We already done all this on Roys.Were yis all playing contact sports as kids?Even S has recently asked me the same stupid questions that were answered on Roys years ago when I bought my Prius.Yis seems a little soft in the head and I'm trying not to sound like a prick about it.Maybe in years to come diesel owners can sue for memory loss issues....assuming they remember what they're doing.Something proper wrong with yis.
Shit, forgot what I was going to ask...
I wouldn't buy a Leaf until there's at least 1,000 in use as taxis. If they're shite they won't get to that level. It's the range when the (€8,476?) battery is a few years old that interests me really.
Anywaysanall Doc, why aren't you married?
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Here sure there's only 500k allocated for grants.That's approximately 500 new full taxis.I saw two new taxi ones today within. 20 seconds.
I'd say if you got 5 years out of one then scrapped it to start again it wouldn't be a bad bet at 4k a year.Obviously I'd need to get ten years from one as I'm a bit Jewish like that.
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Owning one would probably be like a youngster with a mobile phone... fuck it in the brown bin once the battery deteriorates. I shudder to think of the damage to the environment caused by manufacturing, replacing and disposing of all those batteries.
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By the time taxos are forced to go electric.....
They be pushing up daisies......
Be like yur prius....... Don't waste yur energy
https://www.independent.ie/life/motoring/car-news/government-is-sticking-to-its-plans-to-have-only-new-electric-cars-on-sale-here-by-2030-36574486.html (https://www.independent.ie/life/motoring/car-news/government-is-sticking-to-its-plans-to-have-only-new-electric-cars-on-sale-here-by-2030-36574486.html)
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By the time taxos are forced to go electric.....
They be pushing up daisies......
Be like yur prius....... Don't waste yur energy
https://www.independent.ie/life/motoring/car-news/government-is-sticking-to-its-plans-to-have-only-new-electric-cars-on-sale-here-by-2030-36574486.html (https://www.independent.ie/life/motoring/car-news/government-is-sticking-to-its-plans-to-have-only-new-electric-cars-on-sale-here-by-2030-36574486.html)
Think the Germans are the same... 2030 seems the goal.... Cud be sooner tho if we get worse summers like this one next year....
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I'm sure FG and the rest of them have plans to cure world hunger by 2030 as well. A week is a long time in politics so it's easy to promise sh1t 12 yrs in the future. Vlad probably won't even be in Irish politics in 12 yrs time. He'll probably be running Europe or something.
You hippies in your Prius' are like people who've given up smoking and are now the most anti-cigarette people around. You'd swear youse never driven a diesel in your life!
RC is right - let 1,000 other taxi drivers experiment with these batteries. Once the dust has settled, then the prudent taxi driver can buy something reliable. The price you pay the dealer is not the only cost of a taxi. You have to factor in servicing and replacing faulty parts for the next 5+ years... You can shop around for a broken whatsit but Toyota etc can charge what they want for a new battery and take as long as they want to fit it.
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They've been around a long time.The new leaf is very similar to the old one, just has an improved range.I think one of the first cars ever were made electric.Possibly Daimler.I'd like yis to keep driving and buying diesels so the incentives increase for the rest of us.
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All ya need is a few pallets and yer Argos socket set and her ready to go..
https://youtu.be/MQAcZ_unz_M
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All ya need is a few pallets and yer Argos socket set and her ready to go..
https://youtu.be/MQAcZ_unz_M
So basically you could buy the new battery for an older Leaf, if it was cost effective of course