Used electric cars. The FIVE golden buying rules | Electrifying

Liked and commented for the hustle 👍🏻👍🏻😀

Nicola has just gone from funny to annoying.
This is a fairly serious subject. It would have been better to have had the reassurance of Ginny this time.

I don't want a car. I want to motorboat.
Brrruummmbleblbebler

Battery state of health in used EVs is what interests me before buying one. There is no way I could afford a new EV but Prices of used EVs are looking quite good at the moment but how do you know if the battery is ok? Nicola says you can check the state of health in the cars electronic menu but can you ? I have been looking at lots of used EV adverts but none tells you the battery state of health. Is this something easily accesible or are we talking asking the dealer if we can plug a reader into the OBD port which may not go down well . Just saying that the battery is possibly guaranteed for maybe up to 8 years is not reassuring because the life of an ICE vehicle is usually well beyond this. For the used car buyer on a budget who maybe has in the past bought a 3/4 year old car and kept it 3/4 years who is going to want to buy his 6/8 year old electric car when it is time to change? I am in no way an EV hater a close relative has one and it a pleasure to be driven in just concerned about the hype. I dont think this a serious channel it is just about marketing

Love it when Nicola does videos on her own - feel like she is held back when other presenters are included 😂

Nicola is too dang funny. We must protect her at all costs.

Is Nicola on drugs again?

Rule No 1. Dont bother. Rule No 2. This channel is not independent

Uve just lost a subscriber

quarter of the way in... so far complete rubbish and not a golden rule... golden shower more like

Very well made video

what you haven't mentioned is range in cold weather, mine has a range of 193 miles, but in the winter I was getting 131 miles on a full charge, now in april and warmer weather it is 153 miles on a full charge, but the last 20% takes forever

Please don't try to be funny Nicola... Its just annoying.

A silly and childish video, I would expect better from you

Buy from a company that has lots of years of experience making EVs.
Buy a car with an LFP battery so that you can use the whole battery.
If you cannot charge at home, consider a hybrid instead.
If you want to tow, make sure the EV is capable and that a towbar is affordable.
Pre-paid service packs Nicola speaks of I believe are generally only available with new cars.
Get in and out of any intended purchase ten times to make sure it is easy for you to do. Many low slung cars require horrid contortion and head banging to get in.
Buy a hatch over a sedan as it is more flexible.
Avoid Stelantis as they underperform with helping original owners so second owners will struggle more.

I think I want a Nicola with my next car 🥰

Wow that was annoying

Here's an acronym that needs a massive upgrade, WLTP....this test and all previous tests have been completely out of touch with what any vehicle could ever wish to achieve, why can't they simply drive at 30, 50,and 70mph/kmh and tell us then what range we'll get at each driven speed, we can work the rest out, fed up with listening to claimed range

That’s great! Feel free to reach out.

Please tell us the facts and advice without the children’s tv presentation

Very sorry Nicola - I think this is bullshit.

The main reason for buying an EV would be the ‘automatic transmission’ is usually bulletproof, it being accomplished without shifting gears, friction plates, hydraulic control units, impellers and so on. A spinning magnetic field that pressing the accelerator, makes spin faster, and the rotor ( the rotating bit in the motor) tries harder to catch up. Much better. The main let-down is that the fossil-fuel giants in the gas & oil industry, were able to cripple sales just by one single campaign of fossil-fuel price rises, indirectly but inevitably inflating electricity energy costs. My main gripe with EVs is their lack of surplus heat - think cold day walking in the hills, returning to a cold car in the middle of a cold car park. Even a heat pump system doesn’t really fix this, so for our northern UK climate, I had to get a hybrid.

But, as I have done that, our grown offspring don’t have to. So they could choose an electric car, except truly the problems are the same as every other used car - mileage is so commonly reduced it is laughable. Mile-blockers, clockers, replacing the odometer, an app to ‘correct’ the mileage, all of this is trashing consumer rights. There must be a way ti certifiably know if a car has had its computer data messed with. Surely it’s time for a proper database of car mileages? We have one for what car is insured and what is not, and that is relied on for prosecutions by police, so there’s no reason we couldn’t have this for car mileages, if the computers were hardened against hacking. Does not need to be un-hackable, just able to make a record of the tampering happening. Our market in the UK is awash with great big fibs and we all know it…one more thing…

…MOTs. The other great big fibs. Almost 3/4 of the vehicles I have bought used, have had a failure I subsequently found, ought to have prevented an MOT pass at the time the dealer/vendor is purporting it was passed. These, were proper MOT stations, with properly-certified mechanics passing these cars. Seized brake caliper sliders for example, really hammer-out seized, apparently were passed just a couple months earlier, when the handbrake could never have worked at that time. In fact, faulty handbrakes, turn up quite a lot in my dozen or so cars bought used in the UK. But there is NO COMEBACK and so no steps realistically that could be taken. The people passing these cars, often have little associated tricks, like putting on the odd ‘token’ new part to imply proper maintenance etc. And fake claims like ‘one owner’ that turn out to mean one previous owner. It goes on and on.

Your points I find valid, but there’s a whole lot more wrong with the car market left unsaid - the issues are fundamental I am afraid.

best comment ive just read below, so will repeat it CHILDISH

Rule#1
Don't buy one.😅

I would very much recommend that anyone seriously considering buying a used EV go to EV specialist. You will get properly informed impartial advice as to what you could buy for your needs and budget. IMHO they will also not persuade you to buy an EV if this is not appropriate to your requirements. Also no bulls..t from EV ignorant sales people. If you are looking for an EV out of warranty the EV specialist’s will have the best stock as they know what they are buying and what to check out.

Rule one. Don't.
Rules two to five. Don't forget rule one. EVe are barely past the level of 1950s ICE, and the figures show poor relabillity and high maintenance costs. Just a silly noisy ad!

NO car is an "INVESTMENT"!!! Particularly an EV, is your IPhone an investment? Values of even Tesla go down by 50% in the FIRST year... NOBODY want's used like your phone!

Propaganda

I couldn’t watch beyond 2 minutes….

I have been watching the transport select committee meeting on the 15th May 2024. This committee meeting was all about electric cars and the second hand car market as the second hand electric car market is stalling. It was found that the main reasons were that a great deal of dealers will not touch electric cars as they do not have the expertise in engineers and special equipment to service electric cars so they wouldn’t put electric cars on their forecourt for sale. Customers who were thinking of buying a second hand electric car were put off buying one due to the worry of the electric car battery condition and the UK charging infrastructure. If you’re interested please go to parliament live tv to view this committee meeting held on the 15th May 2024.

Wow these cars so great, this makes me want to go out and buy a lovely stellantis group car.

So unfunny so embarrassing - stick to cars

This lady is treading a very fine line between annoying and entertaining. Better that than dull though.

Very condescending 😂 didn't know children bought cars

Five golden rules about buying an electric car: 1. Don't buy one. 2. Dont buy one. 3. Dont buy one. 4. Dont buy one. and 5. DON'T BUY ONE!! Easy and saves you a lot of time hassle and money if you follow these simple rules!!👍😎

As the most environmentally conscious thing to do as a car owver is keep drive it for a good 10, 15 even 20yrs - I'm staggered to see such new used EVs getting resold.

I would have thought the type of people who bought them cared about the environment and wouldn't be changing their cars so often. 🤔

So I'm strongly considering picking up a used Audi E-Tron 55, one that is a 2022 plate with less than 10k miles on the clock. In 2022 when it was new, it was £85,000! today it is £35,000. Too good to be true? I barely do any mileage, about 6k miles a year and I know the E-Tron batteries can do well over 150k without needing any servicing, so not an issue. Also the battery has an 8 year warranty on it.

Just wondering is there anything else I should be concerned about? yes it'll continue to depreciate, but It can't go much lower surely? it's a giant, luxury, high-end Electric SUV with over 400bhp, ride quality better than a GLE or X5, if it had a petrol motor in it, it would be pushing £100,000.

Totally disagree with the servicing is cheaper tag. It will cost more as you are limited to where you can service theses vehicles. Mostly you will need the dealership to service rather than independent garages, we all know how expensive dealerships are.

Would have preferred this to be less quirky and more factual. This wasn't helpful at all.

YOU DON'T WANT TO GET IT WRONG A

Rule 1......be prepared for massive depreciation

It helps slightly if you speed the video up.

Most annoying video on the planet. Stopped about 1 min in. Give ur head a shake

Also she says “a reputable dealer like spoticar” (Stellantis) “will show you who owned it previously”…….

Well that would be illegal and a serious GDPR breach - so spoticar is clearly NOT reputable!

Crap video - too much time wasting with unimpressive cheap acting.

Why are all cars Stellantis products? They make the most unreliable cars on the market! Even a no-name Chinese startup provides a higher quality and reliability than Stellantis does.
Are they sponsoring this video? If so, then I understand your “preferences” of the displayed cars.

What an annoying presenter

Wouldnt touch one without a rock solid warranty. And even then I wouldnt be keen.... 😉

Only buy a EV if you are a smuck with tens of thousands £££ to throw away .They are GROSSLY OVERPRICED / OVERATED/ LEMONS. NOBODY WANTS THEM SECOND HAND. DO NOT FALL FOR THE " BULL SHIT.

Just give the facts and be a motoring journalist. The overacting and comedy are a complete fail and so off putting. Could only watch 30 seconds