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Extended Battery Warranty & Franchised Ampera’s for Sale???

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#1 ·
Hi chaps!

Seriously considering purchasing an Ampera and have seen plenty 12 - 14 plates.
Obviously a 14 plate will give me an extra few years battery warranty.
Can you extend the battery warranty etc with Vauxhall???

Also, I have seen a few on autotrader etc but I haven’t seen one Ampera for sale on the Vauxhall
website or Network Q any reason for this or is it that there are so flew out there????

Many Thanks
 
#2 ·
I wouldn't pay for any warranty that Vauxhall had their name on!
AFAIK you cannot extend the battery warranty but why bother as the number of failures registered on this site after six odd years is to my knowledge just one and that was very early in its life and probably just a manufacturing defect.
No batteries are showing age related problems either and there is a car in the US that has over 400,000 miles on it with over 100,000 EV miles.

My car is a keeper and am I worried about the battery compared to losing a cam belt/head gasket/water pump/clutch plate etc on a conventional car? No.
 
#3 ·
The main reason there are very few for sale is how few there were in total to begin with. I’ve seen figures around 1350 but certainly less than 1500. Secondly there is nothing appropriate and sufficiently equivalent to replace it with, so we hang onto them.
Full BEV is the only way forward for us and until this year there has been nothing of interest to me anyway. Maybe the Kona 64kw could be but I’m not sure I want lots of torque steer which the the Ampera somehow avoids, so I’ll wait for my Model 3 and even then I might keep my Ampera in the family.
There are a couple of specialist second hand EV dealers you should find. I think Autocar has had quite a few listed.


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#8 ·
I bought mine from a VX dealer, they had two... Stourbridge motorhouse in the Midlands. Both the cars had the all important warranty stamps in the service book and were sensibly priced.

Give them a look on auto trader, might have something
 
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#13 ·
Us Volt owners will now chime in with the typical - "make sure you also look for a Volt - it's the same car, different bumpers blah blah"... The Volt only came in top spec with the SatNav and Bose by the way.

Though admittedly there are far less of these than the Ampera, but 'historically' they have been slightly cheaper - though I think that is no longer the case.

It's quite shocking that the new Volt did not come to Europe in RHD form - it would compete very well (and beat) pretty much every PHEV/REEV on offer, it's a massive shame this is not happening.
 
#18 ·
There appears to be a MY14 on a 13 plate on autotrader. - rare to say the least!

Previous post by Spiny "there are a few (6?) MY14's in the UK - probably ex Vauxhall preview cars supposedly single colour seats and light coloured consol. Use the Vin to confirm if you find one.
Apart from the seat/dash colour, is there anything else different about the MY14?

I hadn't realised that the MY14 went as far back as Oct 2013. It seems that someone forgot to re-tax this one.

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Vehicle details
  • Vehicle make:VAUXHALL
  • Date of first registration:October 2013
  • Year of manufacture:2013
  • Cylinder capacity (cc):Not available
  • CO₂Emissions:27 g/km
  • Fuel type:Not available
  • Euro Status:Not available
  • Export marker:No
  • Vehicle status:Not taxed
  • Vehicle colour:WHITE
  • Vehicle type approval:M1
  • Wheelplan:2-AXLE-RIGID BODY
  • Revenue weight:Not available
 
#21 ·
I spent all last winter looking for an Ampera from a Vauxhaul dealer with intact 8 year warranty and it was like looking for a Unicorn. In some cases I was told it had the HV warranty but inspecting the service book revealed late servicing which would have invalidated the HV warranty. In the spring, with the need for a new car pressing I had just given up on one with a valid warranty when a local VW dealer advertised one. All the right services at all the right times so I bought it as quick as he could sell it to me. One interesting thing I noticed, was that many cars in the independent dealers had only recently missed their annual service date. I got the impression many Vauxhall dealers want nothing to do with Amperas and are perhaps auctioning them off to the trade, perhaps even sitting on them until the HV warranty is invalidated first. Anyway its all over now and I am very pleased with the car.
 
#22 ·
find it hard to believe even VX would do that, the car supermarkets do it out of ignorance and if you pay full price for a car out of warranty then you can return it if it was mis-sold as having the warranty.
Personally i would be looking for a substantial price cut for an out of warranty car.
Always worth an email to VX to check, the service book is not always the last word
Glad you got the car you wanted.
 
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