One concern I have is the potential glut of EVs coming off lease and flooding back into the market over the next couple of years. From what I am seeing, this could drive used EV prices down quite a bit.
The numbers are not small.
Industry data shows roughly 123,000 EVs are expected to come off...
Yes! Wraps are good longer now with the new UV additives. Like 7 year for good stuff And with a release spray and heat gun the new stuff comes off easier. The bad removals come from older wraps that were done 5 years ago with old tech and have not been taken care of.
Also there another option...
I get it. It use to be really hard a few years ago. We have family that runs a shop. It is hard with parts on a car. But from what I think will happen is most parts will come off and can be put on a table and that helps so much. All your cuts will be behind the panel. Also new wrap rolls are way...
For me 2 slates are cheap cars for my kids to drive. I am ordering two and hope to write them off as test bed for some parts manufacturing. But I will let my girls test drive them to school and college.
Also, I just sold my 2001 Ranger with 200k miles and need $6k of work for the clutch and...
So how many parts do you think are reused more than once? Like the arm rest and tail lights that just rotated I think. Maybe top of the bed it used twice. The air bags in the back look like the same bar. Using a part just twice cuts so much down.
Was thinking. I was planning to leave the top and doors off all the time. I wonder how it will do with the rain and water. We leave some Jeeps like that all year. And jump in them when we need a quick ride.