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Old Apr 14, 2025 | 07:50 PM
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Sounds like mama will get rid of you if you try to get rid of her van. 🤣
if he got the lightning he could throw her in the frunk.
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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
if he got the lightning he could throw her in the frunk.
I'm sure she would love that 🤣
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Im seeing alot of Fisker Oceans with TLC plates. Color me shocked that they are put into such a demanding role with zero mfg support.
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Old Apr 16, 2025 | 05:32 AM
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what are TLC plates?
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Im seeing alot of Fisker Oceans with TLC plates. Color me shocked that they are put into such a demanding role with zero mfg support.
A leasing company bought out all of their available stock and is using them as fleet vehicles. They got them for ~14K a pop and are leasing them out for 300 a month to uber and Lyft drivers. Half of the stock is being used as the fleet and other half is being kept around for spares
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I haven't seen a Fisker in the Bay area for awhile, I imagine I'll see them when I go to SoCal next month.

At $14k a pop, if one breaks down, just hand the customer another
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Had my first issue on the MSP. Very little air flow coming out of the vents. They checked it remotely and had me test a few things. Turned out the big HEPA filter in the frunk was clogged. Plenty of air flow on recirculate, almost none when set to fresh air. Came out and fixed it at my home. A little less than $150. Very good experience. Going to do the air cabin filter myself later today.
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Originally Posted by AMIRZA786
I haven't seen a Fisker in the Bay area for awhile, I imagine I'll see them when I go to SoCal next month.

At $14k a pop, if one breaks down, just hand the customer another
I see a Fisker Karma around occasionally. Really beautiful car. Very Aston Martin, which isn't surprising.


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Originally Posted by AMIRZA786
I haven't seen a Fisker in the Bay area for awhile, I imagine I'll see them when I go to SoCal next month.

At $14k a pop, if one breaks down, just hand the customer another
Chase and Rivian were offering big incentives when the bankruptcy was first announced. Chase was the bank behind Fisker's finance arm and is who you go through if you finance through Rivian as well.

https://www.autoblog.com/news/rivian...s-buyback-plan
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Originally Posted by Bob04
I see a Fisker Karma around occasionally. Really beautiful car. Very Aston Martin, which isn't surprising.
probably as reliable.

in ev news i saw a vw buzz on the road today. looked much more underwhelming than what i thought it would look like.
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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
probably as reliable.

in ev news i saw a vw buzz on the road today. looked much more underwhelming than what i thought it would look like.
Saw one so far out in the wild at a local Bucees, owned by an elderly couple. Really friendly, mentioned they had a VW van way back when, and when they saw it at their only local small town VW dealer now, it was a pure nostalgia buy.

I did see the markups previously, but havent followed the market on them.
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The three amigos before leaving for work this morning


The fourth wasn't available
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So we don't have to move the cars around for charging, I went ahead and bought a 20 ft NACS extension cable:



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nice but note it says 50A so it should never be used at a supercharger!
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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
nice but note it says 50A so it should never be used at a supercharger!
Haha of course. This is 1000 percent for home use. It wouldn't work at a supercharger, as it would detect a cable problem. Tesla supercharger cables are liquid cooled (EA same)
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