Smart sort of does have their own dealers. I got mine from Smart Center
Fairfield and there's another Smart Center in Hartford. Both are part of
a Mercedes dealer but they seamlessly sell and support the Smarts.
That's the problem with a niche car like this. You really need to be
located near one of the dealers that supports it. I don't blame you at
all for looking elsewhere.
My lease is up in January but I just extended it 6 months. The car does
what I need it to do and it's hard to think about replacing it when it
only costs me $121/mo including the $80 battery rental.
--Rick
On 11/6/2016 9:29 PM, Mark Hanson via EV wrote:
Initially I was thinking of a Smart ForTwo ED but the last straw with
Mercedes was requiring me to tow on a flat bed trailer up to Wash DC (250
miles - since the local Mercedes dealer refuses to service/sell Smarts)
annually for a $300 "battery check" service in order to keep the battery
warranty or "BAP" plan in effect. Most/all used Smart ED car prices require
you to add $5.1K to the price to "buy" the battery or continue the $80 per
month battery fee for 10 years ($9600 extra) - usually a nasty surprise to
the car buyer after he/she gets it home. From what I see Mercedes is doing
their best to kill the Smart EV. They've certainly driven me away from it
(pun intended). The local Mercedes dealer said they'd rather sell their
foo-foo Mercedes cars with high prices/profit margins than fool with Smart
Cars. Smart should have their own dealers or sell through a common man
priced car- dealers like Chevy, Toyota etc with a standard 100K 8 year
battery warranty like everyone else. I guess the half warranty 50K/4 years
is because it's half a car J but not half the price, certainly with the
"battery not included" extra battery cost L.
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