Are you familiar with the lithium battery bans on checked luggage? That’s your federal government. So would I be surprised if a rando private parking garage did the same? No.
Lee, I recently had scratches on the rear hatch of my 22 CR1 fixed by the body shop affiliated with my Ford dealer in Bloomer, WI. The entire door had to be painted. They did an excellent job and I’m certain it is the first EV they have worked on..Curious how many of you have run into this. I have a small scratch on my door from a rock I wanted fixed. My insurance has already quoted it. I called a body shop, gave them my vehicle type, and they scheduled my appointment and everything. Today I get a call back: “Oh, the computer says we can't work on it because it's electric". And I say, "It's just a door scratch, you don't have to take apart anything dangerous". “Sorry, but we're not certified and we don't have the safety equipment in case something would happen".I gave up at that point.
This is a national chain (Gerber), and apparently they have to certify each location for any EV work, no matter how small ('tis but a scratch). He said it affects Tesla, Ford, and Toyota vehicles (but not other brands?). Wonder if their ban applies to hybrid vehicles or not, because there are a lot of those these days. Which begs the question—if they work on hybrids, why not EVs?
I can see the concern if they have to drop the pack or something, but this excessive EV danger paranoia gets annoying at times. It's just another Ford SUV. The only thing they need to be careful about is not heating the crap out of the car during paint curing (less than 140ºF or something), but that's really easy, just turn down the temp a little bit.
I found another body shop affiliated with a Ford dealer, the first question I asked on the phone was "Do you work on ELECTRIC cars?", she had to check but then remembered they've worked on other Mach-E's. So I will start over again there.
Make sure you ask the EV question first with any body shop. I'm also disappointed a huge body shop would refuse to work on even minor body repairs.
Got a scratch myself, took it to my regular shop, a local non-chain, no problems, great work.Curious how many of you have run into this. I have a small scratch on my door from a rock I wanted fixed. My insurance has already quoted it. I called a body shop, gave them my vehicle type, and they scheduled my appointment and everything. Today I get a call back: “Oh, the computer says we can't work on it because it's electric". And I say, "It's just a door scratch, you don't have to take apart anything dangerous". “Sorry, but we're not certified and we don't have the safety equipment in case something would happen".
This is a national chain (Gerber), and apparently they have to certify each location for any EV work, no matter how small ('tis but a scratch). He said it affects Tesla, Ford, and Toyota vehicles (but not other brands?). Wonder if their ban applies to hybrid vehicles or not, because there are a lot of those these days. Which begs the question—if they work on hybrids, why not EVs?
Hey Steve, can you tell me the mobile “brand T shirted” company you used? I’m in Concord.
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Sure - but the probability of that happening while in the care of said National Chain is infinitesimally small. And a "quarantine" proves nothing - it's a lagging indicator. All it proves is "it didn't" NOT "it won't".
I ran into that for door ding out of 4 shops 2 would not touch it cause they weren’t EV certified yet the other 2 was listed in Fords repair list. The door ding was the car parked next to luckily I was sitting in the car at the time so her insurance paid for it. The bill for the repair was 4,000.00 dollarsCurious how many of you have run into this. I have a small scratch on my door from a rock I wanted fixed. My insurance has already quoted it. I called a body shop, gave them my vehicle type, and they scheduled my appointment and everything. Today I get a call back: “Oh, the computer says we can't work on it because it's electric". And I say, "It's just a door scratch, you don't have to take apart anything dangerous". “Sorry, but we're not certified and we don't have the safety equipment in case something would happen".
This is a national chain (Gerber), and apparently they have to certify each location for any EV work, no matter how small ('tis but a scratch). He said it affects Tesla, Ford, and Toyota vehicles (but not other brands?). Wonder if their ban applies to hybrid vehicles or not, because there are a lot of those these days. Which begs the question—if they work on hybrids, why not EVs?
I can see the concern if they have to drop the pack or something, but this excessive EV danger paranoia gets annoying at times. It's just another Ford SUV. The only thing they need to be careful about is not heating the crap out of the car during paint curing (less than 140ºF or something), but that's really easy, just turn down the temp a little bit.
I found another body shop affiliated with a Ford dealer, the first question I asked on the phone was "Do you work on ELECTRIC cars?", she had to check but then remembered they've worked on other Mach-E's. So I will start over again there.
Make sure you ask the EV question first with any body shop. I'm also disappointed a huge body shop would refuse to work on even minor body repairs.
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The original problem with batteries catching fire on planes were lithium and Li-on but very cheaply made and had no BMS. I just don’t feel that those incidents and the subsequent ban should be conflated with the battery technology currently used in EVs. I apologize for being so terse.
