I bought a major car firm’s new EV – it’s so unreliable… two days later it was in the garage needing £8,500 of repairs
A DRIVER who bought a Vauxhall Mokka Electric had to send it back to the garage for a £8,500 repair job two days after they bought it.
The Mokka Electric has now topped a survey of the least reliable electric SUVs.
One owner said: “Just two days after I got it, my car needed around £8500 worth of work done to it. Thankfully, it was fixed under warranty.”
The survey by Whatcar.com read: “Slow and sometimes costly repairs
were the main bugbears for the 13% of Mokka Electric owners whose cars went wrong.
“Of that group, 40% of cars were rendered undriveable, and half were out of action for more than a week.
“Although 90% of cars were fixed for free, the remainder cost more than £1500 to put right. “
The battery accounted for 40% of issues with the SUV. Sat-nav/infotainment accounted for 27%, air-con 13%, bodywork 13%, motor 13%, motor electrics 13%, non-motor electrics 13% and steering 13% of complaints.
The Jaguar I-Pace came second with a score of 85.9% followed by the Audi E-tron with a score of 92.6%.
The Sun approached Vauxhall for comment.
Mat Watson, from website carwow, recently test drove the six SUV electric vehicles (EVs) to test their maximum range.
The Tesla won the competition, although the electric SUV ran out of juice on a country lane.