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Is the warranty from GM, or is it a third party warranty being marketed by GM? Many third party warranty companies have gone belly-up, leaving the purchaser with a worthless warranty. If the warranty is being offered by GM, it’s very likely they’ll be around in 10 years, third parties, I’d...

I use helium, I had to add a couple of bags of Sakrete in the trunk to keep my Bolt from floating away.

I wouldn’t recommend using a torque wrench to remove wheel lug nuts, a simple and cheap 1/2” breaker bar is a lot easier to use, and you won’t risk damaging the torque wrench, or throwing off the wrench’s calibration. A 4-way lug wrench is also handy, the Bolt’s lugs are 19mm, or 3/4”, a size...

At 70 mph you will never get the rated 238 mile range, regardless of the outside temperature.

There’s no way to control battery warming in cold weather, it’s done automatically as determined by the car’s battery management system. Not sure if GM designed this to provide just the “bare minimum to get you rolling”, but whatever the engineers determined is required cannot be overridden. I...

The heated seats and steering wheel are nice options. I especially like heated seats for my aging lower back, and the heated steering wheel works well. I have the Kinetic Blue color, which I got because it was the only car on the lot with the options I wanted: DCFC and heated seats. The Bolt’s...

I stand corrected. Thanks for the explanation.

Thanks, that makes sense. I couldn’t imagine what “cable” would cost that much. For an even cheaper option, the standard Bolt L1 EVSE can be plugged into a 220v outlet using an inexpensive adapter. Charge times would probably be about three times that of a L2 32-amp EVSE, but the cost is...

+1 on keeping the inside of the windshield as clean as possible to help prevent fogging. I’ve had no issues with the front defogger, even on very cold and rainy days. It works well for me.

I agree that this is a solution in search of a problem, I had no idea the Bolt can do this, and I also have no idea why anyone would want or need to do this.

The Bolt Wifi is available for free for a trial period. If you don’t have an unlimited data planusing WiFi will save you the data usage vs your cellular plan. My free WiFi has expired, but I did use it during the trial period, I didn’t notice any performance difference vs the phone’s cellular...

I’m confused by your post. What cable did you purchase from Amazon for $260? Did you buy an EVSE, or are you using the Level-1 cord that came with the Bolt?

News reports today that the Senate version of the tax bill retains the $7500 credit. We’ll need to wait to see if both the House and Senate versions pass, then it will be up to the conference committee to iron out any differences, before a final bill is voted on in both houses. Still, that...

GM will lobby hard to keep the $7500 credit, and many other manufacturers have plants in southern states that lean Republican, so there’s hope the credit won’t be killed. You can bet a lot of state governors are also lobbying on behalf of those manufacturers. The $7500 credit isn’t a big...

You test drove a Bolt with only 27 miles of range? Time to find a dealer that cares enough about making a sale to provide a properly charged car for testing. Dealers do have chargers, many have Level 3 high speed chargers that can provide 100 miles of range in well under an hour, especially if...

One note on residual value. Although the lease agreement offers the leasee the option to purchase the car at lease end at the stated residual value, the reality is that the price is negotiable if the actual market value of the car is lower than the stated residual. GM and the dealer don’t want...

The $7500 tax credit is deducted from the total federal tax you owe in the year you buy the car. Most tax refunds are for overpayment of taxes through payroll deductions, but it’s your total federal tax obligation that’s important, not your refund amount. Also, based on recent proposed...

Purchasing the Bolt was not an option for me since I can’t claim the $7500 federal tax credit. I leased my Bolt back in June from a Long Island dealer in NY, I pay $250 a month for a 10k per year lease, and my total out of pocket was $2500. The sticker was $39,500 for an LT with all available...

I would bring that premature fabric wear to the dealer’s attention as a manufacturering defect, and ask that it be repaired under warranty. Otherwise, you’ll probably be on the hook for the repair at lease-end. No seat should be fraying after less than a year of use. If the dealer balks...

The Energy Information screen will show you what percentage of energy used is for propulsion / climate / battery conditioning. During the very mild fall here in the northeast the climate percentage was very small, somewhere between 0-5%. It’s been chillier the last few days, last climate...