Jackpot ! Lifetime Plug-in Battery Warranty

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  1. hill

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    Some days you wake up on the right side of the bed. Got the note below in the mail - from the manufacturer of our minivan. It gets ~ 33mi per charge - running all electric - which is >90% of our drives
    Do in part to bad LG cells - our traction pack was replaced when it had about 20k miles on it. That was when the minivan was 5 years old. 3 years later, & now that it's 8 years old - & if reading the letter correctly, no matter how many years or no matter how many miles - the battery now has a lifetime warranty LOL

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    Was planning on posting an 8 yr review - now that it has 30k + miles on it.

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    That's a screenshot was from last month when temperatures were pretty nice. The efficiency readout covers the last 400 mi. Freezing temps the past few days means the estimated mileages drops down around 65 mpge - because cold temps & running the heater get help from the ICE.

    The $2K extended bumper to bumper warranty we purchased runs for a couple more years. So between the newer battery, our relatively low odometer miles & this warranty/class action update from Chrysler, it looks like it might be best to run this pig until both the body rusts & the wheels fall off. Then again it might be quite a selling point if this warranty carries over to second owners.
     
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    Until Chrysler goes bankrupt or gets sold again.:(

    That warranty isn't for all Pacificas and you'll still need to deal with any ICE or EV power-train issues?
     
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    Whenever we take the vehicle in for an occasional glitch or another - they always seem to fight us for a rental car, but in today's world - that's practically par for the course sad to say.
     
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    great deal! i'd try to keep it running forever. i wonder why LG didn't do that for gm.
     
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    I'm guessing the number of Bolts which has many more battery modules, it would've been cost prohibitive. They've already replaced all of them once before. Whereas Chrysler sold less hybrid Pacifica with much smaller, less modules, traction packs.
     
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