I was one of the very fortunate ones to get a great deal on a EQS. I’m thrilled with the car, the leasing agent and the entire experience I had. This is not a complaint per se, but just sharing my absolute shock at replacing the battery (thank goodness for insurance).
My wife and I have driven the EQS for about 2000-3000 miles, mostly just picking up kids from school, short costco trips - we are safe drivers, and are very careful as this is an expensive car. My wife came home the other day, and the car was leaking coolant. I thought, loose hose, etc and took it directly to Mercedes.
Repair estimate to fix 49,000. HOLLLY CRAP. Apparently a road hazard punctured thru our battery, it is a small hole (looks like a bullet hole but it isn’t) and requires the entire battery to be replaced. There are not many available and they are extremely expensive (more than double tesla batteries)
Just wanted to share my shock at the cost. We’ll be OK - but wow.
I agree - I had a model S and it was armored on the bottom. This does not appear to have the same level of protection. The first pic is the shield and it doesn’t seem to be that tough. I kind of freaked out afterwards thinking I could have had a ticking bomb in my garage.
yeah op you’re really lucky that this wasn’t more serious.
i’d call MB USA and read them the riot act about how their 100k electric car battery isn’t properly protected from road hazards. unless you drove over a giant rotating spike i can’t possible imagine what would not make this a design flaw. maybe call NTSB?
We are honestly very careful drivers. My one complaint about this car is it rides a bit low. I don’t recall a “bottom out” or anything like this. In any event - going over a speedbump shouldn’t puncture the car - unless there was a rebar or something sticking out. We drive it so local so we retraced our steps - and didn’t find anything. Puts alot of doubt in every day driving.
Repair is going to be to unplug the old one and plug in the new one…
