I bought my firsts BEV yesterday - as a good local German resident I bought a VW ID3, the modern equivalent of the KdF cars the bloke with the funny walk used to sell.
Buying a used car in Germany was fairly tortious - the salesmen seemed very disinterested and know little about what they were selling. In 4 from 4 Main Dealers the seller were unfamiliar with the phrase "State of Health" and non of them were familiar with the spec levels. One dealer was even advertising a car that clearly wasn't the model advertised.
A bigger problem and more relevant to this forum is that 4 out of 4 VW dealers said the used car guarantee only applied within Germany and not even in neighbouring EU countries, ie as soon as you hit Venlo your on your own and either pay for repairs of get the car hauled back, an unappealing proposition from Stockport
I was very hartnäckig as I intend to drive 800km NRW to Stockport several times a year. Eventually one of the 4 main dealers relented, did some homework and came back with a VW guarantee valid in all western European countries. The catch is I must still pay for any repairs but can claim it back. That will be fun if it needs a battery module !
I was a bit puzzled why the car was referred to as "Glacier white" as there are no Glaciers in Wuppertal nor even in Wolfsburg but now after several hours of filling in forms I know why. The Anmeldung will take around 3 weeks while Germany's finest paper shufflers shuffle paper for all their worth. Clearly the Glacier is a reference to the speed of registration ! Hey Ho, Ordnung muss sein !
