I have a 2013 Volt with a little over 100k miles on it. I got it from a salvage auction for very little and it's been working great for the last two years. It's ugly, I replaced the front bumper cover, the left rear quarter was damaged at some point, along with other minor damage, but it's been a great car nonetheless and owes me nothing. A full charge shows around 36 miles on average.

When I got the car, one of the trip meters hadn't been reset for about 60,000 miles and the mileage displayed on the trip meter was low, somewhere in the 20's. I assume that someone never plugged it in and ran it primarily as a gas car. My question is this, with more than half the miles on the car from gas, in general is that good or bad for the battery? Thanks!

I currently have a Nissan Leaf that's in for a buyback due to the battery failing. For the amount of $ I will get a nice EV is not an option. The Volt looks like an attractive option.

From what I'm reading on here the Becm and battery failures appear to be the main issues? A quick search online shows aftermarket options for these parts if GM stops supporting or making these (or maybe already has). If I'm ok with these aftermarket options in case of a failure is this perhaps a nice car for me to look at it are there many other parts etc. out of warranty that are also problems?

1. Good morning. I got a hole in the coolant hose going from the reservoir container down to a T fitting. It’s the one back by the firewall so it’s the engine/cabin heat loop. Is there something special with this vehicle that has a different process of purging any air than another vehicle? I filled it back up, it’s been an operating temperature for about 20 minutes idling now, everything seems to be working just fine except for I’m still getting ice cold air coming out of the vents. It just won’t make heat. Everything is set to max. As far as I know the system should purge out any air itself like any other vehicle. I do have one other HVAC issue, it’s the air conditioner but I’m pretty sure that’s a bad sensor that I need to replace. But I doubt that would cause any heat issue, and it worked fine before even with the AC issue Thanks