this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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The issue nobody ever thinks about is how will you get parts and do maintenance? Who is going to know how to fix it? Who is going to know how to get the parts? For my car I can drive it to the shop on the corner and they have a truck that comes by in the afternoon that will bring them the parts and they can fix it. That truck will never contain the parts needed to fix my imported BYD. Maybe you can get tires, but could you even get brakes for instance?
So even if you could, it would be prohibitively expensive if not impossible to maintain and repair when something goes wrong.
Brake pads and rotors are things you could probably find, but you're right - there will eventually be something to be repaired that will require some research to get the right parts.
It would be pretty difficult to find someone who would want to work on it, so it'd be a DIY-heavy car for sure.