Qmerit 60-amp service install

At least you have your vehicle. I preordered in 5.2022 and still do not have an order number.

My price from Merit was $2200 less 1500 Caddy dollars. I’m having an electrician do it for $500.

I hired a local electrician and had a 50 amp plug put in for far less than the $2200 estimate from QMerit. I would have had to pay the $700 plus above the $1500 Cadillac credit. I ended up purchasing a Juice box 40.

Agreed.. quote me for $3300 Qmerit. DONT waste time with Qmerit. Choose 2 years with evGo to make sure you like the Lyriq first. Gm tech/app miles behind Tesla.

I had my 60A circuit installed on January 19 after first being told it would be at least a 10 week wait. I said I would take a cancellation and got it after about a month.

The local Qmerit contractor quoted $2300 after two non-Qmerit licensed electricians quoted $1700. It went with the Qmerit bid since I was less out of pock than if I had paid for the non-Qmerit myself. They know you are getting the GM money and price accordingly. (We have very few public charges in my area so the free EVGo is worthless to me).

Now for the bad part. I watched the installer tighten the lugs down on the breaker and the EVCE and he used a screwdriver tightening it as hard as he could. Yesterday, I saw on the YouTube channel “State of Charge” that had a top level Qmerit “expert” on that that over tightening is just as bad as under tightening, so the so called highly trained installer did it wrong and may have created a fire risk by crushing the wires that could be a high resistance connection that could overheat and cause a fire.

Now I’m mightily pissed. When offices are open after Presidents’ Day I’m contacting both the installer and Qmerit to demand that they get another tech out to my home and do the job correctly.

Just because Qmerit says their contractors have “trained EV installers” does not make it so.

I tried to do what you suggested, but buried in some Cadillac documents I read that the $1500 is good ONLY when applied to wiring and by only a Qmerit approval contractor. If your wiring is super simple you might see if the contractor will include the EVCE in the price. They can only say no.

As to how to have it ready when the car arrives, my original dealer said they only put through the request to GM as you sign the purchase paperwork. I pressured the dealer to put it in when he had the VIN (after 20 months from the original order date) and that started the process. Depending on how busy the local contractor is that can be 10 weeks or more to actually get the ESCE installed. The online paperwork states you must have the charger there when the installer arrives – as in they only make one trip.

After getting a site visit, accepting the bid and getting an installation date, I said I would accept an earlier date if they had a cancellation. I was lucky and picked up a date 4 weeks early when they had a job that ended up taking two days less than anticipated.

Note that the fine print of the Qmerit bid acceptance says if you have the work done and do not purchase a Lyriq such that the $1500 credit has been used, then you owe Qmerit that money.

Now I have a Tesla Universal Wall Connector all ready to go. All I need now is a car to plug it into 😉

Having done residential and commercial electric work, I had planned on putting a 50 amp circuit in myself. But since Cadillac was offering 1500, i thought that I would give it a shot. Well that was a waste of time. Just got my quote of 2500 for a job that I will now do myself for less than 300.