UZAVER FIELD MANUAL 01THE PRICE WALL
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Volume One  ·  First edition  ·  July 2026

They built a
$10,300 car.Nobody told you
what it does
to yours.

A 56-page field manual on what the Chinese car boom actually does to your next purchase, your resale value and your trade — and the 11 decisions that decide whether you win or lose thousands.

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China · entry electric$10,300
USA · average new vehicle~$50,000
Dated May 2026 · Verify before acting · p.7
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The Price Wall — Uzaver Field Manual Volume One, front cover
The problem nobody prices for you

Everything your father taught you about buying a car just expired.

Buy the reliable badge. Keep it ten years. Service it locally. Sell it for a third of what you paid. Every clause in that sentence is now unstable — and the instability costs real money.

Failure point 01

The badge is 18 months old

More than twenty Chinese marques are already on sale in Australia alone. Industry bodies have said plainly that not all of them will survive locally. The warranty is only worth the company behind it.

Failure point 02

A scrape becomes three months

Owners report eight-to-sixteen week waits for body panels on newer models. Insurers know it, which is why premiums on new entrants run higher — a cost quoted to you after you've fallen in love with the car.

Failure point 03

Resale nobody can forecast

When the product improves 30% every eighteen months, a three-year-old car isn't competing with other used cars. It's competing with a better new one that costs barely more.

What's inside · 56 pages · 15 chapters

Not an explainer. A decision tool.

You can watch the news for free. What you can't get for free is the working half — the checklists, tests and scripts you carry into a showroom and use on someone who wants your money.

01The Cost StackSix structural reasons the price is real — and why only one can be removed by policy
02The Battery Is The CarLFP vs nickel, and the chemistry that quietly decides your bills
04The Depreciation TrapWhy fast progress destroys resale, and the subtraction to do before signing
05Five Costs Nobody Quotes YouInsurance, panels, subscriptions, charging, and the warranty that only exists on paper
06The Brand Survival ScoreScore any badge out of 20 before you finance it. Under 11 means lease or walk
07The 11 DecisionsThe master checklist. Five of them happen before you sit in a vehicle
08The Spec-Sheet Lie DetectorCLTC, WLTP, EPA and the three words that void any claim
09The Battery Health TestNever buy a used EV without this number. Red flags and the inspection list
10The Real Charging MathYour true cost per mile, in six lines, with a worksheet
11The Showroom Script12 questions, and the answers that should scare you
13If You Work In Or Around CarsWhat shrinks, what grows, and the credential with the highest return in the trade
AAustralia: Your Legal PositionConsumer guarantees that outlive the warranty — and your mechanic's legal right to the data
Actual pages, not mock-ups

Every number carries the month it was true.

Manufacturer performance claims are labelled as claims. Worked examples are labelled as illustrations. There is a page at the back telling you exactly how to check the whole book against primary sources. A manual about a market moving this fast that pretends its figures are permanent is lying to you.

Sample page: the spec-sheet lie detector chapter Sample page: the showroom script chapter
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01

No invented numbers

Every figure is dated and sourced, or clearly marked as an illustration. Nothing is fabricated to sound impressive.

02

No cheerleading

Chinese cars are neither miracles nor traps. This tells you the specific risk profile and how to read it.

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Refund, no argument

If it doesn't change a single decision you make, reply to the receipt within 30 days and it's refunded.

Before you buy

Straight answers.

I live in the US and can't buy a Chinese car. Is this useless to me?

No — and there's a chapter on exactly your situation. You're affected through four channels: the price ceiling global competition puts on everyone else's products, the cells and components already inside cars you can buy, your current vehicle's resale value, and the risk that a model you buy loses its US market access mid-generation. That last one isn't hypothetical: in June 2026 a Swedish brand assembling cars in South Carolina was pushed out of the US market over who owns it.

Is this just the videos in written form?

No. The videos explain what happened. This is the part that doesn't fit in a video — worksheets, scorecards, a 12-question script for the showroom, a used-EV inspection list and a decision tree. It's built to be printed and carried, not watched.

What format is it, and can I print it?

A single PDF, US Letter, designed for both screen and paper. It works on any phone, tablet, laptop or printer. No app, no account, no reader software.

The book says figures go stale. Will mine?

Some will — that's why they're dated. But the frameworks don't: the depreciation subtraction, the survival score, the charging math and the showroom questions work the same in 2030. And when figures move, you get the new edition free.

Do I get all three volumes straight away?

Yes. Every volume you buy downloads immediately — 113 pages across the three, plus every future edition free. Nothing is a pre-order.

What if it isn't for me?

Reply to your receipt within 30 days and you'll be refunded in full. You keep the files. No form, no explanation required.

One decision · $20,000 to $80,000

The cheapest thing
in this whole market
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