# New to Gem: Bought 2002 E825 for hilly area **URL:** \ **Category:** GEM Forum\ **Created:** [August 3, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/new-to-gem-bought-2002-e825-for-hilly-area/22061 "2021-08-03T21:29:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 45
**Author:** ![dougl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b19c9b/32.png) [@dougl](https://community.electricforum.com/u/dougl)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/new-to-gem-bought-2002-e825-for-hilly-area/22061/45 "2021-10-16T20:27:34Z")
LOL, please DON’T rub it in. My 2002 rides like a tank, can hardly do a U-turn on an empty street. If I had a crystal ball in 2017 I would not have paid $3,000 for it, not installed $700 disc brakes, not put new Pb batteries in it, not upgraded the headlights, not put Leaf Gen4 lithium batteries in it, etc etc and I would have purchased a used 2013 Nissan Leaf with worn batteries and only 50 mile range for $5,000. But I didn’t and now there’s no way I’ll get my $$ out of the GEM and can’t get an old Leaf for $5,000 as easily as we used to either. But I learned a heck of a lot, some even useful and I met lots of you jokers. So there’s some good which came with the ‘bad’. I still have the pair of Honda Goldwing airshocks I’ve not installed on the 2002 GEM. I might still give it a go to try and help with the rear end bounce/rattle/banging when there’s a 1/2" or more shifted seam in the concrete streets around here. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.electricforum.com/t/new-to-gem-bought-2002-e825-for-hilly-area/22061)._