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This stinks as it’s a similar case to mine only a few weeks ago. The pin is a number not a name or letters so how did it work. How are they getting access to our pins when motability seem so eager for us to keep it secure and private until we are happy.
How long will it be before someone says they do not want the car they are there to collect because it’s wrong colour or trim etc but dealer has already inputted our pin without us knowing.
Ioniq you might need it and you, me, us need to know what we can expect because someday you may get that dreaded phone call and need to get somewhere asap. In my case it’s only a 40 mile trip, but if that family member was further away then I need to know what I can get in miles.
I have a magic number of 220. That’s how much miles I would need if I get referred to a certain cardiac hospital which will probably happen. So that’s a minimum for me. It’s one of the reasons why I’ve tested the 3 EVs I’ve had from 100% to 1%.
Ice is the same but it does take about 6 minutes to fill an ice car whereas an EV you might need a minimum of 30 minutes to get a quick boost.
Yip. Subarachnoid bleed in right communicating posterior artery. 2 vasospasm strokes and 5 Tia’s. As bad as it gets, last rights and waiting on the machine being turned off. Mine was coiled and they went up through the groin into the brain. I am cured just like yourself it over. I was told that I can start driving as soon as I felt able to, and this was confirmed by DVLA, apart from a weak left lower side I made a full recovery. Basically as long as your bleed has not led to any type of seizure then your good to go.
I done the form recently due to a heart problem and I’ve now to do a driving reassessment. But the brain injury does not concern them as it’s fixed and 11 years later I’m still under the care of the brain injury team.
So in your case it’s over, bleed repaired itself without surgery and I presume a full or almost full recovery was made. Just tell them that. They may go to your neurologist to confirm this and that takes a while, but that’s it.
Joejoe that’s no different from someone needing hand controls. If they need it they have to have it, I’m talking about the majority and saying it’s not as bad as it seems. Wiper is better but don’t let it put you off a car that ticks all boxes except rear wiper.
Side note. The Renault Scenic has the side mirrors where the end curves to give a wider view. That would be handy for someone who struggles to look over their shoulder.
It is a stupid cost cutter. I can reverse a car no problem without a rear wiper. Without sounding condescending if you can’t reverse a car just using wing mirrors then maybe your reversing isn’t as good as you think. Folks I’m not being cheeky saying that. And again different cars different shapes, but the e3008 fairly stayed clean. Also I believe all motability cars have rear parking sensors. Unless that rule has been done away with lately.
The scenic is an unbelievable car, it’s brilliant. I researched the life out of it after the bad e3008 and there are very few faults and the few there are Renault seem to want to try and fix asap unlike their french counterparts. The two main complaints are blank info screen, it takes a few seconds to do a reset to get them working again and Renault have acknowledged it’s a problem, it may have been fixed as i ain’t seen any very recent complaints about it. Another is lumber adjusting itself. I know the problem there, when folk are using the message function and then turning it off it stays in its last position so you have to manually reset it. Then the app, most problems are to do with a certain home charger ohme I believe. Renault have acknowledged it and are working with that company in a fix.
Then you have the Kona which I had the old version, it has to be an upgrade on the old, it should be a cracker. Hyundai EV are probably the biggest EV on the forum from the 5, 6 and Kona. If reliability is a concern with any ev then the amount of Hyundai EV drivers on this forum and the lack of complaints or even grumbles says they are great cars. Mind aps have just jumped which put me of the Kona with spec I wanted.
My second last charge showed 100% = 345 before park run. Last charge after park run 100% = 290 miles so it is adopting.
It was warm and dry on for about 1/4 of the run then it rained so wipers on and heat set at fan 2 20 degrees. I stuck to 65mph except for about 10 miles around the M50 it was around 55. I got 3.1 so would got me 240 all on motorway. Before I charged it had done 182 miles and gom was showing 81 miles left.
I did charge in the back but had stopped calculating as it was a long day. Range is good, but the difference in 65 mph compared to 75mph is astonishing tbh. And it was a very relaxing drive. The seats are great, the most comfortable I’ve been in, as is the car itself.
Now for something I wasn’t expecting which was equally exciting as it was frightening. I had the car sat to activate assist and as I was approaching a round about the car started to slow down as I approached. There was no cars so scenic had nothing to follow. I’ve a clear view so just let it happen, mind my foot was hovering over the pedals and a light grip on the steering wheel so the car could turn itself. A bit nervous but I let it do it’s thing.
It slowed down, turned through the roundabout still slowling, I indicated where I wanted to go, it turned off and then started speeding up again. That was weird. I’m going to try it again soon.
It was the A1 going to M1 so it was the second last roundabout and then the big curved slip road on to the M1. Fascinating stuff if not a bit hairy. I absolutely love this car, best I’ve ever had. Have a intermittent problem with the electric seat not recalling as it slides back and forward on entering and exiting the car. Only happened 4 times. There is a button on the side of the seat. Press it and all seat options appear in main screen, just press recall and it goes back to my setting. 3 seconds to fix.
App had to be deleted 3 times and reinstalled but they appear to be doing a few tweaks including the car picture in the app now being the same colour as my car. It works and has done every command I’ve sent.
I had a full charge yesterday and I’m going to try and just stick to my typical driving to see how the range goes. But if I stick to 65 on motorways then I’d imagine a range of mixed driving giving around 240 in cold and wet weather.
@declan there wouldn’t be much on the market let alone the scheme with a more premium interior than Peugeot. But they pulled a trick IMHO. They used so much cheap fabric but still managed to make it look premium. The Peugeot is all style and very little substance, the scenic has a bit of style and tons of substance. I thought the open cabin would have put me off, it did in the ioniq 5, but the kit sung me and I’ve absolutely no regrets.
I thought I would have missed that tight cockpit feeling out quite the opposite. The big airy cabin is great. The e3008 is so well put together but there are no squeaks or rattles in the scenic either.
Right told the kids I’d take them to a park, one that is 151 miles away. I love being in this car, kids are good at long drives too.
The app didn’t work this morning so couldn’t precondition. Deleted app and reinstalled signed in in all of about 70 seconds and it turns out they made a few cosmetic changes to the app. Now the car in the app is the same colour as my car and its working fine.
It’s the little things that make a great experience even better lol.
@fadetogrey you’re going from a great car to an absolutely outstanding car.
And that’s that 100% to 1%. And some strangeness. Left home with 100% = 305 miles.
Interesting that the GOM stated 305 miles, Des, which is probably about 70 miles less than the wltp. Whereas the E3008 always displays the wltp (327 miles and more) after every top up to 100%. That fuels our disappointment when the range plummets but probably shows how dumb the car is. On the contrary, the Scenic looks to have a real world figure already considered, which is great.
Declan the e3008 will always show 326, as you say it ain’t smart enough. The Kona would always adjust my range after a full charge and the scenic does the same.
Ps I ment to say this about something you mentioned a while ago. My partner also has severe anxiety in the car, all cars. It’s a recent thing of about a year and tbh it’s causing a bit of grief between us.
Cheers folks. The car was absolutely faultless in that near 5 hour drive. All driving aids spot in and so comfortable.
@declan something happened when I got to Dublin that made me think of you and your heating issues. The section where I have put **. When I got to Dublin and pulled up at the beach I put my home address in the sat nav and it told me I would need to charge, I refused and after a good few minutes I noticed the car was getting cold, I put my hand over the vent and it was blowing cold air so I turned it off for about 30 minutes and when back on it was warm again.I believe that the car thought I wouldn’t have enough range to get home so has override my settings and turned the heating off. I’m thinking that because it asked me four times to try eco mode because it thought I wouldn’t get home. It is Google software is it is smart lol. Any just a thought incase your car is doing similar. Easy to workout, If you’ve plenty of range does your heat work, if you’re borderline range is it cold?
And that’s that 100% to 1%. And some strangeness.
Left home with 100% = 305 miles. Home to motorway 1mile, motorway to Dublin 101 miles, drive round Dublin 8 miles. Arrived with 48% = 120 miles left. So used 52% and 185 miles. Dry, temp at start 2 deg back at 7 deg. Heat at 21 fan speed 1. Radio on, all on and same way down and back.
So I wasn’t going to get home with this figures. Put home address in satnav and said * i would get home with 2% and would need a charge * . The car must have calculated what I used down and thought I would need a charge. I refused it and sat off.
Arrived home with 8% = 27. Same way home same settings. So 185 miles down and 93 miles back. So that’s strange. When home I head back to the motorway to empty battery. Range disappeared at 8% battery. I turn things off and go to eco mode speed down to55- 60mph and got 13 miles at that speed. Back towards home now at 3% drive around the area for 2 miles AVG speed about 18mph that’s when 1% showed and I took the 1/4 mile home and charged.
Basythe same as the Kona and e3008 12ish miles at reasonable speed and 2-3 at low speeds. No turtle mode, which is strange as both other cars had it so that could lead to a false thinking of there’s more, if it didn’t come on at 1% its not there as the other two would kick in around 3%.
So now I know exactly what I can get, and at those speeds at those distances that good. I’m going to do the same run on Saturday at 65mph.
I done a fair bit of thinking on the way back as it was clear the range wasn’t dropping like going down. I’m now convinced that the Belfast to Dublin road is predominantly up hill, a small gradient but enough to hammer range. Also the way down I know I’d a bit of a tail wind as the wind noise from the mirrors was very noisy going down and on the way back it was road noise that was predominant, so a bit of head wind. Mind it was hard to tell by looking at trees.
Edit. The car has been charging exactly one 2pm-3pm hour and has went from 1 to 9% = 32 miles and will take another 12hrs 13mins to 100%
Edit. Again. 2.8 mipkw whole journey.
Time to empty the battery and see exactly what the range is. Same drive as Kona and e3008. 200 miles motorway at 75 mph, about 10 miles city. Heat 21 fan 2, radio on. It’s frosty 1 degrees, dry with little wind.
Kona done it e3008 couldn’t get back without a charge. Both very similar once range goes to 0. With heating and radio off 12 miles at 60 mph, 4 miles turtle mode. 2 miles speeds up to 50 mph, 2 miles at up to 30. Both gave about 1/2 mile up to about 17 mph then it’s time to charge. Always in winter and both times have been mostly dry.
You might be best just handing the hire car back and getting your pip mobility component money back and hire an EV car yourself with the money until the Aryia is fixed.
<p style=”text-align: left;”>The references to ‘woke’ are a bit irritating. Let’s rewind it back a bit, to a time before the word woke was used as a weapon to beat anyone you us seen as progressive. I have seen the videos of people complaining about the new drink driving laws as well as the introduction of seat belt laws. If the word woke was about then they would have called those bringing in these laws woke.</p>
As someone who has spent a lot of time advocating for disability rights I would be seen as woke. It’s not woke it’s progress. Yes in some cases it has gone to far, but I believe that is more to do with the right and left just being a holes and wanting to irritate each other. Woke people introduced health and safety which stops people dying at work. Woke people introduced equality laws that protected disabled people as well as LGBTQ people whether you like it or not you can’t protect one group of people and ignore others.As for the Jag. Well it’s working, people are talking about them and has anyone even seen a vehicle? No. Most of the cars we drive now would have been a daft concept at one stage only to become a decent practical motors. Where there are companies making big money from branding and marketing they will always be able to convince a company that they need to rebrand. That’s marketing for you. They are good at what they do whether you like it or not.
Me, I prefer the if it ain’t broken don’t fix it. Jaguar is broken and the company are trying to fix it. I think it will work because of the amount of young professionals and media savvy influencers driving range rovers. They want a piece of that market and as a business they will have it even at the expense of a loyal customer base.
Ps switch your bank account for free money, switch your internet/phone providers to save money etc. Stop being loyal to businesses who only see you as a cash cow.
Ele a company sitting on 100s of millions? Fining someone £250 because a my car is rubbish is a bit petty.
Glos guy I was looking at bake book today and two motability customers are returning their cars due to range. Both like mine around 170 miles and I believe Declan may have had enough. I honestly believe that the e3008 is going to change the scheme it’s been that bad.
Even if it had no faults I would not be putting up with a car doing 140-170 miles when manufacturer claims 326.
He entered the pin as he said it was on his computer. I would have needed to go into my phone and open the pin which I didn’t. Id already went through the car and was happy with it, it was also a stock car if that means anything
I just didn’t think about it until I was home.
I’m currently getting 1.7 mipkw so looking at a range of about 120-130 which is shocking.
Good news is I pick the Renault up today and having read the forum this morning one lady was complaining about only getting 235 miles in this cold snap so that is good. Most seem to be in or around 220, and that’s the magic number for me in winter. With 270 in summer. I don’t care if a car claims a range of 500 miles as long as I get 220 and 270 I’ll be happy.
Battery full charge this morning 100% 326 miles. A few runs about the city totaling 12 miles.
Battery now 83% 272 miles left.
AVG speed 8mph 1.7 mipkw.
At those figures I might get about 124 miles from a full charge 😂
Great to hear. It’s a cracking car, just that mine isn’t. And I’ll be honest, I’ve never really been into cars especially how they look, but that Peugeot and TBF all Peugeots are stunning. I’ve been on the FB page mostly just reading and there are plenty of folk who like you are loving the car and have no problems whatsoever.
Have you sussed out it’s quirks yet lol. After the last update ‘ok Peugeot’ has started working a sometimes and when I ask it to turn on drivers heated seat it turns the passenger one on and vice versa. Then the climate buttons under the I toggle. When you turn things on a light comes on to let you know it’s on except for when you turn climate off, that’s when it lights up. A bit back to front tbh. There’s no main switch to turn the interior lights on, they all have to be touched individually, how are you ment to turn the rear interior lights on lol. There’s a few wee other things I can’t remember but it’s french and it’s quirky.
One thing I love mind. I’ve now been in a 3008 and e3008 for about four and a half years and I absolutely love that small steering wheel, every car should have them.
I think what’s happening is that according to the FB page that there is quite a few being terminated. Two definitely on FB although I ain’t looked in quite a while so could be more. I think @declan has spoken with them and is considering a termination. Then the amount of people terminating EVs as it turns out they are just not practical enough for them especially if no home charging.
So I believe that this has led to a strict policy on the £250. As in days gone by they would be reasonable and waive or lower the fee. I think they are taking a hit and don’t like it. They even have there own EV department that deals with EVs and the first question you get asked is it range related.
I will continue, and I will get a refund, because I’m like a dog with a bone when I think someone has tried to stitch me up.
Sent the email off yesterday and just had a call back today to tell me no refund as I’m giving the car back through lose of confidence which requires the £250 fee.
I explained that it’s leaving me in financial hardship which it is this close to Christmas. Tough, and unless Peugeot tells them it can’t be repaired then I’m paying. I explained that it’s your car (motability) which was bought of Hurst and it’s up to you too to sort it out as I’m paying for a car that is rubbish and full of faults which they could not repair in three weeks.
I asked for it to be escalated and they said they will send me out a letter and the bottom of it will explain how to contact the financial ombudsman and that’s all they and I can do.
I really wish I’d enough money to tell them to stick their car up their jaxey. This has really peed me off tbh.
