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I had it on after it tweaked the heatpump so it’ll run if the temp is over 21C. Agile pricing was essentially free last Saturday so on the heating went
If you turn on travel assist it even steers the car too lol
I have the black magic colour it’s lovely
It’s strange I really didn’t notice much difference between a diesel 3008, mg hs PHEV and the Enyaq in terms of braking performance. Those being the most recent cars I’ve driven
Unless it’s different trim levels mines an 85x. I had an emergency stop from 60 to stop due to a moron in front of me and the car stopped and felt perfectly. The car feels like it’s glued to the road like poo on a blanket
Maybe it’s because it’s my second EV now. Brakes certainly feel better than my sons C4 too.
I did find the 60 on the test drive brakes felt a bit meh but I chalked that up to being a loaner but maybe it wasn’t
I haven’t noticed anything wrong with the brakes, they feel OK, progressive not snatchy like citroen. I don’t think I ever really noticed they were any different than “normal” they do work extremely well tho had a couple of emergency stops done
What do you find wrong
I’d forget diesel now it’s too complicated with dpf and adblue plus the AP costs. A good petrol or hybrid will return easily as good economy as diesel now.
Depends on size needed but you can get a 48v hybrid Fiat 600 petrol for £499 well under the £750 new car payment so net cost to you is still nothing. That does nearly 60mpg.
I hope the ceo will make something work for you. This is my experience with grants. The first time they were so dismissive and rude I thought i was speaking to the dwp.
Second attempt years later much better and they actually listened.
I really hope you get a result the grants teams need a good kick up the bum they seem to be a law unto themselves
Yeah it depends on the level of charge as well as temperature.
I got up to 160kw on my test. I’ve only used 75kw chargers recently tho as much cheaper. Don’t know the exact charging curve but you needs to be fairly low to get that really high charge rate.
I never really understood to 9bsession with buying them. I bought an ex motability vehicle from a garage before I was disabled incidentally. That car cost me more to keep on the road than anything else I ever owned after 3 years and only 28k miles.
The alternator bracket sheered and fell off
Suspension failed multiple times
And so on in the end I sent it back to the finance Co and bout a 2003 Mondeo estate 2.5 V6 ghia x for £500 with 146,000 miles best car I ever bought super reliable and parts cheap.
At 3 years old I find it’s just when stuff is starting to need attention motability charge over the top and you get zero warranty. You could buy it for less from a dealer and get a warranty if you could track the car
Yeah we were watching a TV show from 2005 they were hinting a serial killer and it was from 1991 and they said we went thru his computer. Some I’m like well it wouldn’t have taken long.
No Internet Tim berners Lee has only just created it running on NeXT
Fastest computer was a 486 running at 50MHz memory was 1MB of you were hardcore you had 4MB and 170MB hard drive running dead slow.
Windows 3.0 was thing thing running on top of DOS. PowerPoint and Word etc didn’t exist and Word processing was Word Perfect 5.2
Dont forget you can really only have a charger if you have private parking. I had a huge row with BP at one point as they claimed my driveway wasn’t private because I didn’t have a gate, my drive is in my back garden accessible from residents only road but there you go.
If you can’t have a charger there’s always a granny charger and extension lead (rated of course) that’s better than nothing. If you don’t take the charger you do get the BP Pulse 12 month subscription reducing the price of most of their chargers. As I already had a charger I took that this time, haven’t used it yet as I charge at home mostly and otherwise I use Electroverse and try to use Ionity chargers during the 20% off window which makes the rapids down to 63p/kwh which still expensive is nearly half what Instavolt charge.
I would consider your annual mileage, how much of that might be long journeys away from home as those would be on rapids potentially anyway. Then calculate how often you’d need to charge each week. Another option is some places have cheaper 7kw destination chargers if there’s one of those near home you could plug in and leave it there overnight. This is what I do when In Derby the airbnb has 7kw chargers walking distance from the house so I park there overnight and pay a fraction of the rapid rate at under 50p/kwh.
Also it will depend on the car range one with a range of say 150 miles is going to need more care than say an Enyaq with 300 mile range yet often both will charge at similar times due to charge rates on larger batteries.
I would see if a dealer will give you a weekend test drive and find out for yourself Good luck
Sorry to hear all of that but at least you’re mostly OK.
Document everything sounds like this will end up going legal. Every ache, pain, every painkiller. It can take several days for injuries to become obvious. When I was hit from behind I was fine but over the next few days I got more and more pain.
If you’ve hot receipts for everything damaged keep them safe if not get quotes on replacing
I’d never encourage anyone to lie but do ensure you keep in writing every last ache, twinge, headache, thing you can’t do, anything you miss doing.
That’s exactly what happened to me non motability car little old lady straight thru a give way t boned me.
First thing she said was I didn’t see you I was driving a bright red mondeo estate on a lovely clear day and no other traffic. When I told the guys down the local petrol station they said what’s her name so told them, he laughed shouted pi lads to the workshop guys, Oi lads Dorothea has done it again. Then said to me she crashes that car every day. Really needs to be retesting after a certain age
All the best
Petrol or diesel. Internal combustion engine.
When my car was written off I got a hire car a diesel 3008 cost me a fortune in fuel and flipping ad blue grrr. Anyway I was in that for ages after 6 months they said were taking the car back and leaving you with nothing after 6 weeks you’ll get your pip back until your new car arrives.
I complained to the CEO at which point an almost new MG HS was swapped in when was a PHEV so gave me 30 miles electric saved me a fortune until my Enyaq arrived.
You can ask if electric is available as europcar do have EVs now.
Yours will be better than mine as you have someone that caused it so you’re not to blame that’ll help I’m sure.
I would wait and see what you’re offered if not suitable email the ceo and tell them.
Yeah I noticed that when I was looking that’s why I went with 85x Enyaq and it’s brilliant the awd is awesome
Eco mode takes the power down a touch, reduced throttle response and lowers the top speed as I understand it. Oh it also reduces aircon power too. As for difference it makes I’ve tried it a few times but not to measure it.
You also have to turn off auto recuperation. Otherwise the car will adjust the regen for you. If coming up behind another car and you’re off the throttle it’ll decelorate faster, if you lift off with nothing in front the car will more or less coast.
It’s under vehicle and assist systems
Eco assist automatic recuperation
Once off the paddles manually switch regen
B mode is max regen all the time. Auto regen is for D mode as I described above. I noticed you can get a lot more economy in D mode, B mode means using the brakes a lot less and I find it much easier to drive esp on country roads. D on longer journeys on predictable roads gives higher economy in my experience
My old Grand Voyager was costing nearly £200 a month in diesel 3 years ago. The Enyaq is using so little power I don’t even notice it. On sunny days I’ve had the charger locked down to 1.4kw so the car only used solar power and the charged at normal when prices are below 15p. We had £500 in debt as of May it’s now down to £30 without paying anymore. The real test will be charging over the winter.
Yes it’s fast a fook in sport mode got a nice straight C road with no turns here stopped then stomped on the throttle let’s simply say got to 60 by the time I blinked I’m not incriminating myself further lol
They CANNOT claim it’s OK because you’ll always go out with another adult that’s absolutely abhorrent. It’s like saying just ask someone walking by to close it for you.
The list they give you is examples you can spend the grant however you like as long as you don’t add more than 50% again.
I was offered £1000 initially and pointed at an Enyaq 60. I went thru their list and listed every reason why each one was unsuitable.
Combo, Berlingo etc very low ev range
Enyaq 60 no electric seats, heated steering wheel, no adaptive cruise control etc etc
I then countered and suggested the 85x Enyaq as 4wd for a rural area plus electric means I don’t get painful hands, electric boot.
I listed why I needed each item and why. I said if you can raise it to the point where I can add enough myself to pay the AP I’d be set. 24 hours later they agreed. They don’t pay any attention to the new car payment at all.
Don’t be afraid to fight your corner as long as you do so with facts. If you don’t get anywhere and get treated like garbage go to the CEO and complain.
The grants team seems to really be a crap shoot who you get my first attempt the lady would even let me apply she was so rude, 3 years later I tried again and was successful and now have an 85x Enyaq which has a cavernous boot btw
Shame Kia aren’t interested in motability the way their APs are set. As said wait for hyundai version
As long as the car is on the scheme at the point of order that’s all that counts. I doubt they’ve sold the car out, is it a high demand car? I can see that with a shady dealer and say Enyaqs with long waits but there’s no actual proof it happens.
I’d call the dealer tomorrow and ask don’t jump the gun unnecessarily. Could even be the sales guy is on holiday or off sick.
It was showing 148 miles at 48% then something like 310 at 100% it was a 75kw charger, so we could’ve actually done Norfolk to Lincoln to Cleethorpes, out and about then home without charging as satnav said 120 miles home, super impressed as that was without eco driving too.
Yeah I believe the red led flashes on the key to tell you it’s active and eventually if not moved it goes to sleep
Handbrake on and just get out. Detects the seat belt release and pressure switch under ya bum.
I was cleaning the windscreen inside earlier and sent the car into some kind of rage wriggling about lol
As for auto hold you can add it to the shortcut menu so you can toggle it quickly. If you tap the plus in the top right corner you can choose to add auto hold from there and it’ll remember it for future use.
I’m really glad you’re making progress shameful what that first dealer did. There’s something stinky going on there either orders not being placed or something dodgy or incompetent one or the other. I hope you get your car as soon as possible it’s well worth the wait
Chuffed for you. It’s a brilliant car. I’m not really a huge car nut but I really love this car I think it’s probably the first car I’ve fallen for. Second closest was an old 2003 Mondeo estate we bough a few years ago for £500 was a Ghia X with 2.5 litre V6 it was spacious had loads of gadgets (heated vented seats mmmmmm) and went like stink most reliable used car I ever owned too.
Anyway 2000 miles in I’m still loving it and still no issues.
We were visiting family recently and was at a Marston pub in Cleethorpes for tea and charged the car whilst eating. Car actually reached 100% from 48% by time I’d eaten one course. According to Octopus that charge was £28
Interestingly too, I drove from my home in North Norfolk to Lincoln from Lincoln to Cleethorpes, around Cleethorpes on short trips then back home and I could’ve done the whole thing without charging. Total miles without local trips was about 300 miles so regen must’ve been helping as when I charged I had 148 miles left which was more than needed to get home
This is disgusting. Are Motability going to help? This whole thing seems deeply suspicious to me. I would craft a careful complaint being polite and sticking to facts and write to the dealer principle.
It might be worth enquiring with another dealer see if they can locate a stock car that can be delivered to you relatively quickly
