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If you are going for a tv, look at the manufacturers who offer a 5 year guarantee straight out if the box.
There is a reason tv.s are ridiculously cheap.
I cant remember the manufacturers, samsung and lg?? Maybe?
Mark,
did you get an Ioniq5? What you described is what my Ioniq5 does.
There is a group of ESB chargers next to a Costa. At 20% I would plug it in and go to Costa and by the time I had bought my coffee and sat down and had a sip, the car was charged to 90%.
It all depends on what chargers you use. The Tesla chargers i can only get 120Kw max, it usually sits at 100kw. But some chargers are very rapid. Expensive but rapid.
Yes the Lead is a different car now. They had small batteries with appalling range, but the new ones being built are getting competative.
Using parking mode will drain the 12v battery. Apart from maybe plugging a battery charger one night per week to keep it topped up, the inly other option is to run the dashcams from a seperate powerbank and charge that up when requited.
Parking mode wiuld be good, but its a power drain you could do without.
Or just dont switch on parking mode? Realistically do you live in an area where you need that to happen?
I dont care, its not my car….lol.
Why do you need a heated windscreen in a EV, that you can preheat, which technically does the same thing?
Thermal shock.
The heating element brings the temp of the glass up evenly.
Throwing hot air on a frozen screen can crack it. Much the same way people clear the frost and ice on a windscreen by throwing a kettle of hot water on it
It does happen, not very often, an av seen it.
You can put in a Factory Motability order BEFORE your lease window opens. If the vehicle is removed before your window opens, motability will accept and add the vehicle to your lease. It used to happen a couple of years ago as some cars were on a 13 month waiting list post covid.
But you need the motability salesman to be on your side.
It should not be like this, but choosing a motability vehicle should NOT be a lottery.
Wondering if your chosen vehicle is gonna be there when your window opens.
Moral if the story do not ask a farmer if they can help you with AI, you may be in for a surprise indeedy ..
Yes it was Eurocar, and not Enterprise, I knew it began with an “E”…lol. but the dealer had to keep the car for a few days to check for a battery drain, and awaiting a part. It seems I was lucky and got a car quickly and it was delivered. Sometimes its down to fortune and timing.
It really is just speculation and not worthy of consideration.
If it happens, it happens there is nothing you can do about it, but until then dont even read the nonsense.
If the garage needs more than 3 days to diagnose your car, then you get a hire car through RAC. Maybe if you book it in on a friday, its in for essentially 3 days??
That is what I done dropped the car off, phoned motability, they areanged a taxi to get me home and a hire car was delivered to my house next day. I think it was Enterprise, but not sure.
It worked for me, maybe others have done that as well, if you want to chip in?
I had the hire car for 2 weeks.
ChatGpt is my go to, but like everything else ..Garbage In .Garbage Out.
You have to frame your questions logically and with purpose.
If used correctly, you do get a decent answer.
If you “Google” something you get a skewed answer pushing you into their paying customers and companies.
It will be a local to you sub that does the work, but I hope it all goes smoothly, a standard installation would be nice and hope it works out for ya. Do what ya can with the pix, but get them to send out an estimator.
Muke, you just drive an EV car the same as you would your petrol car.
There is no range anxiety unless you let it bother you.
You only need to be a tad more organised. I get around it by planning my route using Tesla chargepoints. Its easy once you done it a couple of times.
For all your dancing and steps around HMRC, you should lookup what they can do now.
They have an AI that scrutinises your bank accounts, what you buy and social media posts like this one.
What used to happen 10 or 15 years ago is immaterial. It is crazy how they monitor every transaction.
I cant remember the name if the AI they use, but is extremely efficient.
Good luck.
Not all sleek hidden door handles are dangerous electrically operated.
Hyundai’s Ioniq 5 are mechanical opening. True higher specs electronically pop out, but the final opening is entirely mechanical.
You can feel the linkage engaging when opening.
I currently have a Nissan Qashqai E-Power, it’s a good size car, very economical, and it drives like a electric car. I would like an electric vehicle, I have off street parking, live in a detached property which is about 50 years old but my electricity is on a looped supply to my next door neighbours property. This would mean a new electrical supply, meaning my driveway getting dug up, so it’s not for me. I would check your new property is suitable for a wall charger.
Not true. My property was de-looped, and they did not dig up the drive.
Nowadays they dig a hole in the pavement and a hole at rhe outside wall and “mole” the cable from one excavation to the other, the driveway was not touched.
Possibly some people may be better off paying the penalty to end their lease early to order the next car at the old prices before they rise later in the year? Especially for a car with a high AP!
You are assuming the prices are going to rise?
They AP rises and falls every quarter. Even if Motability lose their vat free status does not mean they will pass it on to the customer.
There is no crystal ball for future AP,s if there was one, I would buy it and use it on the lottery, never mind Motability AP,s
There is another scenario where a lot of people cancel early, take the hit, and motability refuses their next lease. If the scheme is going to lose money because of these shenanigans, you bet they will put in a 12 month ban before you can reapply for the scheme.
Quite an ill thought out idea.
If you are slowing down at all, the brake lights come on during regen.
Just like a brake pedal, as soon as it moves, the brake light switch activates when the pedal is pressed.
You leave your old car at the garage you pickup your new car.
When you go to pick up your new car, they will inspect the old car for Good Condition Bonus, and you must bring the 2 sets of keys.
Its better to delete any data on your old car before dropping it off, essentially go into the dash menu and reset it. The garage where you pickup your new car, ask them to do that for you if you are not sure.
Check your new car is the one you ordered and enter your PIN , and away you go.
It doesnt really matter.
The AP is an arbitrary number, and that number changes every quarter.
You will lease what you can afford.
had to go out for annual blood tests and its 20m to the car roughly and i was in bits by the time i got there. definateley want heated seats in the next one lol.
That perhaps one of the best things about an EV, you never have to walk into a cold car again. Heating is on, along with heated steering wheel. No scraping ice or snow. Turn on heating 10 mins before you go out.
Given the cost of road tax on a new car is very high, I am not surprised.
The cost of road tax if I renewed my current Ioniq 5 would be £1250 over the 3 years.
I wouldn’t phone her I’d ask her over dinner at the harvester ❤️❤️👍
Yes we know what you would be doing Mike, a bottle of Baileys an you are unstoppable!
Well, that would do the scheme a lot of good press, Motability giving a 77 year old a car with excessive horsepower and dodgy eyesight and reactions.
Am sure that would float well with the Daily Mail.
We all had brilliant and exotic cars when we were younger, they were death traps, but at that age you were oblivious to the dangers.
Its getting to the stage now, where over 70’s will practically have to resit a driving test every 3 years.
As for your perceived treatment, that is from your perspective, if you let them do that to you.
If you are not happy with their service, ask to see the manager.
Its common for the dealership to do a video of the health check and highlight any faults. Likewise kwikfit they have to send pix into motability of tyre tread depth before approving replacement tyres.
It is just motability making them jump through hoops.
If you do not take the car back, its the mechanic and dealership that gets it screwed and not motability.
I would go back, because its the little guy that gets it in the neck, but that is entirely up to you.
