Tbh I have no idea they just said it’s a new battery and it’s being ordered from Hyundai.
When I purchased the car the battery health check was ok and the 12v battery was replaced at the last service.
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Tbh I have no idea they just said it’s a new battery and it’s being ordered from Hyundai.
When I purchased the car the battery health check was ok and the 12v battery was replaced at the last service.
Surely you would ask? Swapping a 12v battery is a 5 minute job, changing the main battery will be hours, if not days worth of work that they'll need the car?
They are having it for a few days when all the parts come in I will ask then. Tbh it makes no real difference to me. I’m more happy about having new keys and it supposedly not being vulnerable to gameboy theft attacks anymore. Lol
3 years in November the subframe moves slightly and the bolster creaks quite a bit.
I’ve not had any clicking yet save that one for next time.
From my service this year on the invoice I had a couple of service campaigns they completed, one of which was a 12v battery replacement. As it was serviced last year, (not required but I dont pay so why not) I'm guessing it was relatively recent update.
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Bought some roof bars for the Audi Q4 e-tron (45).
Put them on.
Real-world range went from 300 to about 220 (averaged over 800 miles with the bars on - no cargo on top).
Took them back off.
Guess I won't bother with that then
Can't imagine how much worse it'd have been with a box on top.
Put them on.
Real-world range went from 300 to about 220 (averaged over 800 miles with the bars on - no cargo on top).
Took them back off.
Guess I won't bother with that then
Can't imagine how much worse it'd have been with a box on top.
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that is horrific. I guess you only put them on when you need them. my old diesel QQ I put the roof bars on and never took them off, but on a full tank of diesel it only seemed to affect by single digit miles on a full tank
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I mean I assume you are so interested in these cars you'll be buying one? Or are you just going to pretend like you are interested, like with the Puma-E when you said that at £350 you'd be interested yet it has been ~£200 per month and you've still not ordered it?
Who am I kidding... pretty sure it is just to add post count at this point in time.
Stupid me, I don't know how I put £8k, I meant £6k (six). That lower figure is what was edging me towards a Nissan Leaf.
Sorry all who have replied!
Currently have a Mk1 Focus and only do 4-5k miles a year, with the longest (very occasional) journey generally being 30-40 miles round trip. So didn't want to spend much north of £5k really as I won't get much savings in the cost per mile.
That being said, we also have a Karoq as the main family car that does around 12K a year so possibly for shortish trips that doesn't need the space, the EV could take up the slack.
Linked to this, do those of you that have both an EV and ICE car find that you make an effort to do more journeys in the EV due to energy savings?
Don't worry about it.
You could look at the following. Looks to be a decent deal and a great car.
More likely scenario is that you'll get shot of the Karoq and get a BEV to replace that once you get the cheap one first.
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Yeah i think you'd find once you've got a BEV it'd become your default vehicle pretty quickly.
Ours is pretty much an order of magnitude cheaper to go anywhere but the main thing is they're just SO much nicer to drive, a petrol car feels like driving an antique after you've driven an EV so you'd only very grudgingly ever take the ICE vehicle imo.
That Ioniq above would be a cracking car, they're very good.
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Hi all. We collected the GF's Kona 64kwh on Sunday (22 plate bought from Cinch), and she loves it.
I went over it with a fine tooth comb at the Cinch store before we collected it, and it is tip top apart from one thing..
Under the bonnet in the engine (motor) compartment there is a button on the end of what looks like a cable, or a tube, and it's unsecured and flapping about. It looks a bit like a camera shutter release:
It looks like it should be secured to a bracket bolted to the upper cross member, but there's no obvious way that I can see.
Google lens brings up this picture:
So it looks like the button is secured vertically to the bracket, but I don't think that there is enough slack in the cable to rotate it 90 degrees and position it there.
I think the big orange pipes are coolant pipes.
The car had its 40k mile service at Hyundai in May, and I think this does involve a coolant change. So they might have been in there fiddling about and not secured the button thing properly.
Another thing I noticed was that the little cover on top of the 12v battery terminal was open, exposing the battery terminal.
I reckon the 12v battery was low on juice and Cinch plugged a charger to it and neglected to close the lid afterwards.
Maybe the charger pack was sat on the motor cover and fell off, knocking the button thing off it's mount?
Anyway, if someone could tell me what the button thing is and how it is secured, I'd appreciate it
I went over it with a fine tooth comb at the Cinch store before we collected it, and it is tip top apart from one thing..
Under the bonnet in the engine (motor) compartment there is a button on the end of what looks like a cable, or a tube, and it's unsecured and flapping about. It looks a bit like a camera shutter release:
It looks like it should be secured to a bracket bolted to the upper cross member, but there's no obvious way that I can see.
Google lens brings up this picture:
So it looks like the button is secured vertically to the bracket, but I don't think that there is enough slack in the cable to rotate it 90 degrees and position it there.
I think the big orange pipes are coolant pipes.
The car had its 40k mile service at Hyundai in May, and I think this does involve a coolant change. So they might have been in there fiddling about and not secured the button thing properly.
Another thing I noticed was that the little cover on top of the 12v battery terminal was open, exposing the battery terminal.
I reckon the 12v battery was low on juice and Cinch plugged a charger to it and neglected to close the lid afterwards.
Maybe the charger pack was sat on the motor cover and fell off, knocking the button thing off it's mount?
Anyway, if someone could tell me what the button thing is and how it is secured, I'd appreciate it
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Anyway, if someone could tell me what the button thing is and how it is secured, I'd appreciate it
If should just slide on to the retaining clip, if it won't rotate around to face upwards, it looks like the cable could be snagged if there isn't enough slack to rotate it. I'd let Cinch know regardless of if you fix it.
It's the charging cable release in case it doesn't unlock.Hi all. We collected the GF's Kona 64kwh on Sunday (22 plate bought from Cinch), and she loves it.
I went over it with a fine tooth comb at the Cinch store before we collected it, and it is tip top apart from one thing..
Under the bonnet in the engine (motor) compartment there is a button on the end of what looks like a cable, or a tube, and it's unsecured and flapping about. It looks a bit like a camera shutter release:
It looks like it should be secured to a bracket bolted to the upper cross member, but there's no obvious way that I can see.
Google lens brings up this picture:
So it looks like the button is secured vertically to the bracket, but I don't think that there is enough slack in the cable to rotate it 90 degrees and position it there.
I think the big orange pipes are coolant pipes.
The car had its 40k mile service at Hyundai in May, and I think this does involve a coolant change. So they might have been in there fiddling about and not secured the button thing properly.
Another thing I noticed was that the little cover on top of the 12v battery terminal was open, exposing the battery terminal.
I reckon the 12v battery was low on juice and Cinch plugged a charger to it and neglected to close the lid afterwards.
Maybe the charger pack was sat on the motor cover and fell off, knocking the button thing off it's mount?
Anyway, if someone could tell me what the button thing is and how it is secured, I'd appreciate it
The video also shows where it should be located
