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MrRockliffe said:
Finally got the Ioniq 6!


And they’ve been very generous and prepped the car with sandpaper for me :cool:


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I'd be insisting that they pay for your professional detailer to do the job properly if it was me, that is a disgusting state to sell a car in.
 
Nabinium said:
How can you deliver a car in that condition?!

Where have the standards gone? Jesus.
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Slightly off topic but I l picked up a loan car as mine is in the garage. Been about two weeks now. But when they gave me the keys and showed me the car I was like wow. Exactly what you've said. How can you give someone a car like that. The loan car, from a main dealer, has a smashed wing mirror, curbed wheels and hadn't been washed. Inside was disgusting. Water bottles and rubbish in door pockets. And dirty. Not dust, dirt.

Got it home and I've washed and detailed it inside and out. Its like a new car. Well, it is a new car, only 25 reg! My cloths are white and when I did the interior they came out brown. Tyre pressures all wrong, about 5psi down on all corners. At least it had some charge in it!

Gonna make sure I tell them when I drop it back next week.

Where is the pride. I'd be horrified to hand someone a car like that.
 
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We used a supermarket charging point on our new PHEV today, just to try it out! It was more simple than we thought. We didn’t experience any issues.

The charging station had 3 connectors and it looked like the car could accept them all, I think they were different rates of charge capacity. We opted for the middle one and we spent 20 mins in the supermarket which took us from 10 miles to 45 (the car can do 62 miles on a full charge) amd cost us £7.24 and I have no idea if that’s expensive or not.
 
35 miles for £7.24 is 20.5p a mile. at a complete guess I would say that is roughly close to running a petrol car.

if you can run it on home charging from an EV tariff however it would be around 3p per mile.
 
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HoneyBadger said:
We used a supermarket charging point on our new PHEV today, just to try it out! It was more simple than we thought. We didn’t experience any issues.

The charging station had 3 connectors and it looked like the car could accept them all, I think they were different rates of charge capacity. We opted for the middle one and we spent 20 mins in the supermarket which took us from 10 miles to 45 (the car can do 62 miles on a full charge) amd cost us £7.24 and I have no idea if that’s expensive or not.
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My old deisel E class cost (according to my man math fag packet calculations) the equivalent of 50p per kWh to run. My home charging is 8p and public charging can be anything up to 90p depending on speed, location and company.

A home charger will be a worthwhile investment if you can have one and plan to go full EV at some point in the future, or you’re maxing out the battery capacity every day and using the full 62 miles.
 
HoneyBadger said:
Great, thank you. Ordinarily we will charge it at home, we just thought we’d try it out.
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With a 62 mile range I assume that is a PHEV? If so, now you've scratched that itch you can forget all about public charging, it simply isn't worth it.

I stuck my one on a free podpoint in a Tesco carpark once, haven't taken the cable out of the boot floor since.
 
lordrobs said:
With a 62 mile range I assume that is a PHEV? If so, now you've scratched that itch you can forget all about public charging, it simply isn't worth it.

I stuck my one on a free podpoint in a Tesco carpark once, haven't taken the cable out of the boot floor since.
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Yep, it’s a PHEV.

I will need to check with MrsHB regarding our home electric plan, but we’re on it!
 
HoneyBadger said:
Yep, it’s a PHEV.

I will need to check with MrsHB regarding our home electric plan, but we’re on it!
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Even on the price cap it is worth home charging. I have Octopus Go (dumb version not the intelligent plan) and if I know I'll be using the car again that day I'll still charge it at the peak rate as it's cheaper than fuel, plus better for the environment.

I've only got a 10kWh battery so a 3 pin granny will fully charge it with 10 minutes to spare of my 5 hour cheap rate.
 
cuke2u said:
I'd be insisting that they pay for your professional detailer to do the job properly if it was me, that is a disgusting state to sell a car in.
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I sent off an email when I picked it up to the general manager for the dealership, who has been managing the sale after his team kept messing it up.


We’ll see what he says next week - I’ll offer to do some training for his team ;)
 
MrRockliffe said:
Finally got the Ioniq 6!


And they’ve been very generous and prepped the car with sandpaper for me :cool:


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Damn, horrific buffer trails aside that is some unique polishing technique they have :p

I remember working with the world's most Yorkshire Yorkshireman who had a mint Lexus he took huge pride in. One day it arrives covered in buffer trails. A colleague mentioned it in passing and he responded "Aye, that shows it's had a good polish lad." :D
 
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