In Ireland, the Inster starts at only €18,995 for the 42kwh car. €21,995 for the 49kwh. Post brexit living has become shockingly expensive in the UK.

IThis is not really a gorund-up EV design. I'd stump up the extra for an EV3 if I were you, especially the bigger battery model, you can vist relatives and come back home without having to use a public charger.

Hi,is this CarPlay adapter still good or it has a newer version model upgraded one? For Kia ev6 earth 2023 model car thanks.

Thanks Brian. Did this summer's recall but my ICCU failed this week....not able to AC charge but OK on DC so far. New ICCU on order. What a pain! Interestingly, there were no warnings at all. The problem came to light when the house and Wallbox circuit breakers tripped.

Thank you as always for your videos and info, very informative. I have a 2022 Ioniq 5 SEL RWD Big 77.4 kWh battery and 303 miles per charge per EPA. Mine was manufactured in November 2021 and I believe I was one of the first 500 owners in the United States of America. I am retired and I have lots of patience and I believe 100% in no tailpipe emissions. I have had three long bouts of service in the almost 3 years and 71,000 miles that I’ve driven. Each time I got a loaner car and one time I got an EV loaner car, all for free. I never had to get my car towed to the dealership for the service stints, I have always been able to drive to the dealership. In the service dept for three weeks the first time because I had a phantom 12v battery drain……. obviously ICCU related. I changed my password on MyHyundai Bluelink app, and the car was fine, magically. By the way, I have had all software updates and recalls and TSB’s done in a timely manner. The second time my 12 V battery died and the car was in for two weeks and I basically out of pity paid them US$275 for a new shitty Hyundai 12 V battery….. I know I know I know, but I did feel bad for them because there’s absolutely no maintenance on my car and there’s no way for service to make any money on me…… they are a good dealer who cares about their customers and that’s important to me. My second 12 V battery was free so I’ve had three 12 V batteries in less than three years and 71,000 miles. Talk about unprecedented, I swear I may go through a 12 V battery in my 20 or 25 other cars in the past every four years every five years……. I honestly don’t recall ever having to worry about a 12 V battery. Hyundai has changed all that for me, unhappy face. I just got my car back from my third stint in the service department and this one lasted a week and two days. They gave me a new ICCU. Finally. They say my third 12 V battery is fine but I think it’s going to shit the bed very soon and I will just buy the correct 12 V battery and call it a day. My latest stink at the service department was because my car stopped AC charging completely, level one or level two. In fact, my car’s ICCU broke, busted, zapped my level two juice box 40 in the garage and tripped the 50 amp breaker in my main service panel. Now I have no level two charger because the charger is lighting up in different colors and beeping five times which means something about the firmware but as we all know,ENELX has left North America and left me in the lurch, and there’s no technical support whatsoever and there’s no emailing them. I have now opened up a customer service case with Hyundai to kindly ask them to replace my level two charger and to pay me for the DC fast charging that I had to do because I couldn’t do level two or level one charging in my garage due to the ICCU failure. Oh my!!!!! I drove the car to the casino last night and it seems to be perfectly fine and normal and all good. I did a little bit of DC fast charging last night and it went brilliantly and I have been charging in the garage at level one all night and that seems to be going spectacularly; albeit slowly. The bottom line continues to be the same for this car, it is the best car I ever drove or bought, and it is saving me a ton of money in fuel and maintenance. The HDAII IS THE MOST STRESS-FREE AND PLEASANT WAY TO DRIVE AND BEING IN THE CABIN OF THIS HOT HATCH IS WONDERFUL. Owning a brand new e-GMP vehicle is not for the faint of heart, just like buying a model T wasn’t. I remain committed to stopping the burning of fossil fuels.

The 42kw battery insta is €20,000 including delivery in Ireland, seems a big price difference to uk

Thanks Brian

My EV6 ICCU was replaced in the summer (I had the warning message and the car was off the road for 5 weeks waiting for the part). On return the car is fine, but AC charging at home trips the circuit breaker (between the charger and the consumer unit) after charging anything up to about an hour. However if I restrict the charger to 20 amps (and not 30 amps), it charges ok. The car has been back and they can find nothing wrong. Now waiting for my charger to be checked. It would be quite a coincidence that the charger develops fault at exactly the same time as the ICCU was replaced!

Front looks like a bug-eyed guppy.

The recalls have served to try and prevent the most dangerous issues related to iccu failure (line complete brake failure when the brake booster on 12v fails) not actually prevent failures.

Thanks for the update, Brian. Very helpful.

Just been in and had 12v battery replaced, not holding charge and not covered under warranty as the car is nearly 3 years old, is this related to ICCU? Would expect a 12v battery to last longer than 3 years! Also had a service which included SOS battery replacement and the dealership managed to damage a connection, so some of the ambient lightning is not working, part has to come from Korea!

Yes I know we’re early adopters, but I’m so effing fed up with visiting the dealer for recalls, updates, new ICCU unit, new battery and so on.

ICCU is boring 🤣

When will they FINALLY learn that updates like this should be done OTA or OT-USB? What a hassle and what a waste of money paying the dealerships.

Well specked for the price but a tad small.

The big party trick is you can easily fit two tall people 6ft+ one in the front and one directly behind if you move the rear seats back. Which for me is a good selling point, plus the way the seats fold flat including the front passenger to give you a large load space.

Renault 5 looks like a nice car

Hello, can you give information about what is the 2024 1.5 Kia Ceed elegance package engineering mode code? Please help.

I wouldn’t buy this car. Not impressed with it. The front is ugly. I know we get different cars in Canada so I hope ours are better looking.

'23 Kia Niro EV TPMS resolved by pumping the offending tyre to 45 psi and driving for 2 miles. Thank you. Who'd have thought all these hours of youtube would be so useful.

The Kia EV2 could be a good option

Hi Brian if your going to have your grandchild and need to take him/ her out in the car the inster boot is no good. You will probably struggle wilt the Zoe boot at first. Only when they get to about 6 months plus can you get a small folding pushchair. And not the all singing and dancing pram that my daughter wonted. That filled my EV 6 boot.

Thank you for posting

I would buy a second hand spec'ed up Kia Niro instead

I need to change the email account in my Kia Connect. Do I just delete the old app and reinstall or will I lose everything?

A stud extractor kit would have been easier to remove the broken wheel stud, rather than taking off the hub, or a drill bit and drill the centre out and hammer in a allen key and screw it out. as a safety note never rely on a jack to hold up the car, use a axle stand or even the wheel put under it.

Traction control uses the abs to stop wheels from losing traction and move traction to the other wheel. Torque vectoring actually changes the torque to the wheels on an axle and should be a lot more refined than TCS

Brian, do you ever think we will get Android Auto without a wire or buying a box on original EV6 ?

Got our Matt blue ev9 gtls 6 seater last week to go along with our blue ev6 gtls. Gotta say our driveway looks frigging beautiful. 😊 Got the ev9 booked in for next thursday for the brake recall. I was informed of it last thursay when i popped into my local dealership.

Agree about the switches-i usually feel for them whilst keeping eyes on the road

The new Android Connect app now shows not only the charging speed in kWh but also the total amount of charge added to the car at the point of refreshing the screen. This is useful in my case as I have a very long cable run from the house to the charger and so losses are greater. Also shows time to completion. This is in the Kia Niro EV.

I now have my EV3. Sadly, I can confirm, UK EV3's do not have reclining rear seats. So there is a gap between the seats and the load cover. However, it is impossible to see into the gap from the outside. So it's no big deal, for me at least. Also, I can confirm, the Sunset Orange colour looks nothing like the brown colour on the configurator. It's way more orange. There is a Korean video that shows the proper colour kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6uplGl3eax5obc

Some other tips; pump up tyres to full load pressure recommend in the handbook. Drive at 65mph on motorway not 70.

Hello, do you have some advice how to force daylight saving clock change. Mine is still on the summer time...

Why should I pay Kia £80 for updates?

The connector looks like a happy crackhead.

For my sins my daily work drive is a company supplied Ford Transit. I had exactly the same faults on that. Mine turned out to be squirrels eating the ABS cable on the rear beam. Amazing you get exactly the same warnings, No Hill start, No ABS etc..

13:50 You saved 129.13 AND got a new battery 😀

Excellent example Brian of how we place our trust in a garage when repairs are needed, but they don't always repay that trust by carrying out a quality repair. This should be compulsory viewing for everyone in the car repair trade. Well done 😊

Have you had any problems with the drain around the driver side windscreen wiper I have clean mine after water filled the tray in front of the window full of mud

I wish I was in Europe to try the EV3! Thanks for the quick update video 😊