Hyundai Ioniq 5

Defo agree about the headlights. Had them checked, I was concerned they couldn’t be so bad. The brightness of dash screens don’t help, but I had great lights on my previous car and it’s the thing i would be most disappointed about on this

Nope, the EV6 has matrix LED headlights.

In my limited experience so far, the only time that the car will automatically adjust its speed to obey road signs is when you are using navigation. When I have a route programmed in and cruise control enabled, the car will automatically adjust its speed to the current limit. This seems to be picked up from the navigation mapping most of the time, but if a temporary speed sign is detected, the car will recognise that and slow down, returning to the original speed once it spots a de-restriction sign.

I also found this note on another forum:

"To set the speed limiter to manual mode you press and hold the cruise control on the right of the steering wheel. If you then set the speed limit when you pass a speed limit sign the car reads the sign a little arrow flashes in the display for a short period while it is flashing if you tap the steering wheel up/down adjust, it sets it to the speed to the speed of sign it has just recognised. If you leave it too long after the arrow starts flashing then it doesn't. Not ideal but better than nothing. It does mean however that when it reads signs from side roads which don't apply to the road you are driving on you can ignore it.

But it does mean you have to notice the arrow flashing and respond quickly. The car I test drove didn't have a Head up display so don't know whether it would appear on there as well but if it did that wouldn't be so bad."

I haven't tried this one yet, but it sounds a bit tricky.

Had an interesting few days dealing with the software and firmware on my Premium Plus.

On delivery the Software was dated 23 August 2021 (210823) and the firmware 28 July 2021 (210728) Having got round to looking at it I contacted the dealer to be told that they had not been advised of any firmware updates and that software updates were down to me.

I bought a new 128GB memory stick and downloaded the updating software to one of my computers' hard disk which took a few seconds. I then started to download the updates on an internet connection of around 55mbps. The download indicated it would take more than 30 minutes. After 40 minutes it was complete. It took another 40 minutes to download to the memory stick.

I then took the memory stick to the car and started to download the updates into the system. The initial indication was for a time of 42 minutes. This came and went and, after 2 hours, the system started to validate the download which took a few moments.

The software now shows a date of February 11 2022 (220211) and the firmware a date of January 27 2022 (220127). The page now shows a line for over the air updates which are supposedly coming sometime in March.

The whole update system seems antedeluvian and clunky.

I will be telling the dealer about the firmware update. It seems to me that, given the range of vehicles they have to sell and deal with, the fact that in the next 18 months at least two more models will add to the range of EVs - and the service manager's remarks about they are learning as they go - Hyundai should have set up a small team in every dealership dedicated to EVs.

That dealer would'nt fill me with confidence-are they not being trained at all?

Lights are great on mine but maybe cause I didn't have Led in my old car. Why don't you dim the dash screens? Have mine set to go black background instead of white when it goes dark out.

Interested to know why most people quote consumption in kWh per 100 kms when the car can be set up to show kms per kWh

You can set it up to show either unit but kWh/100km seems to be the unit used on this forum.

Just wondering if anyone has fitted a towbar to the Executive Plus 58 kW model?

Was the towbar installed by the dealer? Is it retractable/removable? Will just be using it to carry a couple of bikes - maximum 40kg.

Thanks.

Apologies if this has come up a lot before. But, is anyone aware whether the premium has memory for the driver seat. Thanks.

Does anybody know if all these cars come direct to Ireland from Korea or are they also shipped in from EU/UK ports?

I had about 450KM range at 100% before a trip to Mayo (first long/motorway trip). When I got back, and charged it to 100%, the range was down near to 400KM, even though it was a warmer day! Does the car take into account your usage on previous trips when calculating the range?

Only if the ship fro Korea cannot dock at Dublin or Cork due to either weather or congestion.

The shipping operation is complex. The ships used are massive and can take up to 8000 cars. They regularly run with between 4000 and 6000 and make many stops per trip. The logistics of positioning the vehicles for extraction at each stop so there are no errors in delivery is both an art and a science.

Ireland tends to be at the end of a run so if the ports here are blocked it is easy to take the cars off in the UK or, in extremis, in Rotterdam and load them onto a smaller ship. This is costly and the decision is made depending on which is more cost effective - to delay the big ship’s return to Korea or to off load to a smaller ship.

Decided to go with the Ionic 5 for use as a taxi, agreed a price with the salesman, he went off to check something and when he came back informed me that Hyundai will give zero warranty if car is being used as a taxi. I found this hard to believe but it is in their terms & conditions on the Hyundai website. I'm really disappointed as we are very happy with our family Tucson so had no hesitation buying from Hyundai.

Checked with VW and they will give full warranty with the ID4, same as private.