Kia EV6

We've finally picked up hours on Thursday and we're absolutely loving it. It's ridiculous how good it is. The amount of driving and safety assists it has makes it really so much easier to drive.

Colleague in work called into local dealer in Naas and was told if ordering now it would be July 2023 & they were only accepting orders from people in local area.

Earth model only too.

Anyone here driving the Blue EV6 into Ferns this morning? Lovely car and great presence on the road from behind.

I drove up the road behind you in our new Ioniq 5.

Earth Model in Gravity Blue. This was ordered around Christmas and it actually arrived over a month ago, but the dealer was holding it for us as we were closing on a house at the same time.

I hope for those with GT Line orders that the dealers honour the €60k price (before grant), it would be a shame for those to miss out on essentially an €7k increase in cost. Different story of you're a business buyer as the price paid only jumps €2k. GT Lines set to be pretty rare in Ireland, maybe only a few hundred In total.

Did the mat update yesterday, first since getting the car. Solved the pre heat issue. I notice that for heating it's completely different vents.

I'd be really pissed.. copied from EV6 Facebook group.

“ Feeling very annoyed with Kia Ireland today.

We ordered EV6 GT line last November from Kia dealer, negotiated a deal, and paid deposit etc, knowing delivery would be Mar - Jun 22. 

We’ve chased dealer on a regular basis, who couldn’t give us a delivery date, until a phone call today.

The dealer now says he cant supply EV6 GT line in Ireland, as Kia Ireland have decided not to import this model any longer. The reason offered is the cost of production now puts the retail price of €60k, which is over the threshold for irish government subsidy on electric cars. 

My gripe is the dealer, and in turn Kia, made a deal last November, which they are now reneging on! 

Extremely poor form and bad customer service/experience. 👎“

@malfunction99 .

Thanks for sharing. I've had an ongoing issue where the Connect app basically won't open when I am not connected to WiFi. I tried the unit reboot option, tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app but nothing doing. Has anyone else seen this, or is there some 'RTFM' mobile network option I need to enable? Thanks, appreciate the help.

I think he may have a point around how kia have treated customers in Ireland as they have not pulled the GT line from the UK (still on kia.co.uk site but removed from kia.ie) - that said, lead times are going to be the same for the UK customers - i.e. 2023

Need some help from tech geeks! I have recently upgraded mobile phone to Samsung Ultra 21 and my KIA Konnect app stopped working on mobile network. Works perfectly fine on wifi. All other aps including internet etc work fine on mobile network, just KIA App stopped responding, error message Im getting is "Network error. Please try again later. Please contact your service partner if problem persists."

I have been on to KIA with this issue, all they could advise was to reset infotainment console with pin hole reset button. That did not resolve the issue. I have been onto mobile network provider, they suggested to apply for new sim card. Sim card replaced, still no luck. Access point settings on mobile are correct as all other network applications working fine. Could it be related to some firewall issues? Any one knows?

That was the first thing I tried

Have a look through here if you haven't already?

https://www.kiaevforums.com/forums/kia-ev6-forum.27/

Spoke to the KIA guy at their stand at Bloom last friday and told him that i was looking to order the GT but no longer taking order and what was going on - he said they are looking to re-introduce next year but tweak the trim levels options so that it comes back under the grant.

The reality is that the 60K cap for the SEIA grant is too low with inflation hitting 12.7% in the motor industry. (See yesterday's article on RTE titled "Price shock: Why car prices are being driven higher")

Therefore the government needs to adjust it accordingly and make it closer to 70K, which will still achieve its goal of not providing the grant to the luxury end of the market. We can but hope.