Kia EV6

Faster charging as the battery will be at optimal temp, which is critical to getting max charge rate.

Just the standard house settings. I've found it very good, definitely not terrible. Not sure if it's the same system on the Ioniq.

Washed the car for the first time yesterday. Discovered something concerning in the front headlights... Cracks!

I've had no collision of any kind, no evidence of collision while parked. And aside from that, the main reason I'm not too suspicious of it being an impact "injury" is because it's in BOTH headlights! (left worse than right)

Anyone experience anything like this? Have a quick check of your lights to make sure maybe?

Will contact dealership tomorrow but wanted to know if there's a trend?

Edit: should add that I didn't use a pressure hose of any kind, just regular hose.

@kuang1 The second picture looks like there is an uneven gap between headlamp & bumper, but could be just reflection playing tricks.

If there is a gap there, perhaps they are not fitted correctly and maybe closing the bonnet could have caused it?

Only mention that as it’s the only other reason I can think of that could cause damage like that on both lamps when no other impact happened.

Good luck with the dealer & I really hope they sort it for you.

Thanks for the reply...

Funny thing is I haven't opened the bonnet once yet since I brought the car home 7 weeks ago!

Am waiting to get the opinion of a crash repair guy on the phone in case he's seen anything like this before or might think of a cause that I haven't.

Will then contact dealership and see what kind of a response I get.

Doing a fiddle

Was maybe interested in one,might wait for ioniq 6.just getting too expensive!

Doing a fiddle

I'd say that's it. Sneaky. I must see what another dealer is quoting.

Dublin KIA dealership quoted me €56,100. Clearly they're applying charges after the grant. SEAI state these costs should be included.

>The full price of the vehicle to the customer includes all optional extras, paint and delivery but excludes any incentives such as grants or rebates.

Obviously they want to keep the EV6 within SEAI levels to appeal to the likes of myself, but the attitude about it from both dealers was it's standard practice.

Price increase definitely on the way, confirmed at dealers conference last Friday but scale of increase likely to be circulated this week.

Possibility of a slightly stripped out GT-Line coming also to get in just under the grant but no mention of what they’re going to remove from current GT-Line specification.

No cars to be registered until January as sales quotas full etc. as per recent reports of Ioniq 5’s.

Ioniq 6 unlikely to be any cheaper given their linkage to Kia.

Oh they have that in the UK where the S was an upgrade on the line, but our specs never matched even for the same names.

So I went today to get the update for the battery pre-conditioning (when navigating to a HPC).

The dealer insists the update was applied (and showed me a printout of some software number changing) but alas it didn't work. The Software/firmware values that I can access haven't changed, there was no "red coil" symbol on the battery on the dash screen to indicate battery heating (when navigating to a HPC) and the "battery care" energy usage was still zero after navigating & driving for 25 mins to an Ionity HPC.

Changing started at 72kW (26% SoC) and jumped to 112kW a few minutes later (and stayed at that until I left at 40% SoC). Those are the same numbers I was seeing last week (and last February).

KIA customer support (email) now tell me 3 updates are needed (but can't tell me the software numbers). I should just wait until someone else figures it out and it's common knowledge among KIA dealers.

My numbers are accurate. These speeds are by no means poor, but the car can do better with a suitably warm battery pack (I've seen over 200kW but that was about 15 mins into a charging session that started with less than 10% SoC, i.e. when the battery got up to temperature)

Edit: sideways images

Thanks for that, very useful information in that article (that information should ideally be included within the UI in the car or passed on by the dealer, I try to stay on top of information available so if I didn't know this then the average Joe won't either).

I'll try again as soon as I can, the dream is to be able to pull in to charge for 5 mins and add 100km of range to make it home without the kids waking.