BYD Seal

Lanes? That's cute.

Not round here for the most part. The roads today were the same, unmarked with unsealed edges. It pushes you out from the ditch which is really undesirable.

by the way, in 1.1 update you can also use the NFC patch on your center armrest to set up your phone or smart watch to unlock and start the car instead of the card they give you.

Based on a video on youtube, it looks like it

Same here I am presuming you have to wait for dealer to give details to Byd then dealer will email you when that is done anybody else who the app up and running any advice

Unfortunately it's becoming apparent that BYD South Dublin(Maybe other dealers too?) have taken more orders than cars delivered in the first shipment. I see on FB people reporting they are going to have to wait for 2nd shipment in March/April(even that's not guaranteed) despite putting deposit down in early Nov and being promised ready for collection early Jan. I've spoken to our dealer a few times in the last couple of weeks, keeps promising me spec we ordered is due into them any day now but we may have to go for a light interior instead of the dark we ordered. Seems like most orders were for dark interiors but the shipment was roughly 50/50 light and dark.

I'm starting to stress if this is how badly they're handling ordering/deliveries then how will post sales service will go

I was never given any guarantee that my spec would arrive when they hoped.

They knew they had a batch arriving in Cork and I chose a first and second preference combo when I paid my deposit. I got lucky that one of them came in.

I think at this early stage it's not reasonable to compare them to the well oiled order/build/delivery machine of the established Euro brands. Have they more orders than allocated deliveries, almost certainly, but that will settle over time.

No guarantees on collection date were given to us either which is fine but it was never mentioned that we might not get our preferred spec in January. In fact we were told we ordered quite early so we have our pick of interior/exterior colours and awd/rwd and can expect to collect in early/mid Jan. Something has clearly gone wrong with the logistics and they made promises they can't now keep.

I'm only speculating but I think either they didn't have a list of what cars were going to be delivered in the shipment but took orders anyway or they did have a list but don't have any centralised ordering system between the dealers so they could say to a customer 'sorry that spec is sold out in the first shipment so you can either wait or pick something else'. Altogether a very poor customer experience for such a big purchase

There she blows!

Yeah the Han was what I'd ideally like, probably out of my price range though in fairness.

When I picked mine up on Saturday, the sales guy said that they are getting random cars and matching them to orders at the moment, so I was lucky that I was the first on the list with AWD, Atlantis grey and blue interior. He said that's just because it the first lot of orders, going forward they be getting shipments to match orders.

that is the price at all 5 BYD garages in the country, there is no haggling and no price differences.

Saw my first one on the road yesterday evening - black one on the quays in Cork. Looked great!

On the efficiency, I was in Dublin for work the last two days and it's about 75km each way. I charged on Wednesday night and when I got home it had about 10% battery left when I got home today, so 300km from used 90%. That was mostly motorway and there was traffic soit wasn't a consistent speed, I preheated the car for about 10 mins each way and had the air con on most of the time too.

I wouldn't normally be doing those distances so I won't be preheating it unless it's icy normally, just turned it on using the key while I was getting ready to leave and took about 10mins for me to get myself sorted. I'm not particularly worried about the efficiency myself, just said I'd put it up as someone asked the other day.