Hyundai Ioniq 5

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Collecting my own executive on Monday. Looking forward to it..they've tried to sell me their brand of paint protection 3 times now.Obviously a serious mark up on it for them. Going to get rear windows tinted the following day.

That's interesting, they are the only company that got back to me. They did a great job installing it. I'm lucky that the meter is around the corner from where I wanted to charger. They drilled a hole from the box to the fuse board, so there are no visible cables. And the switch is also around the corner, so overall from the front, it looks really neat.

That said, they didn't configure it properly. They installed the clamp to monitor overall house consumption, but didn't set it up. I didn't go back to them and ask, I contacted Andersen as I thought there was a bug in the app. They setup the clamp remotely in minutes. Overall quite happy.

The app is alright too. It's definitely not perfect, but does a nice job at scheduling the times the car should charge (2am-5am on the EV rate @ 4.54 cents for me). I plugged it in last night around 10pm. It worked perfectly - started charging at 2am and by 5am it had charged 19.7 kWh, so about 6.6 kW per hour. Total cost about 1 Euro :-)

Nice job. As I said it may be a distance thing although they do say nation wide. Is your A2 unit connected to your fuse board or meter box. I am installing next to the meter box but understand the cable will come from the fuse board?

Interesting.

I just followed up with the dealer and he's saying there's still no word about SEAI grant approvals. Apparently there's an issue which no-one else seems to be having.

Almost about to start ringing around other dealers!

Ridiculous...sounds like a mess up on.thr dealers part. Has he given you a timeframe of how long it will take to resolve..days or weeks even

Nope.

Gone for a classic "it's out of our hands, I'll let you know when we know"

They're saying it's an issue with the system but it can't be the overall system because other people are getting their cars.

They've had this car since 19th December as well

Sorry for obvious question. Can’t seem to find confirmation but presume the car comes with a 3 pin charger too?

So it's no used if we go PCP?

Is this gap insurance via Hyundai or separate?

Very frustrating.. they know the car is in short supply so they'll sell it regardless if you pull out or not. Surely they can tell you the precise "problem". Is it that they never applied for the grant until now I wonder

Yeah exactly - I don't really have a leg to stand on, just have to wait it out. Unless I stump up a bit more money for a Mach-E! But think I'll just wait...

More frustrated that there's no time frame

I’ve been reading this forum for a few months and it’s been very helpful,especially having prior knowledge about the missing spec on the executive plus which is what we bought so I thought I’d contribute as we’ve had the car now a couple of days so a few initial thoughts.

99% happy with the car but just a few small first world complaints and 1 huge one.

We went for white as we thought the black trim looked great with it.58kw

Car looks great and have had loads of compliments and rubber necking in traffic which,let’s be honest,is what you want with a new car.A lot of people saying it looks really futuristic.

You do get both types of chargers.If using the granny charger you’ll need to press and hold the button on it until the number starts flashing and then change it from 6 up to 10 to get the maximum speed charging on it.

I can confirm that the executive plus seats look awful in any photographs but do genuinely look good in the flesh.They do sound and feel a little foamy but having had leather seats in my last 2 cars I actually find these very comfy.The headrest and arm rest is leather and the chair seems to form well around me.The heated seats are almost too good!

The car itself seems a lot noisier then my Nissan Leaf,not just because it has larger tyres,but the electric motor noise is more obvious.Maybe that can be lowered.

I was disappointed that the car doesn’t have wireless Apple CarPlay.This is now gonna be Hyundais flagship electric car and other cheaper cars in the Hyundai range have it so it baffles me why this car of the future doesn’t have it.Especially as it has a wireless charging pad in the console which I’ll now never be able to use as I have to plug my phone into a usb socket to get the Apple CarPlay or android auto.I’d prefer to have no wires cluttering up the car.

The car has 5 USB ports but the CarPlay only works with the centre one beside the cigarette lighter so you can’t even hide the cable out of the way…Hopefully they can fix this with an update.

The assisted driving is crazy,on the motorway when taking a slip road or a long bend it will literally drive the car for you to the point where you could take your hands off the wheel! Yes I was crazy enough to try this and a warning message comes up to tell you to put your hands back on the wheel!

Overall I found all the driving aids too annoying,it’s like someone constantly nudging you,and the steering wheel constantly resisting your own movements.It could be handy for long drives but I prefer the old fashioned way of keeping alert with my eyes open and driving the car myself so I switched them all off.

The biggest issue I have is the lack of a rear wiper!…This sales pitch about the air clearing the window is pure nonsense.It’s been a rainy couple of days and I could barely see a thing out the back ,especially on the motorway,it makes it very irritating to drive as it has to be driven like a van when it’s wet.It does look great and streamlined without a wiper but surely they could make a body coloured flat wiper that would also blend into the car.

As I said at the start I’m 99% happy with the car other then the small first world problem stuff and the lack of a rear wiper.It looks amazing,it drives well,has amazing acceleration,the software is good,all buttons,dials doors feel solid,the seats are comfy,loads of space.It is a great car…..but I’ll bet you €100 the next one has a rear wiper.

**Update,I had great intentions of using the “frunk” to store my cables as I get use out of both of them but after a day I gave up.It’s just too much hassle to open the car door,pull the bonnet handle and then fumble with the bonnet release.Much easier to just stick them in the spot under the flap in the boot.

To get the best use out of the “frunk” it would have to be one button opening like the boot.

The original Ioniq doesn't have a rear wiper either, I never thought of it as much of an issue until the reversing camera gets dirty.

So do you just have the rear view camera on all the time taking over your infotainment screen?