Kia EV6

Have you tried the pre-heating of the cabin yet with the car via the app? Did it work? Any heating issues at all infact?

Father in law has had pick up of his EV6 delayed by three weeks as he is waiting for a part for the heater to be upgraded. I assume it's due to the issue you have mentioned. Part expected in in a few weeks.

One hint my dealer was to use the Lane Following Assist rather than Lane Keep Assist. To activate, press the Lane Driving Assist button for a short rather than a long press, green steering wheel icon should be displayed on dashboard. Car will now keep centered between the two white lines on the road. Works very well.  

Do we get a years subscription to Ionity (to avail of the cheaper per kWh rate) along with our EV6 purchase?

Mine arrived this morning so I'm in the process of setting everything up, for the rare times I'd need to use an Ionity it would still be handy to benefit from 29c/kWH rate compared to the standard 79c/kWh rate.

I haven't found a VIN decoder yet (maybe it's clearly printed in car documentation ... need to check) . No other major issues to report. I had the feeling that tyre pressure was off/too high as I'm getting a bit of vibration at 120 on motorway : found another forum and users reporting the same : apparently goes away after 1000+ miles once the tyres settle in - so will keep an eye on them. I absolutetly love the car and don't regret my purchase. Coming from many Skoda models, I was looking at the Enyaq but wasn't a fan of the looks - the pricing put me off . ID4 was 'meh, not bad' but again not overwelmed. The EV6 is getting some attention and questions at charging stations

Not sure how they look, apparently I'll have them by the end of the week.

Did a charge test at Ionity as I had hit 10% battery and was next to station.

After 2'30, I used 2.7kWh , speed @76kW - battery13%

After 7'49, 9.5kWh, speed @79kW - battery 21%

After 13'49, 21.6kWh, speed @198kW - battery 36%

After 18'52, 34.8kWh, speed @155kW - battery 51%

After 25'40, 50.2kWh, speed @137kW - battery 70%

Really hope they implement battery conditioning in their next software ... (winter mode was off)

If you are just collecting I'd imagine the fix has been done. My father in law was told that Kia would not let the dealer release the car until the fix was done.

Hopefully you are correct... I was told that my car has been in Dublin since December and I was getting pissy with our dealer (I was originally told I could collect on 4th of January). He was putting the delay in delivery down to Covid, never mentioned a fix being done...

Ironically, the salesperson I bought the car from is off from work with Covid at the moment

Well that forum thread I linked to is seems fully of alarmists and angry British men pining for the days of empire or some such when they made cars and foreign cars stayed in foreign places. It seemed to have plenty of undirected guff once you get past the first few posts.

From what I can tell there are two issues, one is heating while driving, another is pre heating not charged in. Not sure if the hardware fix is for both. Should be straight forward to check the heating while driving when you go to collect.

You can try increasing those charging speeds next time by "yo yo-ing ", that will warm up the battery some. Accelerate, then Regen , repeat.... For a few minutes on the way to the charger

Kia.de has a full break down. I'd assume we would have access to anything listed there.

Oh Oh. Getting mine Saturday15th.

These problems are not very good for a car costing €60343 before grant. Have Fiat had anything to do with these cars.

Bjorn explains the charging temps on the EV6 at 9 minutes in

Edit: oh, turn off HVAC to not overheat the battery while charging