New EV ID3 or ZOE GT or Kona

Also, how can you get an id3 this week? I thought the waiting list was almost a year! But good for you if you can.

+1 on the ioniq 5 if possible. It will be worth more than a Kona or Zoe at the end of the lease so it might not actually cost that much more to own the "latest and greatest"

If you haven’t put down a deposit on the ID3. It may well be gone before you go in.

I picked up our ID4 on Thursday, it arrived into the garage on Tuesday. The dealer said 3 different people had come in waiving cash for it.

If the Zoe has been updated to fix the issues then great but its genuinely the first I've heard of it.

I've tweeted a couple of people in the know about Zoes to try and confirm this so if I hear anything back I will update the thread.

So twitter replies are in

Uk Renault and EV salesman

(Direct quote)

"They had removed the play model and adding AEBS as standard - which will lift it (if retested) from 0* to 2*"

From Zoe owners club

"The fix* is to actually fit airbags to head height which were removed by Renault.

So unless your fitting airbags to the ze50 that will cover head height then no.

Plus as far as I'm aware it needs seat modification for airbag so new seat also needed".

So no indication from those replies that a fix is actually in place apart from adding things that weren't the big original issue - albeit will lift the cars score on a retest if that's ever done.

*i think the Owners club person is outlining what would in his view be required for any fix rather then saying there's actually a fix.

Absolutely.

I decided the best way forward was just to quote the tweets in their entirety rather paraphrase an interpretation of what someone else said.

The correct course of action as a next step is to get something definitive from Renault Ireland or your dealer re the precise changes.

I was hoping for a straightforward yes or no answer to be honest.

I should note as well that said Renault and EV salesman is actually very well regarded by UK EVers - he sells Hyundais as well.

Theres going to be very few ID3 available over the next while because VW seem to be focusing on ID4.

Have you looked at the Cupra Born? More expensive but you might get lucky with an initial delivery slot.