BYD Seal

Dealer in Cork told me they're getting AWD version for demo/test.

Car expected to be ready for test next week.

My car due to be ready for Jan I'm told.

I was eager so I called them. Every demo model in the country which arrived is AWD. I was waiting for a call to and they said they are just beginning to work through them. You should get a booking for next week

Is it just the RWD or do they also have the AWD version to test drive?

Great to hear they will be here next week. For anyone test driving I'd be keen to hear just how annoyingly BYD have chosen to implement 'safety' systems given that they can only be switched off via menus and sub menus and have to be switched off every time. Bonging everytime the cameras detect that the speed limit has changed or if you are 1km over the speed limit is very annoying, along with lane centering and lane keeping assist which are dangerous on back roads, nice on the motorway, but not on many of our roads.

Lots of people saying, "oh they'll fix the ADAS with software updates"... don't bank on it, that's a promise we can't hold anyone to unfortunately.

Thanks for info, this is really good news. Agree, mad that it comes to this.

We have an EV6 aswell (RWD Seal would be the 2nd EV in the house) and I think it's great that the camera reads the speed limit and displays it on the dash, very handy for example if on a road you don't know that the limit is on the dash, but it doesn't beep thankfully. The latest EU regs have gone too far. I read recently that they are now looking at regs for noise pollution in the car caused by all the beeping which is a distraction for drivers, who knew that beeping and bonging at drivers is a bad idea 🤔 🙄

I had read reviews that this was a problem on the atto 3 in other countries as well. It turned out that there is no issue with it here in Ireland - no annoying beeping. It does show an alert on the driver binnacle screen if you are over 120/125? km/h but it is just a symbol on the screen no noise. It also shows teh speed limit it thinks applies to the road, which is not always correct, but again this is just a little speed limit sign on the screen with the number in it. Neither of these obstruct any other information.

It beeps if you are using the autopilot and it doesn't detect your hands on steering wheel, which is fair enough, and there is an occasional beep if swerving around - has activated sometimes when I am e.g. overtaking. I think it activates if it detects another car close to you in your blind spot or something, so that can happen if passing another car. The normal blind spot detection isThe other day it beeped when I had to brake sharply behind a car in front of me. In all cases a single beep - nothing continuous or irritating. The only mildly irritating thing is the autopilot one, sometimes it activates even though I am holding the wheel (lightly).

Was either Reddit or speakev, nothing showing on the UK site after a quick search, so I guess it's Reddit.

The process wasn't outlined in detail but from memory it involved putting the APKs on a usb and entering some code into the head unit.

Booked in for a test drive next weekend.

I've paid deposit and confirmed order anyway but will be interesting to test drive.

You said earlier that your car would be available in January..is that because you are waiting for 241 reg or is there that delay before they are in the country

They really need to do away with year on registrations, month of manufacture (for spec) and month of first registration is what matters.

Would be very Star Trek, and class, if it's a case of 'Computer, deactivate all safety protocols'.

Except that is so not the case at the minute.

I wonder how new tech advances and more new Chinese companies will affect depreciation.