Hyundai INSTER

I have used the AA for insurance for the past few years - my old car was a 2010 Mazda Demio. Being a Japanese import insurance was pricey at €720. For years we were a one car family as I had a Honda maxi-scooter and was named on my wife's policy. When I got the Inster I only had 1.5 yrs experience on my own policy but about 15 yrs as a named driver on my wife's insurance. First quote I got from the AA for the Inster was 1.4k! The agent said they didn't take named driver experience into account which was strange as they did when I got my Demio quote. Anyway I phoned back the next day and spoke to someone else who said they did in fact take named driver experience into account so new quote for 1k with Aviva which I went with as I was picking up the Inster the next day and had  14 days to get a better deal. I entered my details in the Aviva website (correct car details came up on entering my reg) and got a quote of €817 for the same level of cover as via the AA! I went with AXA in the end - fully comp €551 to which I added open drive (anyone aged between 25 and 70 with a full licence covered  in my Inster) and 3 yrs no claims protection bringing total to €676. In summary I wouldn't recommend going through the AA. They couldn't give a quote online and hold time was 30 mins with lots of dropped calls and no call back. Also quote shouldn't depend on which agent you speak to. Axa were very efficient - the online quote was verified by an agent the next day and they have a Web portal they allows you to make changes eg adding extra drivers.

You’d think with new cars coming on stream they’d be prepared? Too busy raking in money eh!

Picking up an Elegance on Monday, rang my insurance company yesterday to enquire about changing over, they didn’t have the model names, all they had was the crossover, large battery and short range battery. This was Redclick used to be Liberty.

Tried the auto regen, didn’t find it as intuitive as the i-pedal. Not useless but just found myself having to use the brake more.

Saw my ist Inster at Kinnegad charging the other day - Sligo reg. Looks very well in the flesh. 👍️

Absolutely. Even a nice ICE feels analog in comparison.

I was parking yesterday and the man next to me was very impressed with my Inster. I'd say he was well into his 80s, walked with a stick and drove a Honda Jazz with a disabled drivers permit. He reckoned it would be very handy for retirees and young ladies!

Agree with you, thats the demographic for sure.

The opinion of most 80 year olds is very different to what's going on today. I know plenty of them who voted against same sex marriage "because". It doesn't mean their views are reflected in modern society by the majority.

Dunno about demographics, I dislike all the labels people tend to use.

Oh! and I'm not getting one of these to suit my age. I hardly drive at all as it is, use my bike or walk mostly, if I have something too heavy to carry or it's pissing out of the heavens thats what I use the car for. 😊

back to the car….I've seen some vids with matt colours black and matt green ones, they look different, but they're not available here are they?

I've chosen white from the limited range available.

The consensus seems to say that V2L does not work on the current Irish models. @MarkN says this in his video at the top of this page.

Without overthinking it and trying to come up with stretched use cases, is V2L that important?

Following on from my last rather long post re insurance the AA refunded me in full today. I was insured with them for 5 days during the cooling off period so in theory they could have charged me pro rata but fair play to them they didn't.

Has anybody figured out how to enable battery preconditioning? Manual says this should be possible manually through the EV screen or through Bluelink, but I don't see the option in either place on my Elegance car. I also tried doing it by setting a fast charger as the destination, no luck. Don't need it yet but would be nice to know it's working.

Just joining the thread!

Got word on Friday that my Inster Elegance Tomboy Khaki would be ready to collect this week after the SEAI form was send back to the dealer and they got it registered. Was very surprised as I was initially given end of April/start of May as the expected delivery timeframe when I ordered at the end of last month! Dealer must have got extra in their delivery or another customer cancelled their order.

As for insurance, I’m a bit worried given some of the figures people are posting on here, I just renewed with the AA for my current car, a 2020 Nissan Juke with the hope the premium would stay the same or drop by a bit however having been onto them today they said I would have to do a temporary substitution of €30 to allow the car to be added to their price books which can take up to 2 weeks and couldn’t even give me an indication of what the final quote to change may be once they’ve added the car. I’m still within my cooling off period for the renewal so I’m thinking of cancelling and going for a policy with AXA @ €663 with open driving so I have a definite amount. Tried Aviva too but they quoted €1.6k which is absolute madness. Are they’re any other insurers that anyone has been able to get a quote with other than AXA and Aviva? I’ve also tried AIG through Revolut as I’ve switched all my day to day banking over to them and there’s a 10% discount if you’re a metal account holder but like AA they don’t have the car on their system. I’ve arranged to pick up the car on Saturday to give me the remainder of the week to get the insurance sorted so any help would be seriously appreciated 😅

Also I just wanted to point out something about the accessories Hyundai are offering as I don’t think anyone has posted anything about them as of yet. I ended up ordering the all weather floor mats, all weather trunk liner with extension and the bungee cord storage inserts for the interchangeable panels on the front doors. If you’re thinking of ordering any accessories you could be waiting a while as my dealer told me accessory deliveries for the inster still haven’t shipped and could take up until June to arrive with the exception of universal accessories such as charging cables etc. which most dealers keep on hand.

I asked about V2L and like many others my dealer said it’s not enabled on the Irish versions but said he would be happy for me to give it a try with one of the adapters off one of the showroom vehicles that have it. Given there’s been a few people to report it working and some saying it doesn’t I have a feeling there are certain batches coming off the production line that do have it and some don’t. I’ll post an update here if I’m successful, would be such a nice surprise if V2L does work but I’m not getting my hopes up 😅

As for dash cams, I’ve next base in my car atm (front and rear) that I’m going to use in the inster, the dealer quoted me €750 for the Hyundai approved nextbase kit which seems astronomical seeing as it’s only a forward facing dashcam and isnt actually integrated with or set up for remote viewing. Has anyone that’s taken delivery of their inster had an aftermarket dashcam fitted and if so is it easy enough to wire into the fusebox with a fuse tap?

@pmagkav I ended up doing a change on the phone with Aviva. They didn't have the Irish model names on their system but used a "close enough" UK trim level name. They can be manually selected on the website I think, to get a new quote, as the reg won't be recognised yet.