Hyundai INSTER

I had the exact same concern so I tested the car on a quiet road at night (the glare from the brake lights is easily visible in the rear view mirror, or you can switch on the rear camera) and these are the ‘paddle position settings’ results:

1. freewheeling/coasting - no brake lights (obvs! 🙄)
2. next setting (mild regen deceleration equivalent to engine braking in 4th/5th gear) - no brake lights
3. next setting (slightly stronger regen deceleration as you would get from gentle braking) - brake lights on
4. next as for 3.
5. IPedal mode as for 3.

Note: further testing is needed for the condition where you adjust the regen with the accelerator pedal in settings 3 to 5 (this scenario was a highlighted problem with the Ioniq cars) where I believe the brake lights go off when the rate of adjusted deceleration matches 2. (as you would expect). Also, when the car comes to a complete stop (in iPedal) the brake lights should come on and stay on - but you might want to test all this yourself on a quiet road at night…

Any recommendations for rubber floor mats, please?

What finance options are people getting for these? (If)

You should get both cables as standard. Mooney’s told me they had a shortage of granny cables and asked if I didn’t want mine. But they come with the car. Go back and get what you paid for ;)

That’s not a great move by Hyundai upping the price over the year and removing the granny cable.

It’s a fantastic car for accelerating. Especially coming from a petrol car.

if you get to “signing the order form” stage, simply say: “I’m sorry, if you’re not going to include the granny cable I’m done with this”. Then get up to leave.

Trust me, you won’t get near the door before the sales guy/girl squawks “OK! OK! We’ll include it!” 🤣

Delivery isn't free.. it states on the site that it excludes delivery

What does this do? 🧐

It’s the emergency release for the charger plug if the charging port/charge plug unlocking mechanism doesn’t unlock and your car is being kept ‘hostage’ by the charge plug+cable

happened to me once at a public fast charger when the machine ‘had a funny turn’ and wouldn’t allow me to remove the charging plug which meant I couldn’t continue my journey (eventually the machine reset itself and finally released the plug)

You never know, it might happen to you one day!

How much electricity do ‘systems’ use? 🧐

the Inster has its own handy built-in ‘smart’ meter, just like the one at home (probably shoved in a drawer somewhere after the novelty wore off…)

‘Ignition on’ - about 200 watts, or 2 x 100 watt old fashioned light bulbs (it fluctuates around this level)

Heated driver’s seat (on lowest setting - plenty hot enough!) - about 100 watts

might be useful to know if you ever get stuck in a snowdrift… 😮😅

You can play around with the various buttons +knobs to find out what all the other systems consume

Managed to get it down to 24200 for black elegance variant in the end. Deposit paid, est delivery of 11 days, not too bad!

By rights we should be cheaper since we have a grant and they don't.

yeah, the important bit I said “A/Trader listing new 02/‘Elegance’ for pretty much the same price (with €/£ conversion)”

£20,700 for a brand new 02/‘Elegance’ is pretty much exactly what @adam240610 has just paid 😊

in the year 2025 you really have to ignore Hyundai’s ‘Price list’ and dealer’s showroom prices and see the online prices!

I didn't know that. Thanks. Good move by them, it was needed.

Great idea on the kettle, I also actually ordered that screen protector today.

if you’re happy with it that’s all that matters 😊

only if you’re watching a movie or music vids might you want the better picture quality without