BYD Seal

Car in garage for service at moment but will test to see if car will start as well as unlock from the smartwatch when I collect it this morning. Handy feature all right if it works

The app on my smart watch has been working fine but to be honest I haven’t been using it. Need to pin it up higher and I might

Got 2nd service today changed four tyres to Nexens , don't know much about them but time will tell. Changed wipers as well. They took car in yesterday and gave me a nice little Dolphin Surf till this morning, no charge.The service lady confirmed 1 year 20000 km service still applies to older Seals, the 2 year 30000 km plan only applies to cars that are 252 or newer, a bit strange?

Unfortunately the service lady is ill-informed. I’m sure the Nexens will be fine 👍

Insurance renewal for Design model came out Friday at €830 😮. €371 with Aviva after 10 mins work.

Just reading up on the MY26 release of the BYD Seal: https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/byd/seal/369002/new-byd-seal-2026-updates-bring-bigger-boot-bigger-frunk-and-more. . Very minor improvements, the red colour might be cool. Bigger boot seems handy, probably deeper I guess? And there's a bluetooth car key now, so you can probably get the Tesla experience of unlocking and locking your car. There's nothing about the chipset used or the software itself (if it matches the one on the Sealion now), but looking at the dash picture the instrument cluster panel does look slightly different:

Yep, was kind of expecting that they would just bring the refreshed Chinese model to the international market.

Nah, that was the Seal 6 (DMi) I seen. It's a PHEV with either saloon or estate option and a choice of either a 10kWh or 19kWh battery on board coupled with an ICE. That should get you somewhere in the region of 50 - 100kms real world on EV only depending on which model you choose but they are boasting crazy numbers WLTP when you couple the larger battery with a full tank of juice, somewhere in the region on 1500kms.

I think the one on the top is new Seal Dodzy has the pop out door handles that the Seal 6 doesn't have, also has the new Seal wheels and BYD on the back. I think the one on the bottom is Seal 6 all right as doesn't have pop out door handles

Nope, you are correct, a definite step back in some respects IMO. All that unuseable real estate on the screen is just plain stupid, for what, to have a silly 'always on' pic of a mountain or a moon. Seriously ? The predecessor was better in this regard. Dirrty big feckin' icons for your most used threesome that you didn't even have to take your eyes off the road to select, and of course swipey-lefty for all others. Now I nearly need to put on bloody glasses to look at the stupid cluttered toolbar on the bottom of the screen.

There were welcome additions of course but surely it would not be a massive reach to allow us to pick and choose what icons we want and have them laid out in a window-esque homescreen type setup!

On the HUD the blind spot indicator possibly handy , could have put the navigation instructions to the left of the right blind spot indicator but instead put an icon that flashes when you cross a road line without indicating which to me is a bit pointless, Must be ample space for more info as they went from one row to two

My gps was screwed up after the update but seems ok now. I did a software reset by holding down the volume switch which I think may have cured it. I had issues with gps and speed limit indication but seems all ok now

Yes. Had those fixed during service. The gps issue was really weird, it seemed to gradually get better after I did the reset, went from being about 10K off to nearly 100 meters after software reset, it seemed to gradually fix itself then , just checked app and it's probably about 2 meters off now however once car is moving it seems to correct itself (I think). Not sure where it gets its gps signal from, I use Android auto and Google maps and before software reset it would get correct gps position when the car was moving but when the car stopped at lights or stop sign it would loose its location, as soon as I pulled off again it corrected itself (most of the time). My software data had just ran out before update so that may have had a bearing if sim without data only contacts it's base station intermittently although seems ok now