Hyundai INSTER

Yes, that recall was done a few months ago when the car was in to get one of the various problems fixed (I'm losing track of them at this stage)

My turn now now on the charging roundabout. Plugged in at work (3ph 22kW AC, only get 10-11 of course due to car limitation) late this morning and checked at lunch to see % only up by 20 and estimated time at 22hours. Knew straight away so went out, changed to 90% charging rate, reset cable and started normal. Within 4 minutes it had gone from the c.10kW to c.2kW.

Back home, did a quick check and went for 7 minutes at 6.3kW (90%) so will give it a longer run tonight.

Booked in for the latest campaign update tomorrow, North Dublin.

Have avoided issues until now, 8400km since August. Let's see...

This morning I had to replace the key fob battery for the second time on a car that is barely eight months old. The original battery was CR2032 so I've used this type for replacement although the manual lists the battery as CR2450 (same voltage but different form factor so not really suitable). I searched on the web and find that (once again) this appears to be another common issue.

You can ask away but they are stubborn pr1cks to deal with unfortunately.

I bought Inster almost a year ago. A few times I got mad, and blamed myself for not turning on the charger, but since I started commuting to work on daily basis this week, I have noticed that after 1.5 hour the charging rate drops from over 7kW to less than 2kW.

Bear in mind that I don’t do any washing up at night, nor do I take showers between 2am and 6am. It happened twice this week on a scheduled charging.

Manual boost worked fine yesterday.

In January the dealer recalled the car for some ICCU thing, but did not explain the reasons to me, although I asked. I guess I know now, but whatever they did, it didn’t fix the issue. I will go to the garage, but - if I may ask for advise - what do I say?

…and be ready for ICCU to die a few weeks later. My 2nd ICCU failed last week 2 weeks after the software update. I think my dealership knew it would happen as the part was in stock and car was fixed the next day. I cannot fault my dealership but it is very annoying when you wake up to this problem on Monday morning. It again knocked out my Zappi when it died.

anyone done the OTA update? Screen has gone blank now. How long does it take to update?

Seen one on a motorway today. It was behind a Tuscon and it did look so tiny in comparison. Not sure about the comfort inside but its very visible how the car jiggled on that bad road surface. But parking in Grafton street car parks must be a breeze. You’d struggle to find it though behind all those SUVs :)

I never even got any errors. It just stopped charging.

Hopefully they have the part in stock and will fix it for you quickly like it was in my case.

Hyundai extended warranty on this up to 15 years but there is mileage cap. Seen it discussed here. Cost will be high enough to negate your savings on fuel and if failed more than once to make it worse than ice.

I wonder why folks keep queueing up for Hyundai cars knowing they charge hundreds for their non conductive coolant change, hi service costs and ICCU issues.

What are you on about, 150 20KW (3000KW's equals about 20,000+ kilometres) charges at 8c per kilowatt, works out at €240 'fuel' costs per year vs 20,000+ kilometres on diesel which is about €2,000. Only if you don't have a home charger and you invalidated your car's warranty, would repair issues come into play and thats accepting that ICE cars don't have mechanical issues also.

My Inster had an issue, it was fixed under warranty, garage were pretty good about it, I would expect the same treatment if another issue were to arise. My previous car was a diesel quasqai, had a DPM sensor snag and then an injector issue both cost a few bob. I expect my servicing to be less with the Inster. A €1,000+ in 'fuel' alone each year builds up pretty quickly to counter act any non warranty issues.

Got my Inster back on Saturday with new ICCU, 8 days in total with Hyundai. Was offered a replacement Inster courtesy car but it coincided with a holiday so didn't take it.

I've been very critical of Hyundai Wexford in the past but the new guy heading up Service in there seems decent, he's the first guy there that didn't try to bullsh!t me. I asked him re the 15 year warranty on the ICCUs - he said it wasn't in place on Insters yet as apparently the part is completely different to that ICCU part used in the Ioniq5s etc (which is worrying in itself!). But he anticipates it may come due to the number of Insters they're seeing with the issue.

If you have the myenergi app or an app for your ev charger, take a screenshot of the drop in charging rate. If a friend has an ev, get them to avail of a free overnight charge and compare against yours.

I had noticed a gradual drop off in the charge actually reaching the car, it would get 16kws of a 20kw charge, then 15 and it keep getting lower. Dealer blamed my charger (zappi) even thought my wife's Leaf would get the full charge. Eventually like you, the charge rate began to drop from just under 7 to under 2kws, until finally the dreade "check electrial system" warning. Turned out to be my coolant pump. They said my car was reducing the incoming charge to protect the battery as it wasn't being cooled.

Check the coolant level, if possible and not a long term solution, use excess energy from your solar system (if you have one) the charging rate will be low, but if you can't do that, you will be able to DC (fast) charge the car.

Set the charging current to 90% and see if that helps temporarily.

Mine worked fine at 90% for 3-4 weeks and then ICCU failed completely (knocked out my Zappi when it did)