Why I wouldn't buy another Ioniq 5
Discussion
I am on my third EV as I commute into London daily. I had a BMW i3s for 1 year then a Polestar 2 for two years. I purchased a Hyundai Ioniq 5 Namsan Edition on 1st July.
Many aspects of the car are great. It is very comfortable which is high up my list as I use it for commuting. However the following are driving me mad and I wish I had fully experienced them before parting with £58k.
1. No rear wash wipe. I test drove a car in the dry and assumed it wouldn't be an issue. It is! The Polestar didn't have a rear wiper but the air passing over the car kept it clean and dry. The Ioniq 5 just throws dirty water up at the back window.
2. Cameras instead of door mirrors. Again, the test drive car had mirrors. I can't believe how ridiculous door cameras are. The resolution in poor light is awful. You can't adjust them to see the rear wheel when parking against a kerb. The perspective is really odd. I don't trust them. An engineering solution to a problem that never existed.
3. You can't pre condition the car on a timer unless it is plugged in to the charger. I didn't look into this before I purchased. I read that the car can be pre conditioned and wrongly assumed that it would be the same as my Polestar which was capable of being warmed up via a timer regardless of being plugged in.
Had I known any of these before buying then I probably wouldn't have gone ahead. Put together, they make the car deeply flawed. My mistake and I am only posting this here to help anyone else make a mistake that they may regret.
Many aspects of the car are great. It is very comfortable which is high up my list as I use it for commuting. However the following are driving me mad and I wish I had fully experienced them before parting with £58k.
1. No rear wash wipe. I test drove a car in the dry and assumed it wouldn't be an issue. It is! The Polestar didn't have a rear wiper but the air passing over the car kept it clean and dry. The Ioniq 5 just throws dirty water up at the back window.
2. Cameras instead of door mirrors. Again, the test drive car had mirrors. I can't believe how ridiculous door cameras are. The resolution in poor light is awful. You can't adjust them to see the rear wheel when parking against a kerb. The perspective is really odd. I don't trust them. An engineering solution to a problem that never existed.
3. You can't pre condition the car on a timer unless it is plugged in to the charger. I didn't look into this before I purchased. I read that the car can be pre conditioned and wrongly assumed that it would be the same as my Polestar which was capable of being warmed up via a timer regardless of being plugged in.
Had I known any of these before buying then I probably wouldn't have gone ahead. Put together, they make the car deeply flawed. My mistake and I am only posting this here to help anyone else make a mistake that they may regret.
So coming up to two years since I posted my initial dislikes of the Ioniq 5. I have done 21,000 miles.
The dislikes I mentioned in the first post still stand. I would add the following to the list of dislikes:
Monstrous depreciation. £58.5k to £23.5 k in less than two years and only 21,000 miles.
The 12v battery has been incredibly unreliable and has been replaced once. Hyundai and the dealer does at last seem to have found a fix.
It's best features are its size and comfort.
This has been my third EV. I had a BMW i3s followed by a Polestar 2. The Hyundai has been the worst of the three.
I am replacing it with an Alpine A290 GTS.
The dislikes I mentioned in the first post still stand. I would add the following to the list of dislikes:
Monstrous depreciation. £58.5k to £23.5 k in less than two years and only 21,000 miles.
The 12v battery has been incredibly unreliable and has been replaced once. Hyundai and the dealer does at last seem to have found a fix.
It's best features are its size and comfort.
This has been my third EV. I had a BMW i3s followed by a Polestar 2. The Hyundai has been the worst of the three.
I am replacing it with an Alpine A290 GTS.
London GT3 said:
So coming up to two years since I posted my initial dislikes of the Ioniq 5. I have done 21,000 miles.
The dislikes I mentioned in the first post still stand. I would add the following to the list of dislikes:
Monstrous depreciation. £58.5k to £23.5 k in less than two years and only 21,000 miles.
The 12v battery has been incredibly unreliable and has been replaced once. Hyundai and the dealer does at last seem to have found a fix.
It's best features are its size and comfort.
This has been my third EV. I had a BMW i3s followed by a Polestar 2. The Hyundai has been the worst of the three.
I am replacing it with an Alpine A290 GTS.
This can't be true as the EV crowd tell me I'm talking nonsense every time I raise it ...The dislikes I mentioned in the first post still stand. I would add the following to the list of dislikes:
Monstrous depreciation. £58.5k to £23.5 k in less than two years and only 21,000 miles.
The 12v battery has been incredibly unreliable and has been replaced once. Hyundai and the dealer does at last seem to have found a fix.
It's best features are its size and comfort.
This has been my third EV. I had a BMW i3s followed by a Polestar 2. The Hyundai has been the worst of the three.
I am replacing it with an Alpine A290 GTS.
TX.
Most of the dislikes are fixed on new cars.
I have the top spec 5n.
It has mirrors
It has rear wash wipe
It has battery preconditioning
On a lease so deprecation is not my problem.
As a plus. It’s the most entertaining EV to drive by some margin. It’s quick, well made, comfortable, handles, looks good.
I have the top spec 5n.
It has mirrors
It has rear wash wipe
It has battery preconditioning
On a lease so deprecation is not my problem.
As a plus. It’s the most entertaining EV to drive by some margin. It’s quick, well made, comfortable, handles, looks good.
Tend to agree, but I’d add, charging issues / inconsistency with ovo anytime, buzzy cabin, motorway impact on range, outdated sat nav and dash, not entirely trustworthy autonomous steering, low rent interior, so/so ride.
We spent months looking at polestar, Tesla, Macan EV, Volvo Ex30 as replacements, but ended up test driving an iX and it was so much better we brought on the spot. It’s a relatively ugly thing but in every other respect it’s so much better.
We spent months looking at polestar, Tesla, Macan EV, Volvo Ex30 as replacements, but ended up test driving an iX and it was so much better we brought on the spot. It’s a relatively ugly thing but in every other respect it’s so much better.
blueg33 said:
Most of the dislikes are fixed on new cars.
I have the top spec 5n.
It has mirrors
It has rear wash wipe
It has battery preconditioning
On a lease so deprecation is not my problem.
As a plus. It s the most entertaining EV to drive by some margin. It s quick, well made, comfortable, handles, looks good.
Doesn't the lease cost take depreciation into account? Incredible if not....I have the top spec 5n.
It has mirrors
It has rear wash wipe
It has battery preconditioning
On a lease so deprecation is not my problem.
As a plus. It s the most entertaining EV to drive by some margin. It s quick, well made, comfortable, handles, looks good.
Fast and Spurious said:
blueg33 said:
Most of the dislikes are fixed on new cars.
I have the top spec 5n.
It has mirrors
It has rear wash wipe
It has battery preconditioning
On a lease so deprecation is not my problem.
As a plus. It s the most entertaining EV to drive by some margin. It s quick, well made, comfortable, handles, looks good.
Doesn't the lease cost take depreciation into account? Incredible if not....I have the top spec 5n.
It has mirrors
It has rear wash wipe
It has battery preconditioning
On a lease so deprecation is not my problem.
As a plus. It s the most entertaining EV to drive by some margin. It s quick, well made, comfortable, handles, looks good.
London GT3 said:
So coming up to two years since I posted my initial dislikes of the Ioniq 5. I have done 21,000 miles.
The dislikes I mentioned in the first post still stand. I would add the following to the list of dislikes:
Monstrous depreciation. £58.5k to £23.5 k in less than two years and only 21,000 miles.
The 12v battery has been incredibly unreliable and has been replaced once. Hyundai and the dealer does at last seem to have found a fix.
It's best features are its size and comfort.
This has been my third EV. I had a BMW i3s followed by a Polestar 2. The Hyundai has been the worst of the three.
I am replacing it with an Alpine A290 GTS.
Ouch. Bet you could have run a F430 for 2 years and 20k for about the same money. The dislikes I mentioned in the first post still stand. I would add the following to the list of dislikes:
Monstrous depreciation. £58.5k to £23.5 k in less than two years and only 21,000 miles.
The 12v battery has been incredibly unreliable and has been replaced once. Hyundai and the dealer does at last seem to have found a fix.
It's best features are its size and comfort.
This has been my third EV. I had a BMW i3s followed by a Polestar 2. The Hyundai has been the worst of the three.
I am replacing it with an Alpine A290 GTS.
ChocolateFrog said:
Terminator X said:
This can't be true as the EV crowd tell me I'm talking nonsense every time I raise it ...
TX.
No they don't. TX.
Everyone knows new cars depreciate badly, particularly expensive ones everyday ones.
TX.
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