stephenlumley

Yes, I did the reverse wiring mod which helped a lot with the bass and overall enjoyment. However still not as good as the Dynaudio. It certainly depends on the source as well.

I have noticed some slow speed jerkiness though only when the battery is all but flat.

Some would say I am an old man but I don't neccesarily drive like one (all the time)

I've had my L and K IV estate for coming up 2 years now. 22000 miles on the clock. I came from a 2.0 diesel Pasatt estate. A few observations from the last 2 years. original tyres about 80% worn front and 50% rear. Excellent economy for a big heavy car. Last journey this week 3 people and luggage, 233 miles mostly at 50/70mph. Full battery at start. Computer ses 64.2 mpg. (reads a bit high so probably actually 61-62 ish) Regularly get 8-900 miles between fill ups with a mixture of long and short journeys charging when possible. Company car so very low BIK and 2-3p per mile running cost for all my private local journeys. (using Octopus Go 5p/Kwh night rate...soon going to 7.5p) Recent warm weather regularly getting 32 ish miles on battery. Prob about 22 when very cold though. Love the smooth and silent drive experience buzzing around town with instant acceleration when in e mode. Not sure if I could ever have a car now without ACC especially when used with PCC. A couple of small niggles.... Canton sound OK but not as good as Dynaudio in Pasatt. Columbus occasionally locks up when using wireless carplay. Needs long press to reboot. Very occasionally and randomly current speed limit displays in kph ie says 80 in a 50 area. Using PCC car sometimes starts to slow down at junctions where the speed limit on the ajoining road is different even when car sat nav is pointing me straight on. Assume the TSR is picking up on speed limit signs but not convinced of this. Have struggled and failed to update maps and software on Columbus which may resolve these issues. Need to re-visit this. Hybrid mode reverts back to e mode after stopping. Have run the battery down a few times when didn't re-engage hybrid mode.

Over a year in and still loving my iV but this annoys me a bit... When driving along in e mode I need to overtake quickly so foot down and away we go...full power for a few seconds, ie sport mode. So then slow back down but the ICE keeps running and car does not revert back to E mode until you next come to a halt. Only then will the ICE cut out and e mode resumes. The display does not change from e mode. Anybody else noticed this or am I doing something wrong?

Yes there is a timer built into the car for controlling the charging but I find it a lot easier to use the app on my phone. Also I can monitor the energy usage using my Meross energy monitoring smart plug.

I've had my IV for a year now and only ever charge it from a 3 pin socket. No problems here. I also use a smart socket which means I can easily schedule charging to start at 00:30. This is when my Octopus Go unit rate drops to 5p. In the 4 hr slot at 5p it gets to about 85% charged. So I get the first 30 ish miles of each journey for about 70p. i was concerned that the smart plug may cook but it copes perfectly with the 10 amps charging current.

Not had issues with the plug overheating even for a full charge on a warm day. I did do a rough calibration of it though using my smart meter as a reference and found it to be about 15% high.

I monitor my charging power using a Meross smart plug with energy monitoring. The app on my phone looks like this....

I've also noticed a drop off in expected electric range recently. I was down to about 23 or so after a full charge. After a 290 mile journey yesterday I charged up when I got back and now gone up to 27 miles elec range so it seems to keep recalculating this figure based on recent driving style and journey type. When I got back I also filled up with petrol. Only had 5 miles range left and got 56.4 litres in (12.37 galls). Since last fill up I've done 734 miles but also recharged it with a total of 82kWh during this time. This has cost me about £11.56 at 14.1p/kWh. So a total of £62.30 for petrol plus the £11.56 for leccy = £73.86. When converted back to gallons at £1.10/litre works out at 14.75 gallons. So average fuel consumption has been 49.8 mpg. If you don't include the leccy cost it works out as 59mpg. Not bad considering the time of year and 2 of the journeys were long motorway drives. This is slightly better than my previous DSG 150 diesel Passat at this time of year Interesting that I managed to fit 56.4 litres into the 50 litre tank which wasn't quite empty!!

I should take delivery quite soon of a new Superb iV and need to prepare for charging it up. As the car will be parked on the drive overnight most of the time I cannot see that it makes sense to pay for a type 3 wallbox/chargepoint just to cut the charge time down from 5 to 3.5 hrs. I intend to run a direct feed from the consumer unit to a wall socket mounted inside the garage near the roller door. I will leave the type 2 charge cable connected here and then open the garage door, retrieve the cable and plug it into the car then shut the door again. The cable will simply form round the rubber seal on the bottom of the door. I would like to closely monitor how much electricity I use to determine an equivalent mpg from both electric and petrol costs. To do this I am going to try using an alexa type smart plug with energy monitoring built in. Running the App on my phone will give me the information I need to do this. These sockets are rated at 13 Amps so should be able to cope with 13kWh / 5hrs = 2.6 kW = 2600W/240V = 10.8 Amps. Hopefully it won't get too hot. Has anyone tried to monitor the electricity useage by this or any other method. Also if I do decide to go the chargepoint route what is the best price out there for this. Is a grant available to keep the cost down. Wouldn't want to spend a lot on this as wouldn't need to charge it quickly very often.