Recent content by robdickinson

I wonder how this will go in NZ, half our (and mine in particular) are japan imports with effectively no manufacturers warranty. Mine is 56,000kms and 89% so far.

Had my (2014) since january and I'm still loving it. Its not such a premium interior, compromise has to be made somewhere I guess, I feel its pretending its in a class higher than it is, certainly a decent all round motor but not in bmw/audi teritory. But unless you spend 3-4 times the cost...

I usually set B5 for around town so I can mostly drive on one pedal. Helps if you have a deft touch on the accelerator because you can then choose if you accelerate, glide or regen/brake. On long trips I'll drop that to D/B2 or B0 for gliding. All the B0-b5 settings do is set where the neutral...

The heater is 4kw, car can only draw ~3kw from the mains when on charge so even when plugged in heating will drain the drive battery some.

Thats odd, the ssid can be renamed in the app though, but you would have needed to enter one into the app to connect? dont manually connect to the ssid let the app do it

Welcome! Overall its a great car, had mine 7 months now. 1 - Charging is good, it always charges (less in cold weather), and has timer etc. But the battery management for long term is poor, it mismanages the state of health which can drop faster than expected, this is covered by warranty and...

I dont think the phev's ice is very subtle or quiet, its quite gnarly when running but even then cruising around in a 50km city its unobtrusive. the volt never seen one, its a bit more ev than ice compared to the outlander, bigger battery smaller engine But in truth the 3 you have listed are...

I honestly dont know what would please them? The volvo xc90 phev is £60-70k isn it? Range Rover Sport Hybrid is £70k up The BMW X5 XDrive40e is 'cheap' at £56k but only 18 miles of ev range. Cheapest outlander phev is £32k But yes lets complain the Mitsubishi isnt as good as a car costing...

My car is a Japanese import into New Zealand, not sure how Mitsubishi NZ would view that for big jobs like battery replacements etc? I know other brands are having dodgy air bags replaced, and nissan is looking at the 30kwh battery issue on imports here.

Some of us are outside the manufacturers warranty situation also :/

It runs at 7% per annum pretty consistently for now. Tesla increased energy density by 50% with their new 2170 cells in the m3, thats from a 2012 model s, yes they are class leading but we could have 18kwh now rather than 12.

Same, I think its a case of when its started its worth it ( from a heat/energy/reliability pov?) starting the engine for 5 seconds every now and then is probably quite rough on it so run it for a couple of min just in case?

Ah missed that! I couldnt install from play because it was already installed. Didnt back up anything. oh well.

It keeps 30-35% as reserve, so you will only ever see ~9kwh used

I dont see why not, people run phev watchdog on a droid head unit too.