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In reply to: Trade In old Zoe for new Zoe
Good stuff 🙂
I was quoted £57/mo for 9k battery rental (as written in the brochure).. seems you might have beaten me there! Might have to see if I can haggle the same!
In reply to: Trade In old Zoe for new Zoe
Thanks to are friend DanTup the new deal I have now been offer is:
Trade in Zoe Intens 17in wheels 12,000 mils for like to like £7,000 £5,000 cash back leaving £2,000 deposit , Three year PCP £131.30 a month and £53.00 battery for 9,000 a year mils
To an old shrink like me its a good deal Yes can I have you feed back guys
Thanks Danny boy
Happy days
In reply to: More goodies..
Well i have the charge point already fitted so no go with that idea lol..
And as i have already stated with government discount at £5000 and dealer at £4800 thats £9800 discount and bring the Zoe Intens in white with DAB down to a lovely £8675 now thats a bargain 🙂
I also have less deposit now so gaining another £800 back to me on my PX with the newer deal i fought for.
Which means my ZOE turns a £141 a month over 4 years plus Battery lease at 10k a year £63 a month total £204 a month.. and a GFV at the end so winner winner..
So spending £495 on a lead that will get used at work daily i think is a steal. Saves me charging at home at night in the week and only at weekends.
So apart from trying to get one free there is no where cheaper which was my original question.
Craig
In reply to: More goodies..
thanks – I’m probably in an even worse situation than u…
I got mine in august 2013 @ £15,300. my current mileage is 26K, so I can only assume mine is worth far less than 7k…
one good point is that my mileage battery hire deal is still fixed at £70 p/m but my mileage is set to 12k per year…. obviously this is a mistake on RCI’s side…
In reply to: More goodies..
Hi jit187
The guys I bought Zoe from (Evans Hall) called me to say that EV’s was not holding on to there value as much as they thought they would and could I look at some second hand ones on the internet, I did except there to be a loss on the Zoe as it was a totally new car etc but not as much as it had
Bought September 13 paid £15.500 and March 15, 12,000 mils and 18 months later trade in only worth £7,000 on a knew one
So I asked about and and quickly made up my mind that come September 15 my Zoe would be worth about £3,500 to £3.000 the way Renault are pushing the PCP (selling the car for very little profit if any) it might not even be worth that
The deal I have been offered even has a reduction on my battery lease of £30.00 a month and after three years they swap it for a new one
As I have mentioned before if you want a chat on the phone I am cool with that
In reply to: Pre-Conditioning: does it work for you via the app?
Yeah DanTup, that sounds like the situation alright.. I feel the car sleeps when you turn it off and just does a ping every few minutes. If it’s plugged in it does a quick refresh every minute or so and a full refresh (estimated mileage included) every 30 minutes.
I have tried about 60 times during the last 4 months to get the remote air-conditioning working but only succeeded 6 times. The battery was at all sorts of stages and most of the successes were when the car was charging. I will be testing it when I get a chance but fairly busy with work in the next few weeks. Filming is a bit annoying in the dark 🙂
Nissan owners have a better success rate and they also can pre-condition until their battery is nearly at Low Battery Warning (12% in Zoe). So why can’t we?
In reply to: Pre-Conditioning: does it work for you via the app?
I’d have thought that if you requested an update it would instantly ping the car
I suspect the car “sleeps” when it’s not being used and is not plugged in to save battery, periodically connecting to see if there are an instructions. When it’s plugged in, it might check more frequently (or stay connected) since it’s less of an issue.
If you’re seeing a time in the web app, I wonder if the pre-heat message doesn’t leave a “start pre-heating” notification, but one to start at a certain time; and if it’s not picked up by the car before that time, then it gets ignored.
Shame the car isn’t WiFi; that might be easier to intercept and see what’s going back and forth between the car and Renault :O(
In reply to: Pre-Conditioning: does it work for you via the app?
Sadly another example of poorly thought out software. How anyone could think that a 24 hour comms tolerance is acceptable astounds me. I’d have thought that if you requested an update it would instantly ping the car to get a fresh status provided there is a GSM signal and would notify you if it couldn’t communicate. I’ve given up using R-link for anything other than looking at battery status. I’ve never managed to get a sensible update about the state of charge when plugged into a rapid charger. It’s dishonest of Renault to advertise these features when they just don’t work.
In reply to: Top gear
It’s more an issue that when charged over 90% the battery can’t take a rapid charge, the regen can generate a lot of power. There is probably always room given that there is a bit of battery capacity that isn’t available and unless you charge at the top of a big hill the energy used will always be less than the energy recovered by regenerative braking.
The braking does take me by surprise some times, with it’s slight inconsistency. I’ve got used to braking a little earlier to compensate.
In reply to: Top gear
The problem with Zoe regen braking is that if the car is already fully charged, there is nowhere for the regen current to go, so there is a significant reduction in braking effect. This makes the Zoe braking a bit unpredictable.
One solution would be to dump the excess regen current into a dummy load until the battery was sufficiently discharged. Maybe the next version will have this?
