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Nick and San Serif – welcome!
Nick, when I ordered at the end of last year I just got a handwritten piece of paper – did you get anything more substantial? A computer printout, perhaps even with a chassis number, or are things still a bit manual?
Hi Trevor, I got an official printed order form with price details. Right now this is not linked to my pre-order because Renault appear to be useless. I agree with other comments that this pre-registration has been hugely mishandled and a great missed opportunity. I’m now in the process of trying to get a number from Renault to link with my order and get my £49 credit – and hopefully and earlier slot in the production queue. I did decide to order a different colour to my pre-registration so that might go against me! Will keep you updated.
Is it worth starting a new forum for order experiences/delivery and then driving experiences?
Thanks. Nick.
Sounds like you have something more concrete than me – I’m talking to my dealer tomorrow to arrange a test drive later in the week so I’ll ask about my order status and paperwork.
Is it worth starting a new forum for order experiences/delivery and then driving experiences?
I don’t have an objection to this, though I would put those two/three together (in the French forum they are separate, for example, which makes it hard to track one person’s experience from order through delivery to driving experience). However, I’m currently more concerned about fragmenting the forum as it’s still pretty quiet. I can always split off threads into a separate forum later if/when the need arises.
Just sharing my opinion about this forum, but I think it’s at least partly quiet because it is a pain to figure out where to register and login (somewhere on the right after scrolling three pages down in a submenu called “meta”), login data is often not remembered, it’s almost impossible to navigate and post through a mobile device (iphone) and the forum link itself is not a primary menu item, hidden as a link in the end between 12 other main menu items.
Also some forum items are sort of coupled to blog posts, which make navigating hard and confusing a bit. And I’m a techy, so I can imagine folks that are less persistent and less nerdy have a hard time quickly, even just trying to log in or even find the register option.
Set it up more like priuschat.com, make the login process easier (perhaps use other, easier forum software, perhaps even a dedicated site?) and more obvious and try to let the site revolve more around the forum, to let it play a more vital role (which I think it should). It seems more like an afterthought now in multiple ways (which I guess it was?).
I really think that would help, but I also know that it’s never a guarantee that a forum will spark to live. You always need a few die hard posters to keep the initial fire going and wait for more fresh twigs.
Feel free to delete or move this posts as it might not actually fit in this topic.
If there’s any way I can help, let me know. There’s no other “international” (at least not French) Zoe forum that I know off, the potential is pretty big I think. Hope I don’t come over to blunt, I’m sure you’ve spent quite a lot of energy at it already. And it’s obvious you have more knowledge on the tech side than I do.
Nosig, thanks for the feedback. I found the login link low down on the page (the standard WordPress location) awkward too, so I added it to the top of the Forum page some time back – let me know if that’s not showing or working on an iphone. In the meantime I’ve moved the Forum page link to be second after Home (I can’t make it first).
Meanwhile I hope/believe the worst of the posting bugs are behind us (but everyone please shout if you see an issue).
I am not averse to more radical changes as I am keen for the forum to succeed. It currently uses bbPress software as that is the most closely integrated to the main WordPress site. The benefit is that it can automatically create a forum thread for each post I wrote on the main site and – let’s be honest – that was often the only forum activity at times.
As the forum becomes more popular that’s less of an issue, and it sounds like you don’t like the linking to forum posts anyway, so I will look at alternative forum options. There would likely be downsides, though, if we changed – such as losing current posts and logins.
As more and more of us are test driving and soon getting our own cars, it would be very nice if we could upload a photo of our own ZOE.
Just saying hello.
Looking at the Zoe quite seriously having been an EV “fan” since driving a MINI E test vehicle many years ago.
Name’s Paul, live in Milton Keynes, and have found trying to get information from the dealer about ordering, wait times, specifications, finance etc a little bit of a challenge, but very early days (only went for a drive at the weekend).
Hi all, I’m Andy from just outside Watford.
We’ll be replacing our 3-year old Fiesta with a Zoe; the Fiesta is only used for local trips so gets awful MPG, the Zoe makes a lot more sense. We’d also be able to do most of our other journeys with the Zoe as well, leaving just the long-range and heavy lifting to our Grand Picasso.
I placed an order with Renault Watford in mid May, supposedly it’s expected around mid August. Went for a fully loaded Intens (black).
I’m currently deciding what to do about the charging point…
Hi, Steamrunner – welcome!
Anonymoushello im simon the wife is thinking of getting zoe intens and taking one for a test drive this weekend
just wondering if anyone has got much of a deal or anything thrown in
thanks
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