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Enjoy the Ionic 5 - it's an interesting car, and great IMHO that Hyundai are doing things to make their cars look different. I certainly won't be buying another Tesla after the way they handled the USS removal fiasco, though I will most probably revert to ICE....I fancy something with a large...

Like some others here, we used to routinely buy our cars in Europe - 3 Honda's (including an S2000 which I ran for 3 years / 22k miles and sold for £500 less than I paid for it) and a Renault. Saved many, many thousands of pounds vs. best offers I could negotiate through UK dealerships.

Is fitting with the white spot on the lower side an option - I though these were asymmetrical in profile?

The last pre-facelift (so pop-ups :) ) NSX sold in the UK. Still have it today

I am very, very happy for my car not to be rubbed down with a gritty rag!

Because OP is based in N America...Canada to be specific.

Had my 1st drive in the dark last night since the update to activate proper matrix functionality. 5 or 6 miles along twisting and undulating Sussex lanes. I could see the lights doing what they do, but was also flashed by 3 oncoming cars...I probably only passed 10-12 on the whole drive, so...

My car is an LR and they told me the wouldn't / couldn't code it as spoiler only fitted to P?! Interested to hear if other have had a different outcome?

Pretty much this! I did used the adhesion promoter mentioned and warmed both surfaces with a hair dryer before attaching the spoiler -:it's important to measure, test fit and mark with masking tape precisely where it is going because the 3M VHB tape does 'grab' under these circumstances.

Computer modelling geophysicist. Retired...but now consulting again on fun projects. Work has taken my to 40-odd countries on 6 continents (Antarctica eludes me)....I like to travel!

I decided to retire at 59 (kids all grown up, no debts...computer modelling geoscientist resolving hydrocarbon ownership disputes)....after 12 months found I was missing the work, but certainly not the company / office politics. I now cherry-pick projects which interest me, working for people I...

I agree, and all credit to @edb49 for resisting this demand, though I completely understand why others might just accept this and be done with what must be a trying process. Tesla customer service at its finest.

Where is the risk?! You run the quote, if its sufficiently less to merit cancelling/paying cancellation fees/accepting new quote, you go for it. If it's more / not worth the hassle, you've lost nothing more than a few minutes finding this out!

Agreed. Utter madness.

I suspect that mudflaps will not necessarily prevent this - there will be an accumulation of road grit beind the mudflap and this will slowly abrade through the paint. The fact that the mudflaps hide the area means the rust is more likely to go unnoticed and get a proper hold.

Seriously....if the insurance is looking crazy, I would consider cancelling your order.

Exactly this, as I also noted a few days ago on this thread. Leave the insurers valuation alone when you are getting a quote. The time to go to war on this is if the worst happens and you are not happy with what the insurance co. offers for your car - reject the offer and build a case for a...

Yep, as above, we are much closer to 50:50 (erring more towards in excess of 50% at 7.5p)

Yes, true. Though neither my son nor I saw a jump last year ...indeed, my premium fell, as it did again this year (albeit only by about £20 this time around).

Good news - there seems to be a reasonable.number of renewal quotes coming through with little change ATM (including both my son and I - both M3's).

Two things.....if it makes it to production it won't look like that, but it will have VW's software and firmware inflicted on it.

As mentioned previously in this thread, look at comparisons through cashback sites - these can yield ~£35-£50 cashback.

Agreed....if you let the car 'sleep' it really shouldn't be an issue. I've left my car for 6 weeks and it's only lost 3-4% charge and I suspect a chunk of that would have been in the first 24 hours. Having said that, is leaving the car for 3 months in an airport carpark really the most...

Yep, exactly this. You are probably hurting yourself financially by bumping up.thr valuation for an insurance quote. The time to fight with them is in the event of an insurance write-off. I went to war with my son's insurance company when his car was written off - rejecting their initial...

I do not believe that a self-adjisted valuation will carry much weight in the event of a claim. For that you need an 'agreed value' policy.

Completely....and I am inclined to agree (sorry!!) but the Y, to my eyes, takes poorly resolved proportions several steps too far.

You clearly care about aesthetics...are you sure you can live with the appearance of the Y?!

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/hertz-went-all-in-on-tesla--and-is-paying-the-price-195844835.html

So... astonishingly...perhaps not quite as straightforward as @Jonnymack74 would have us believe?!

So if it really is as easy as you say for someone to disrupt the motor insurance world and have themselves a successful, profitable business, why has no one done this I wonder? I've been called many things in my life but never a 'proper tory'! As for the "I'm alright jack..." quote you so...

True. And sadly you cant unsee them.

If you really, really cannot afford the insurance, what else can you sensibly do?! If you think that by ranting and raving on an online forum and preaching insurrection, urging people not to insure/use their cars that things are going to change, you are impressively deluded!

Bargain!

Another tip when searching for insurance renewal - look at the Topcashback comparison. They may or may not offer a competitive quote, but if they do and you take out the policy through the link provided, you'll get (currently) £40 cashback.

As I said earlier, if the insurance gets really to expensive, change to a car that's cheaper to insure. Seems a more pragmatic solution to me than yours.... Incidentally both my (M3 LR) and my son's (M3 RWD) premiums fell when renewed aver the last couple of months, so it's not all one way...

Yes, that is all sorts of rubbish. Hope it is all sorted out soon with a minimum of fuss and expense.

Yep, they can certainly try ones patience....and a lot of (especially younger / less experienced) folk will tell them to carry on.

Yep, that's doesn't surprise me at all. My son's SEAT Ibiza Cupra (ICE) went in to a franchised dealership near us for something fairy minor. They did a 'complimentary health check' (good of them!) whilst they had the car - sent a video announcing that it needed new disks and pads on the...

Friends have a Hyundai EV (Chichester area) and have no issues with their local dealership...including getting an issue sorted under warranty. I find it hard to believe Hyundai and Kia service centers are universally bad. I know people who have had very good and equally bad experiences...

Sell the Tesla for what you can get for it and buy a nearly new, heavily depreciated Hyundai or Kia and have the peace of mind of a very long (5 and 7 years from new respectively) manufacturers warranty?

Very true.....though Tesla 'new car' smell is quite nasty, so no great loss.

Normal new car depreciation isn't linear...which is why buying carefully selected 6-12 month old cars can help stave off the worst of depreciation.

Quite the opposite for me,.but we are all.different. :) I saw careful buying and selling as a way to move up my (admittedly modest) dream car 'ladder'. There are a couple of fast Honda's I particularly miss and regret selling (Integra Type R and S2000)...but without them, I wouldn't have my...

I have found that if you are willing to put the effort in when buying a car, depreciation can be minimal (I'll leave my current ICE out of this discussion as it is now considered a 'collectable' car, but that certainly wasn't the case when I bought it). Before the Tesla M3 LR, which I bought...

Perhaps time to get rid of the petrol car? Sounds like it would be in everyones best interests?!? I drive 2 petrol cars (I manual, I auto) and 3 EVs (with quite different systems - Tesla's get in and drive / just walk away afterwards is the best, Fiat's bizarre button pressing the most...

If the paint has gone....and best I can tell from the photo it has ...it doesn't matter how good you are with a machine polisher and cutting compounds, it aint going to be fixable that way!!!!!

Because I get irritated when people see.things in black and white and post utter bobbins to support their views. For many, unfortunately, it remains a darned sight more convenient to fill a car with petrol/diesel than to charge an EV.

Sorry about that....I'll try to keep any agreements to a minimum in the future 😉

That I will agree with!

A 200bhp engine uses a very small number of those horses at tickover.