Zoe Owners Daring Tales/Boring Discussion Thread.......
Discussion
jonny427 said:
I was looking forward to trying the Zoe for a couple of days, went to pick the car up but there was a problem with the charger. The dealers says should be sorted in a couple of days. I have been back a couple of times to check on progress, but have now given up, the dealer cannot be bothered to contact me.
No point on a Zoe right now as it will cost you top $ a Leaf is cheaper but if you really want one try Lookers they gave me paint and an armrest for a weeks delay.VonSenger said:
Evans Halshaw and whoever owns Derby. But Renault in general, s
te.
Purchased mine from Bristol Street in Derby - agree they are fairly useless but I shouldn't have anything else to do with them now that I've picked the car up. Fingers crossed the local dealers are a bit better but previous experience of Renault dealers doesn't give me great hope.te.Picked mine up at the weekend. So far so good...managed a 65 mile trip back from the dealer and got back with 24% charge remaining which was pretty good. Helped by the 50 limit on the M1.
Impressed with the stereo and Ipod integration - although the Sat Nav seems a bit dim considering it's a Tom Tom unit. The pre heating is good - nice to get into a nice warm car when it's only 2 degrees outside.
Butter Face said:
If anyone is still looking I have some ex-demos just come up for sale, one 14/14 in black with 17's and one 14/64 in Grey, both Dynamique Intens, both with less than 2k miles for £8995+ Battery lease.
PM Me if anyones interested!
Are renault planning any meaningful action on the buying a battery front?PM Me if anyones interested!
I just cant see how getting a zoe with the ongoing battery cost makes sense against a leaf.
lost in espace said:
Anyone parked and used the purple car park charging bays at Excel in London, is the parking free by any chance?
Lol. £15 flat fee even if you stay 5 mins. Pay and display but not sure how strictly it's enforced.At least they are never iced and were working a couple of weeks ago when i last went (source london )
Weird one, parked and after a couple of issues getting started got the Source London charger working away. When I came back to the car all power had gone off at the post and my cable could be pulled out. It had snowed/hailed and I am wondering if the post had shorted and turned itself off.
ooo000ooo said:
Can you disable the radio shutting down after 10 minutes when car is turned off? Sitting watching a film last night when charging, it doesn't restart from the last position so every 10 minutes I had to guess where I had watched to.
Wait... what??Tell me more about watching a film on the radio please
Streaming from a phone?
DSLiverpool said:
Zoe is doing 3.6 m/KW at .17p = 106 MPG we shall see what the Leaf does from next week.
Are you measuring the actual electricity consumed (i.e. from your wall charger)? Zoe has inefficient low kW charging (because the same charger supports high kW AC charging and a lot of the electrical losses are fixed, not%).
Really disappointed by the Zoe. Renault delivered a demo last week for a 2 week trial across several users in our business. We buy company cars from them regularly.
It looks like a lovely thing in my view but that was where it ended. Range on the car fully charged was 88miles and within the space of 5miles this dropped to 65miles. It managed to go into low power mode as it thought it was overheating twice in the 2 very short runs it made.
The reply from Renault was that it's a very complicated vehicle and that I needed to call the local dealer out to check what was going wrong! The same dealer who wasn't interested in supplying a fleet of new Meganes!!!
I declined this offer and they recovered it the same day....didn't seem suprised that I wasn't impressed.
Interestingly the car was nearly a year old yet had only a couple of thousand miles on it so maybe I am not alone in experiencing this kind of failure.
I buy a number of company cars and have found Renault to be one of the most helpful so far....other manufactures are very lazy and don't seem interested in a fleet of about 60 cars. I was hoping that the Zoe's would integrate well with what we do and make us a lot greener as they go!
It looks like a lovely thing in my view but that was where it ended. Range on the car fully charged was 88miles and within the space of 5miles this dropped to 65miles. It managed to go into low power mode as it thought it was overheating twice in the 2 very short runs it made.
The reply from Renault was that it's a very complicated vehicle and that I needed to call the local dealer out to check what was going wrong! The same dealer who wasn't interested in supplying a fleet of new Meganes!!!
I declined this offer and they recovered it the same day....didn't seem suprised that I wasn't impressed.
Interestingly the car was nearly a year old yet had only a couple of thousand miles on it so maybe I am not alone in experiencing this kind of failure.
I buy a number of company cars and have found Renault to be one of the most helpful so far....other manufactures are very lazy and don't seem interested in a fleet of about 60 cars. I was hoping that the Zoe's would integrate well with what we do and make us a lot greener as they go!
rangie999 said:
Really disappointed by the Zoe. Renault delivered a demo last week for a 2 week trial across several users in our business. We buy company cars from them regularly.
It looks like a lovely thing in my view but that was where it ended. Range on the car fully charged was 88miles and within the space of 5miles this dropped to 65miles.
The range in the Zoe is not like the leaf. It under estimates and it will adjust to how its driven. So if it says 88miles that might be at say 3.5miles per kw, the last driver took it easy. Then if a new driver gets in and goes bansai at it, it will drop to say 3miles per kw and the range will adjust down.It looks like a lovely thing in my view but that was where it ended. Range on the car fully charged was 88miles and within the space of 5miles this dropped to 65miles.
I drive mine like a hot hatch and it never says more than 55miles range fully charged. I've never ran out of charge yet and I find it does more than the 55 miles it states.
The other range killer I find is speed. You can floor it up to 40mph all day long and its happy. Keep it above 65mph for a long run and it kills the range.
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