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by HaxbyPete
Fri Apr 05, 2019 7:12 pm
Forum: Main Kia Niro chat
Topic: Kia e-Niro
Replies: 18
Views: 29565

Re: Kia e-Niro

I was looking at the e-Niro today online and was amazed by the very drab range of colour options available. Why is it that KIA UK don't seem to think that UK Niro buyers deserve the very same range of coloour options available to European countries ? France, for instance, has choice of eight colour ...
by HaxbyPete
Mon Mar 11, 2019 5:55 pm
Forum: Main Kia Niro chat
Topic: Goodbye Niro, Hello Ioniq
Replies: 1
Views: 6395

Re: Goodbye Niro, Hello Ioniq

After reading your post about your switch from Niro to Ionique I went to my local Hyundai dealer today. But I was surprised to find that the ionique is a Saloon car like the Optima - not a Crossover like the Niro. So it's so much a lower entry and exit point and no good to me for that alone as I wan...
by HaxbyPete
Fri Mar 08, 2019 10:41 am
Forum: Main Kia Niro chat
Topic: Apple Car Play - wireless
Replies: 4
Views: 8395

Re: Apple Car Play - wireless

So far as I know, and I use, Apple Play (and Android) requires a USB connection to activate the software and the voice operated commands. So, unfortunately, I have to have a slightly messy white cable hanging around. But I could be wrong !
by HaxbyPete
Mon Feb 25, 2019 4:55 pm
Forum: Main Kia Niro chat
Topic: Clear White vs. White Pearl. What's the difference ?
Replies: 3
Views: 8219

Clear White vs. White Pearl. What's the difference ?

Still trying to decide whether to change to a Niro HEV 3 with less features than my present Niro HEV 4 just because I can then get it in Runway Red. Or whether to just change to another Niro HEV 4, with all the bells and whistles I like, which isn't available in Runway Red but is available in Pearl ...
by HaxbyPete
Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:33 pm
Forum: Main Kia Niro chat
Topic: Driving tips to charge battery better.
Replies: 15
Views: 25897

Re: Driving tips to charge battery better.

Bruiserboymeasures I don't think you quite have the right idea of how the Niro HEV works - which is significantly different from the way that the PHEV works. i I have had a HEV for almost three years now and It runs moistly with the battery charge level at half charge. That's because the electric mo...
by HaxbyPete
Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:47 pm
Forum: Main Kia Niro chat
Topic: KIA UK E-mailed me a Niro brochure !
Replies: 9
Views: 13827

KIA UK E-mailed me a Niro brochure !

Just been sent an e-mail from KIA UK with this very comprehensive e-mail brochure which covers the whole Niro 'family' of cars. Very interesting to see them all covered together and be able to compare the colour range available for each model. Still wondering why they offer such boring colours but t...
by HaxbyPete
Tue Feb 19, 2019 4:12 pm
Forum: Main Kia Niro chat
Topic: Colour Options - Niro HEV 4.
Replies: 8
Views: 10499

Re: Colour Options - Niro HEV 4.

I've written to KIA UK Corporate, through my local dealer's Sales Manager, so let's see what they say ? Meanwhile, I've been doing some trawling around the 'net. In the US I could buy their top of the HEV line Niro Touring in Runway Red - no problem ! This equates to the HEV 4 in the UK. In Germany ...
by HaxbyPete
Mon Feb 18, 2019 9:44 am
Forum: Main Kia Niro chat
Topic: Colour Options - Niro HEV 4.
Replies: 8
Views: 10499

Colour Options - Niro HEV 4.

I have just spent an interesting fifteen minutes banging my head against a brick wall trying to get an answer out of KIA UK Customer Service. In the end the charming and very polite young lady was just going round and round in circles of corporate speak. She kept repeating that she didn't have an an...
by HaxbyPete
Mon Feb 18, 2019 9:20 am
Forum: Main Kia Niro chat
Topic: PHEV OR HEV? High Mileage
Replies: 9
Views: 11948

Re: PHEV OR HEV? High Mileage

Diesel ? Isn't that a dirty word nowadays ? I can't think why anyone with a view to the future would buy a diesel car any more as they are going to be worthless in the next few years the way that the environment controls are going here and elsewhere in the World.
by HaxbyPete
Mon Feb 18, 2019 9:16 am
Forum: Main Kia Niro chat
Topic: New Owner
Replies: 17
Views: 22562

Re: New Owner

Great ! As I got the very first Niro in York, almost three years ago, the very first versions of the First Edition didn't yet have Apple Car Play installed, just Android Auto. But I prevailed upon Kia through my local dealer and after much nattering of them about nine months later I git them to upgr...