Well everyone has some good thoughts Sure the Kona has some small faults I think the hold button is my only quirk . Besides that the car is fabulous you just have to get used to the layout of all the buttons.
Mine kept beeping at me the other day , couldn't see anything in the mirror, so I put in park and got out and sure enough someone with their child in hand was standing in my drivers blind spot waiting for me to back up, Whew! thank you. I spoke with her and she was used to EV's backing out silently from the charge location, so as a precaution she tends to wait until maneuver completed and was surprised that I knew she was there.
Only solution is to move the seat forward.
Regarding point#3, there is a solution:I agree about most of those things, I would have preferred the white interior I just thought it looked really nice; but, I wasn't going to chance waiting. I didn't get Ultimate and you're making me feel better about that lol. I am surprised the nav is out of date, that would definitely annoy me too.
My issues:
- How to update the head unit? In my previous car it had wifi and/or you could use USB drive. I assume it has to be able to be updated... but I'm pretty sure the car doesn't have the ability to connect to wifi unless I missed a huge feature.
- I hate hate hate that I cannot put my phone on the wireless charger, close the door, and use Android auto. I don't want to have to plug in the phone - that totally defeats the purpose of the wireless charger!
(this issue goes hand-in-hand with the first bullet item as I'm hoping a future update will permit android auto over wireless but again... my understanding is that wireless Android Auto only works over wi-fi not bluetooth...
- Bird s---. I am absolutely sure that more birds have dumped on this car in 6 weeks than all the other cars I have owned in 30 years, combined. Really. That cannot be coincidence. (car is in the garage 98% of the time so it's not like I'm parking under a tree that has a new nest or anything). Anyway... probably can't blame Hyundai for this but that doesn't mean I wouldn't try to (in my head, at least). I literally cleaned birdstuff off my car in FOUR different places last night after driving like... 20 miles. In other news, I'm starting to hate birds.
- I don't like the audio buttons being on the left, I want those on the right and the other controls (for like changing the dash options) on the left. Maybe it's b/c my last car was this way? I dunno. I just know in 6 weeks I'm still trying to change the station and volume on the right.
You can adjust the collision warning in three steps. Early, medium and late. I set mine to medium instead of early. Once in a while I feel like it's still a little bit to early but so far it's been better for me.
What they're saying is that THEY are only going to update the maps that often.
Good complaints, Skookum Pete! I would like to add another one: The foot rest for the left foot is too small for big-footed North Americans and Europeans. It should be at least an inch wider. And we six-footers also need a gentler angle to the foot rest to make it effective and comfortable, especially during high-performance driving. But all in all, Hyundai has crafted a fine automobile.It's been a bit dull around here lately so let's have a good whinefest. What stands between your beloved Kona and perfection? Not so much missing features as things that could have been better implemented or that are just not to your taste.
Those things off my chest, there are way more things that I like about the car and after three months or so I'm still jumping into it at random times to go for a drive.
- I don't like the black-on-black interior that comes with the dark leather. With the privacy glass in the rear it feels like you've got Dracula's coffin back there.
- I don't like pressing buttons in the x-axis to move in the y-axis. Why don't D and R point fore and aft?
- I don't like the row of buttons behind the steering wheel on the left. They're hard to see, one of them is actually two, and they have an odd assortment of functions.
- I don't hate the nav system and I do use it because I don't have a data plan on my phone to use Google Maps, but I don't like that the map is badly out of date, particularly the charge station data, making a selling feature of the car essentially useless.
- I'm surprisingly grateful for the many warning features, but I don't like it when the car natters at me about my seat belt the minute it's turned on.
Always wanted to meet Bigfoot.
Touché!
Yes, seat/wheel ergonomics are sub-standard and are apparently the result of short-sighted cost-cutting.
