Recent content by Fredrik Lidén

I have had my Ioniq 6 RWD for a month now and I really like it. I was worried about the 12V battery so I have been monitoring the battery status closely. Apparently there is something going on when the car is parked that discharges the 12V battery sometimes, but when it reaches about 70% State...

23 000 miles after 1 year and 8 months. No problems - but needed to swap the windscreen due to a crack in it. Lots of small stones on the roads in the winter here.

Got the windscreen replaced as there was a pretty large crack straight in front of the driver seat. It started with a stone shot under the wiper blade which was not visible from the inside, then a crack started showing which gradually increased in length. There were also other stone shots but I...

I'm no expert but I daily drive with the AC always ON and set the heating at 18 deg C with Auto ON. Occasionally I turn on the recirculation when driving in tunnels or similar. It turns itself OFF after about a minute. My Mini is the Essential version with only the most basic accessories.

In Sweden all subsidies for EVs were taken away on the 8th of November. Cars ordered before that date still qualify, however. There was no warning issued before this decision. It was motivated by saying that "the price on EVs is now comparable to the price on other vehicles"... :-(

Well, maybe they are happier now - but they were on strike earlier this year: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-61091964

I had an iPhone but did not like the erratic Car Play function very much. Now I have a Google Pixel 6 Pro and connect it via Bluetooth to the infotainment system. I have a phone holder with wireless charging stuck to the wind shield and can see the screen while driving. It works very well and...

My car was at 20% charge when I picked it up at the dealers place. No fault codes showed on my way home. Then I of course charged it to 100%

It was the same recall for me in Sweden. The SOS needed an update to say that the car is electric and can not be towed with the wheels on the road.

My 2022 Mini is very silent and feels solid. No rattles at all. I compared with several other electric cars that all gave the impression of lower quality (Renault Zoe, MG ZS, Polestar 2, Kia EV6, Hyundai Ionic 5,...)- well the last two were pretty good too, but priced quite a bit higher. I am at...

My 2022 SE shows just a few km/h more than what I read using the GPS in my mobile phone. Compared to my 2014 Subaru BRZ this difference is much smaller (the BRZ differs by about 5 km/h). As the Mini has a GPS I am sure that this slight difference is intentional.

I now commute a daily roundtrip of about 75 miles (120 km) and the battery is usually at about 60% when I arrive at work. There are some chargers in the parking lot there, but they are usually all occupied in the morning when I arrive. In the beginning I tried to top up the charge before leaving...

We now have snow in Stockholm, Sweden. I agree that it is better to drive with the DTC activated and that the Mini is very much fun to drive in the winter too! The consumption of window washer fluid has however gone up so I might have to visit a gas station to fill that up - and clean the rear...

Indeed! If you want to know what the word means : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakkapeliitta

My SE 2022 also arrived with the black Victory Spoke 495 wheels and Hancook summer tires on it. I'm leasing the car with winter tires included in the price, but they never told me what rims and tires I would get.