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Sorry, I should probably clarify that my new car is on a personal lease deal, as I’ve decided to come out of the company car scheme. Agree that taking the Mercedes on the company car scheme, with the associated BIK, would be madness ! The BIK 3 years ago was 5%, and significantly lower than...

Had my PHEV for 3 years now, and have really enjoyed it, but time to move on unfortunately and I’m not going to be replacing it with another one. I got mine at a time when the tax treatment was extremely favourable, particularly with the government grant towards the purchase price and the 5%...

Think carefully about how often you intend to use it before shelling out a not insignificant amount of cash to buy one, as you need to do an awful lot of charging to justify the initial outlay. If you’re only planning to use it occasionally, rather than every day, then I don’t think I’d bother...

I think a range of 200 miles is very pessimistic. General consensus on here is that when running on petrol, with a depleted battery, an average of 35mpg is reasonable. Bring that down a bit for having a roofbox and travelling slightly faster, but you should still be achieving something around...

Same for me as others here, the interface is a bit ‘clunky’ but never had a problem with the routing or the way it actually works when the route has been calculated. Just a thought, but there are four options for how you want the route to be calculated – i.e. fastest, shortest, easiest, most...

You can do that here too if you bank with Royal Bank of Scotland or NatWest, you just generate a code from within the mobile app and it lets you get cash out of an ATM. Has come in really handy a couple of times when my son has been out and run out of cash – I can just give him the code number...

True, but then my car is leased and I don't have to pay for tyres, so if I did choose to have some winter tyres that would represent a sizeable extra sum I'd have to pay out.

I'm with you on this one. Yes, its a bit inconvenient but I can work from home, and unless you are a fool who goes out driving during a Red warning then its not really the end of the world. Events like this are probably about a 1 in 10 year happening in the UK. To gear up our infrastructure...

Hi, welcome to the forum. 1. I don't think you can do this directly. You'd have to press the power off button, and then press it again but without putting your foot on the brake. This is basically like turning the ignition on in a normal car, so will allow you to use all the electrical...

Ah OK, so presumably he has a car with no electric heater ? Missed that bit

I must be missing something….your commute is 35 miles, but you return home with 11 miles of battery range remaining ?? Unless you are using the Save button you shouldn’t be returning home with any EV range. Even in optimum conditions the PHEV will struggle to do more than 25-30 miles on EV, so...

Exact calculations will vary depending on usage patterns, but I’d say that as a general rule it should pretty much always be cheaper to run on electric than petrol. A full charge is around 10KwH, so that will cost you approximately £1.15. A gallon of unleaded is around £5.50, and realistically...

The MMCS is somewhat clunky and not as user friendly as other systems, but I’ve never had any of the problems that you describe, such as rebooting mid journey. Likewise, the WiFi and remote app works fine for me and I use it all the time in the winter to set the timers for pre-heating. So yes...

I think that the only way to delete a paired device is via the voice control. Press the button on the steering wheel and I think there is a 'setup' menu which you can go into and then follow the prompts. You need to know the 'number' for the registered device, i.e is it number 1,2,3 etc. when...

Plenty of info on this forum, and if you have time to read through you will get a good view of what its like. In short though, I'd say that generally the vast majority of the people are very happy with the car, but the answer to 'is it worth it' comes down to your personal situation and how you...

I charge every night at home. I generally also charge up at home after every journey and leave it plugged in, unless I’ve only done a small distance and I know I’ll be using it again the same day. I’ve had mine for 2 years and have only ever charged it once away from home. That was at our...

The snowflake symbol turns the Air Conditioning on and off. This is separate from the temperature setting, but obviously if you want cool air in the summer then you need to have the A/C switched on, and if you want dehumidified heat in the winter (to reduce the amount of moisture / fogging in...

If you do that though, doesn't it mean that you cant then use the app to connect if you want to make changes to the timers ? Although you are connecting via the app, the phone still needs to recognise the saved WiFi network ?

I have an Android phone and use an app called Automate It. I have it set so that every time the phone connects to the car’s Bluetooth it turns off WiFi, which prevents the phone then connecting to the car’s WiFi and losing internet connectivity. When the phone disconnects from Bluetooth it...

No, youre not doing anything wrong. The ‘range’ figure quoted is not very accurate, and is known on here as the ‘guessometer’ as it generally bears no resemblance to reality. It attempts to use your previous trips to estimate how far you will get if you continue to drive in exactly the same...