Coming Back?

[Dusz]

Back in 2016 I had a facelift PHEV as a company car. Sadly when the lease finished the price that the lease company wanted for me to purchase it was well above normal forecourt prices so I handed the car back in March 2020. Note, this car is still off the road with the MOT that I put on it being the last recorded MOT. So what could have been a win-win situation turned into a lose-lose situation.
We are now looking at replacing my 1.6 TDi Passat Estate potentially with an Outlander PHEV and most probably one with the 2.4l engine as my wife would be able to drive to and from my eldest son's house totally on electric.
However I am now wondering how all the traction batteries in the older vehicles are now fairing. Is the battery life reasonable or is it falling short of expectations?
Have any other issues arisen with the PHEV, anything special to look out for on a used vehicle?
How easy it is to find replacement parts since Mitsubishi left the UK shores?
Would people still recommend the Outlander PHEV or are there any better options?
I see that the model versions have been renamed, my previous car was a 4h and I particularly liked being able to set a timer for the car to warm up and defrost during the winter months. Could people tell me which versions have this feature?
Also, how is sat nav now organised?
Thanks for any help you can give.

 

[AndyInOz]

Mine appears to be still going strong.

We're coming out of winter at the moment, I'll try to remember to grab a shot of the range on the guess-ometer, the next time I take the car out.

 

[ASeitzinger]

Mine is a Model 2017 with 85.000km on the clock, 70% of them electric.

My electric range is now 30km-35km. I bought the car new and I have never seen more than 35km-40km electric range.

To sum it up, the Outlander is the best car I had so far, and that includes various GM, Mercedes, VW, Stellantis.

Recently thought of buying a new Ioniq 5 or new Outlander but decided to keep the old car and do some engineering with the drive battery - the larger battery modules of the 2018-model are already waiting in my workshop and extra modules to be used in a separate pack (range extender) are on transit from china.

I recommend to have the underbody and the cavities sprayed to prevent corrosion because if you decide to replace the traction pack after maybe 10 years, the chassis should be in an adequate state.

Had mine treated when new and I don't regret the extra €€ I spent on it.

 

[DaveL59]

I bought a 2019 2.4L 4HS beginning of last year with 45K miles on the clock. Range seems fine on electric at 18-23 miles indicated. The car has pretty low use but other than local trips to the shops etc most journeys it is used for are 30-100 miles each way. I tend to hit save once I'm on fast roads and it returns reasonable to me MPG. I always have the AC turned on, prefer to have comfort when travelling tho I know that drops the EV range.

I guess how good the battery is will depend on previous owner(s) use,. If mostly EV with lots of charging up then I expect the battery will be more worn out, as it were.

My 4HS does have the timer feature tho I've never used it, IIRC the 4H would as well, no clue on the later model designations that came out here from late 2019/2020.

Mine had a different head unit than the all-touch standard one so I don't have the EV info/settings available other than by the mobile app.

One thing to consider if going for the later 2020+ models with the bigger screen is several seems to have reported them going faulty and a very long fix time, due to availability of replacement units.