A long-winded 1-year ownership report on my Hyundai Ioniq 5

Almost entirely good!

00:00 Intro / overall thoughts
01:14 My car’s paint is s p e c i a l
03:32 I had an oopsie
04:31 Problems getting it repaired
10:10 I got bitten by the 12V battery discharge bug
16:30 Charge scheduling issues
20:06 A tangent about new car reliability
23:30 Other incidental issues
25:57 I’m really happy with it - and why
32:19 Efficiency (HEAT PUMPS FOR THE WIN)
37:49 Highway Driving Assist
40:35 Two HDA glitches
44:56 A small Android Auto glitch
46:50 The stereo is… okay
48:10 Some controls are buried
49:45 The car really should have a rear wiper
51:25 The Brake Lights Are Bad
58:00 Some HDA behavior could be better
1:05:36 Recap? I guess?

[Nfinittube]

Aging Wheels does a 1 year update 2 months early, Technology Connections does one 2 months late. Big brain move to make these average out.

[timothyweed]

The matte paint is also a big red flag to shops. It's MUCH harder to blend matte paint and a lot of shops just don't have the level of craftsmanship to properly blend paint work.

[TheRogueWolf]

Y'know, this seems like a good place to complain about how manufacturers seem to be desperate to give drivers more reasons to look away from the road. Everything's touch-screen or capacitive; it's getting hard to even find a replacement radio unit that has a volume knob. Being able to feel and activate something with your fingertips is pretty freakin' important!

[randomrocket]

43:33 fun fact about the max speed setting, if you slam the pedal to the ground really quick, the car will override the max speed setting and let you punch it in case you need to do something evasive.

[Candisa]

I get two rules out of this that basically are true for any kind of car from any manufacturer:
- Getting the latest and greatest is cool but maybe wait for two model years if you don't want to deal with the bugs
- Get a simple colour with a shiny clear coat if you want it to be easy to maintain/repair

[TheBitGuy]

I rented a Kia EV6 for a few days (the sister car to the Ioniq 5) and I thought it was a great car. Only trouble is, ironically, I thought it was too big. I'm honestly not sure what my next car is going to be because I want an EV, but all of the current offerings are very large.

[TelekinesisStudios]

The Android Auto glitch may actually be a USB port glitch. It's pretty well-documented that some early HI5s got either a bad batch of ports, or they were poorly installed. If you take it in to the dealer, they can swap it our for you quickly, and that issue should go away.

[TheBenCrazy]

Just watched Aging Wheels going over his experience with the Polestar Polestar 2 at the year mark and glad to see a video of how the Ioniq 5 has been treating you at the year mark!

[ScottTancock]

The radar sensors on the front of a car are usually mmWave sensors which use the 60-108 GHz frequency band. These frequencies are heavily reflected/absorbed by water, so a few mm of snow/ice will be enough to stop them working.

[johannessteffens]

Great as usual! I own an Ioniq5 for nine months now and love it just as much. A little note on level 0 regen: It is actually recommended to use it once in a while because otherwise corrosion can accumulate on the breaking disks. This might be more relevant in humid climates but it can actually become bad enough for premature (and expensive) disk replacement. Level 0 regen abrades the disks to keep them in good shape. I use it once in about 1...2 months.

[MaDeuce]

You can buy attachments for pressure washers for cleaning the undercarriage

[ColtaineCrows]

About the radar and snow, in my experience, yes those 2-3 mm of snow will knock out the front assist radar. It happens on all trucks equipped with it we serve at our shop, it happens with all our service and rental vans, it happens with every car brand I've test driven which is most of the European and Asian ones. Basically if you get wet claddy snow your radar gets blocked.

[scott]

I've made it a personal rule to never have a special paint. The reality is that I have enough in my life to worry about, and as amazing matte paint looks I know for a fact I'd be stressing out over it daily. Part of the reason why I like a basic white but... thanks to Honda, I needed my roof repainted because they can't do white without flaking off in sheets.

[benanderson]

My EV6 is also about as old as your Ioniq 5 so I'll play along with the video :)

7:00 I honestly think you would've had a much easier time if you had a normal coat of paint. When I got my EV6 my dealer actually talked me out of buying the same matte paint (I got white instead) for this exact reason. No one likes working on it.

8:40 when I took my EV6 in to get a software update (before OTA was ready) I actually set the car to valet mode before handing it over. Kia's version of the same app, "Kia Connect" told me when the car was started, the fastest it drove and how long it was on for all in real-time whilst I sat and waited in the dealership with a cup of tea.

14:20 the boot being open means the car's system stay active. I've had this happen in multiple cars, not just my current EV. In my Kia, it actually comes up on the Dashboard (and it used to do the same in my Optima) that the battery will be discharging because you've not allowed the computer to shut-down. After a couple of updates to my Kia, if you wait for long enough with the car unlocked you'll eventually get the shut-down animation on the central dash screen.

16:45 I charge between 00:30 to 04:30. My Kia did the opposite and it'd quietly abandon the charge schedule and jut start charging immediately! I'd have to stop the charge, unplug the cable, set the schedule and then start again. Mine works fine now, so I'm guessing an OTA was installed one night.

22:55 My Brother-in-law has a Jaguar iPace EV400 and it's been extremely reliable so far (touch wood). My Brother's Tesla Model 3 DM has been the opposite, needing a new radar module, new passenger side window motor and new boot motor within the first, what, year and a half? It's a Shanghai built model, too, which is supposed to be "better" than the California models.

26:00 I'm elated with my EV6, too! (Basically the same car). After having a Mustang and an Optima, I was done with traditional saloon and coupé body styles. I moved out of my parents house with the Optima and that was PAINFUL. Had to use my dad's then Qashqai to haul stuff around (he has a Niro EV now).

28:25 www.carsized.com :)

29:15 it's why I got the AWD EV6. Fast and it being more planted with a wider track means it drives closer to my old Mustang GT than many people probably realise (it helps that the European version I have is 2cm lower than the US version, too).

32:50 I average 3.4mi/kwh. The best I got on the motorway in my EV6 in summer is 3.9mi/kwh, which is, frankly, excellent. I don't have the heat pump so I abuse eco and "driver-only" heat mode in winter (got to -7c/19.4f this winter and I was still able to get around 2.5mi/kwh on the commute to work).

42:10 That's the camera. I've had the same errors pop-up on my EV6 because the camera was blocked. Maybe the weird chrome finish was blinding the camera on your Hyundai and swamping it out with pure white.

45:45 Maybe it's the USB cable. That happened to my phone and it stopped once I got a much higher quality cable.

48:17 This is why I massively prefer the interior of my EV6. The heated seats and wheel have physical buttons (but can also be controlled with voice) and the climate has physical knobs to turn for heat. In your Ioniq 5, press the voice button and say "driver's seat warmer level 1/2/3" and it'll do it for you. Same with "turn on/off the heated steering wheel" for, well, the wheel.

50:00 The air curtain thing feels more true for my EV6, which has a steep rake to the glass. I've never had to clear that off. Even in snow and salt I just hit the window heater and start driving and it all slips off effortlessly. It even helps with the rain.

51:45 I think it's based on the amount of re-gen the car is pulling in. If the "charge" bar is over a certain limit then the break lights will activate. That's what I've noticed with my EV6 when driving at night, even in iPedal. It's weird the Kia does that when the Hyundai doesn't.

55:20 Level 0 is meant as a true "off" to let the car coast like a traditional car would when freewheeling; you need it for very bad weather conditions. I use level 3 on B roads, level 1 on motorways and A roads, and iPedal in traffic (and if it's really bad traffic, I turn on auto steer and radar cruise and it takes all the stress out of stop and go).

57:30 In the rest of the world, the lower line of "pixels" are amber. So instead of the rear lights being four squares tall with break lights two rows tall, the international models have lights three rows tall, breaks one row tall, and then a one row tall amber strip at the bottom. Instead of the centre break row being brighter then the outer light, the entire three rows become the same brightness. The amber strip is on both the hatch and the body.

59:30 yes, lane keep will still be active. Weird you don't get an audible warning, though. On the EV6 it will actually make a "ding" and flash the steering wheel icon. I don't have the side camera and mine still works even when auto steer is off.

1:00:00 when NAV is active it will use sign recognition and the sat nav to keep your car at the correct speed limit. Drive the speed limit, turn on HDA, when Nav turns green it will now maintain safe speeds according to both signage and upcoming corners and traffic.

1:02:00 weirdly enough, this is fixed in my Kia. If you check the instrument binnacle whilst you're indicating to change lanes, the "distance" automatically crushes itself down to its lowest setting temporarily. It then slowly accelerates up to your posted speed, but slower than the car in front so your distance will be reached without you holding up traffic. I set mine to "4", FWIW.

1:03:50 it'll be the "crunching" of the distance. Maybe it's a bug with the i5 and not the EV6?

I'd also buy this car again without second thought.

[jumbleumble]

I like how comprehensive this is. The Ioniq 5 just has that aesthetic that gets peoples eyes and having been presented solutions here to the problems it could have, the ioniq 5 has got my heart.

[sketchsketchsketchsketch]

The “NAV” indicator is there to tell you that the navigation map-based automatic speed change feature is available. It turns green when it is actually slowing you down on a curve. Otherwise, it is white (in my EV6 at least) when it’s available but not active. (If you turn off the navigation based speed change function, the “NAV” indicator never appears, even if you’re on a freeway with HDA2 active.)

[Sunday_Woodward]

“I see cars as appliances.”
-Nissan Figaro Owner

[projektdotnet]

For charge scheduling, I'd look into using home automation to turn the charger on/off. My wife's Plug-In hybrid has a Level 1 charger for it, which is more than sufficient for her vehicle. The housing we're in is older and has not enough amperage to run everything at once, so I use a z-wave plug (rated for the same max as the outlet it's in) and HomeAssistant to enable/disable the charger as needed which has solved that particular issue. Similar to what you recommended with the automated breakers in your home electrification video.

[maicydownton]

We got an Ioniq 5 late 2022, and unlike you we've had a very cold and snowy winter, snowiest in a while. We did manage 130 miles in ~10-20 F weather. It was our first long trip, and we were played it safe and relied on the heated seats to save charge. Battery went from 100% to 20%. Not gonna lie, it was a scary ride and I prayed that the Electrify America station worked once we got there. But all was well and I'm glad to know how it does in the cold!

[joevwgti.]

Visually, your car is exactly the one I'd like. As it turns out, most Subaru Forester owners(2015) will end up in that model. I just like a box on wheels, it makes sense. I'm hopeful they'll add a rear wiper one day. I continue to follow your progress updates.