It appears 160 Cupra Borns have been recalled. These are all undelivered cars. They all have a steering column fault. Our dealer SMC Woking will offer us a loan car to enable us to trade in our ICE car. No idea when the steering column fault will be fixed. That's quite generous of SMC. They were sh...

Confirmed with dealer my Born is currently at status 38, port of exit released for shipping but currently delayed due to backlog with estimated 3 weeks from now. Ordered back end of June and was quoted 1st January originally which always felt like a placeholder, got an update in November this would...

I suspect this is a new thing since the dealerships became a place for window shopping and collection, with the car considered to be ordered direct from Cupra themselves, with a bit of dealership interaction. This wasn't the case a year ago, it's a new thing Cupra have brought in - seemingly to remo...

True, that’s exactly what I’ve done 3,000 miler. What I wasn’t aware of, they come standard with 4 years warranty and no obligatory servicing, so factor the saved servicing costs in makes it cheaper again! I can’t justify the servicing bills on EV’s being so high when most of the checks would be do...

Hope the Tesla was bought 2nd hand - would not want to be financing the amount of depreciation those are suffering right now. Lots of cheap 2-3 year old examples around.

with a heavy reliance on Rapid charging - which can be a total PITA A PITA because of the charging infrastructure in the UK, or because of issues with the Born related to fast charging? I've had my Born a couple of weeks now and have only fast charged it once with no issues. The rest of the time I'...

Bird Shite marks all modern cars with water based paints, you can't get away from it, no matter the marque. If it does leave a mark after its all washed off, if easily buffs out with a polisher. Hasn't happened with the Borns we have, but one of our ID3s looked to have been in outside storage when w...

Got an agreed price with a dealer, in principle. Will be going on 27 Mar 2023 if there's no private interest at £32k. A little less than i'd hoped, but as the Motorway.co.uk price has dropped £700 in a week (£31200) and a surprising number of large dealership groups are not buying EVs in at the mome...

I was going to fit them to leave windows open slightly in summer for less noise & save on using air con but they apparently don't reduce wind noise. The general rule for Summer ventilation is: Below 30mph, open a window, above that, use the aircon. Somewhere between 30 and 40, the aerodynamic d...

I thought wind deflectors were just for old fellas who smoke in their car and need the windows open at all times to get rid of their ash/butt's.