I am scheduled to take delivery tomorrow or more likely on Wednesday of this week. I am excited about the car but I am also getting more and more worried about the car after reading this forum for the last several weeks. What am I getting myself into? A great car? An expensive headache?
I have read opinions on the car such as: no car is perfect, all have issues etc. My Toyota NEVER had any issues whatsoever. It turned on and went and turned on again etc. This car is miles away from my Toyota as far as tech, but still. Cars should be able to perform the basics: turn on, go, charge (in this case) repeat.
So, like the title says - has anyone had nothing but smooth sailing?
I've had mine for a month and a couple of days. I love the car. The ride is smooth and quiet and so comfy. The climate setting is amazing for warming the car so quickly (if yours has that!).
I live in New England and it's handling the snow so well. The one pedal driving (OPD) is great - except in the snow (rumors this might be 'fixed' in upcoming OTA). Then it did a bit of slipping, but without OPD on, it handles beautifully in the snow.
The biggest issue I've had is the infotainment/app issues everyone's talking about. I picked up my car on a Tuesday night and that Wednesday none of the gps/lte stuff worked, then it all worked on Thursday. And that was the last day until a week ago tomorrow. I had an appointment with the local Volvo to take it in last Wednesday and I cancelled it after the whole thing started working again. (The app doesn't work - I'm stuck in the needing to delete the app and factory reset the infotainment - I'm not ready lol).
The worst part of the whole month: Okay, gps doesn't work - I just used my phone. But the Climate timers didn't work either and winter really set in (First World probs). Also, the Charge Limit would not work, so we did hit 100% a couple of times.
Now that all of it's working (minus the app), it's almost everything I wanted. When we test drove the XC40 TS5 (they didn't have any EV ones), the infotainment center had a lot more options (themes/backgrounds - just shiny things), and a few other settings that do not exist on this system. I hope those come in soon - I don't see why we didn't start with them as they are already in other cars.
Anyway - I love it, I don't regret buying it. I drive a lot - A month in and 1,700 miles. I've been reading the forums since last year I was so excited.