Kev555
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- Your Mercedes
- 2011 vito 113 CDI OM651 W639 panel van
Test Drove one of these last year severnless and was very impressed what you got for the money. I drove it like I would my own car with air con on all the time and not attempting to conserve electrical power and only got 180 miles to the charge but with a bit of training according to others you'd have no bother getting 200+ miles from a charge. Only issue I found was it was a bit prone to steaming up with the HVAC system. Due to lack of public charging infrastructure in NI we eventually went for the HS PHEV. Car arrived two weeks ago after 6 month wait and already due to our proximity to wife's work who's the regular driver we have made significant savings running on full EV mode. I bought a Hypervolt Charger as I got caught out not realising the grant was ending in March but ended up saving money by doing it myself as I'm wary of Gov grants saving money anyways. Very impressed by the charger and company gives a £50 discount to NHS workers which we have taken advantage of with the wife being an NHS employee. We also Saved buying the car as with the Gov EV grant and MG's Infinity scheme for NHS workers, Emergency service workers and any companies with over 500 employees as far as I can remember about the scheme details left the new car on the street at 27K with a 7 year warranty. We would have spent in the region of 20-22K purchasing a diesel vehicle so being wary of anything Chinese the temptation was too much to resist at the new car price. Car is very comfortable and only issue ive found so far is prob 4th gear change which theres a terrible lag taking forever to shift but hopefully sorted in the future with a software update. I was taking to a friend visiting from Aussie last night and I mentioned the car, Apparently MG has been out there a longer and he told me "keep it two years and get shot of it" LOLJust thought I would put a piccy of my first ever brand new EV car.
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Only put 600 miles on it so far, really pleased with it, had to take it back last week to have the option alloys fitted as they were on back order.
Also had tints fitted all round