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5 Months with my IONIQ 5, not fond of it...

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Hi everyone,

i got my RWD IONIQ 5 with all options but the AWD system and 20" wheels in Dezember 21 and would like to write my humble review here, of course im complete open minded to opnions but i have to say i'm more disapointed with the car then i thought, and maybe this post can help future owners.
A bit of myself that maybe can help this post's readers to understand my point of view.
Im a fast car lover (alredy onwed AMGs, a heavily modified Golf GTI, Megane RS, Citroen VTR) so im very open minded about manufactures and construction quality, but above that im a family guy and my son was born at the end of 2020 so i needed a bigger car, thats why i decided to go to an SUV, and i can charge my car free of cost thats the reason why i opted for an 100% electric car. And with all that in mind the IONIQ5 was for me the best Cost x Benefit i could find.
I work as a Infotainment software developer for in the Automotive section in Germany that gives me a bit of know-how at some aspects.

Let me start with the good points:
1: Performance: For a 2 Ton+ car and 200+ Horsepower the car has a reasonable performance for overtakes and cruising in Highways, the top speed on the Cluster is limited at 191 Km/h.
2: Confort: The car is extremly confortable and fits perfectly 4 adults and an Isofix 360° turnable Child Seat. The leather seats are great + the panoramic sunroof
3: Charging is really good, at the company that i work there are another electric cars (eTron, eUP, Taycan, Nissan Leaf and others) and in an CCS adapter the IONIQ5 was the 2° fastest at the same conditions
4: The design, i think it is really ahead of its time and a neck breaker (although it reminds me of an PS5 :ROFLMAO:)
5: The AR on the HUD is really nice

Now why this car annoys me with the time:

1: Persistence of configurations on the system:
  • The HUD position are after 3 or 4 new bus cycles reseted, deactivation of the line changing assistence this is not always reproduceable but after i deactivated it, it activated itself again 2 or 3 times by itself.
  • The Bluelink/Profile settings mixed up my configurations with my wifes profile once (i entered the car started it accepting the therms from my profile) and the seat position and colors schemes from my wife were loaded.
  • At media, i deactivated the Media auto start, that works ok since the radio doesnt start automatically but instead the Ambient Sound starts sometimes, its really creepy to enter the car and caffe people talking out of the blue :D (i always use CarPlay), the fact that Wireless CarPlay is not available it also sad.
  • When im alone i listen to loud music, but when im with the little kid it cant be that loud, thats why i activated the confort volume of media, but still sometimes the media starts at the volume 60+ and i ahve to activated it again.
2: The Bose sound system is really disappointing, the back speakers are only set to a fraction of the total volume
3: The availability of reposition parts, i was unfortunatelly in a accident and wait already 3 months (without estimated delivery date) for a headlight, front bumber, left led stripe, bonnet, and some other things) The car drives, but without ACC and left turning signal. (The attention that this car draws on the street with the damage front cant be a good image for Hyundai, a lot of people mostly other IONIQ drives already spoke me on about it)
4: Seatbelt from the back seats are always making noise with the C-Column
5: Auto-Hold shuts itself down, so sometimes when i park the car rolls down a bit just when people are getting out.
6: Why in this world this car doesnt have a rear window wiper? in rainy and snowy days it is impossible to see anything
7: On Sport mode if the media is off, the electric motor causes interference in the front speakers wit a really high pitch noise.
8: The charging port open system is just poorly designed, my wife always have problems opening it as it needs a certain amount of strenght/feeling

Neutral observation: The relax function of the seats are FOR ME useless, is not that confortable for a long time since the leg supports are too short and doesnt go all the way up (I'm 1,90m)

Fact: The negative points of the car are the ones that i have to live with it almost everyday, thats why im disappointed with the car

If i remember anything else i will write it in an topic :D
Want to make clear again, thats my personal opinion. The car doest have any pending updates or recalls, It has ca. 9000km on
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I personally can not get enough of my LR RWD 77.3 kw version. I have just booked my car in for a very nice stereo upgrade that will outperform the Bose system once finished:) 19' wheels are perfect, cloth seats super comfortable, did not need all the bells and whistles. Car has really been great over the 6400km to date w decent efficiency
Make sure you take pics of the install and stuff to help members out!
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Shortage of car/body parts is a problem to any new car model not just the Ioniq 5.
A true sentence; I had a 02 month wait for parts for my IONIQ 03
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typical observations that people make, yes they DID NOT RTFM.
Please let me know where this SYSTEM issues are listed on the Manual, and please let me know if this manual states that high frequency noises will be heard from the speakers if the media is muted.
That are technical all day usage observations. I know the bose sound system is setted up like this for back seat confort, but that doesnt mean i shouldnt think its total crap.

Want to make clear again, thats my personal opinion. The car doest have any pending updates or recalls, It has ca. 9000km on
The Auto Hold has different effects depending on how you brake. I have a left hand drive I5 and the left monitor left side botton left is the auto hold symbol. Coming to a stop with a light pressing of the brake the Auto Hold icon will stay white - this means releasing the brake ( without accelerating ) will cause the car to slowing creep. However coming to a stop and depressing the braking further will make the Auto hold icon turn green - this means releasing the brake wont make the car creep anymore . So swapping from light / deeper brake depresses depending on what you want.
That i know, my problem is that this function get shut off by itself, it doesnt even appear on the bottom left corner of the display, so i have to press the button again. Today i stopped at a traffic light, pressing the break all the way and the car still rolled down, because the function was disabled.
My parking brake auto enables when I turn the car off.
it's a setting in the car
Hi everyone,

i got my RWD IONIQ 5 with all options but the AWD system and 20" wheels in Dezember 21 and would like to write my humble review here, of course im complete open minded to opnions but i have to say i'm more disapointed with the car then i thought, and maybe this post can help future owners.
A bit of myself that maybe can help this post's readers to understand my point of view.
Im a fast car lover (alredy onwed AMGs, a heavily modified Golf GTI, Megane RS, Citroen VTR) so im very open minded about manufactures and construction quality, but above that im a family guy and my son was born at the end of 2020 so i needed a bigger car, thats why i decided to go to an SUV, and i can charge my car free of cost thats the reason why i opted for an 100% electric car. And with all that in mind the IONIQ5 was for me the best Cost x Benefit i could find.
I work as a Infotainment software developer for in the Automotive section in Germany that gives me a bit of know-how at some aspects.

Let me start with the good points:
1: Performance: For a 2 Ton+ car and 200+ Horsepower the car has a reasonable performance for overtakes and cruising in Highways, the top speed on the Cluster is limited at 191 Km/h.
2: Confort: The car is extremly confortable and fits perfectly 4 adults and an Isofix 360° turnable Child Seat. The leather seats are great + the panoramic sunroof
3: Charging is really good, at the company that i work there are another electric cars (eTron, eUP, Taycan, Nissan Leaf and others) and in an CCS adapter the IONIQ5 was the 2° fastest at the same conditions
4: The design, i think it is really ahead of its time and a neck breaker (although it reminds me of an PS5 :ROFLMAO:)
5: The AR on the HUD is really nice

Now why this car annoys me with the time:

1: Persistence of configurations on the system:
  • The HUD position are after 3 or 4 new bus cycles reseted, deactivation of the line changing assistence this is not always reproduceable but after i deactivated it, it activated itself again 2 or 3 times by itself.
  • The Bluelink/Profile settings mixed up my configurations with my wifes profile once (i entered the car started it accepting the therms from my profile) and the seat position and colors schemes from my wife were loaded.
  • At media, i deactivated the Media auto start, that works ok since the radio doesnt start automatically but instead the Ambient Sound starts sometimes, its really creepy to enter the car and caffe people talking out of the blue :D (i always use CarPlay), the fact that Wireless CarPlay is not available it also sad.
  • When im alone i listen to loud music, but when im with the little kid it cant be that loud, thats why i activated the confort volume of media, but still sometimes the media starts at the volume 60+ and i ahve to activated it again.
2: The Bose sound system is really disappointing, the back speakers are only set to a fraction of the total volume
3: The availability of reposition parts, i was unfortunatelly in a accident and wait already 3 months (without estimated delivery date) for a headlight, front bumber, left led stripe, bonnet, and some other things) The car drives, but without ACC and left turning signal. (The attention that this car draws on the street with the damage front cant be a good image for Hyundai, a lot of people mostly other IONIQ drives already spoke me on about it)
4: Seatbelt from the back seats are always making noise with the C-Column
5: Auto-Hold shuts itself down, so sometimes when i park the car rolls down a bit just when people are getting out.
6: Why in this world this car doesnt have a rear window wiper? in rainy and snowy days it is impossible to see anything
7: On Sport mode if the media is off, the electric motor causes interference in the front speakers wit a really high pitch noise.
8: The charging port open system is just poorly designed, my wife always have problems opening it as it needs a certain amount of strenght/feeling

Neutral observation: The relax function of the seats are FOR ME useless, is not that confortable for a long time since the leg supports are too short and doesnt go all the way up (I'm 1,90m)

Fact: The negative points of the car are the ones that i have to live with it almost everyday, thats why im disappointed with the car

If i remember anything else i will write it in an topic :D
Want to make clear again, thats my personal opinion. The car doest have any pending updates or recalls, It has ca. 9000km on
Yeah, I've given up changing the HUD back to standard mode, and have just accepted that the car itself has decided it wants to be in augmented mode. The software setup on the IONIQ 5 is just not in the same league as in the Mercedes and BMW had before them, unfortunately.

I also find the Bose system to be a little underwhelming. There's nowhere near enough bass to give the techno any real oomph.

The lack of a rear windscreen wiper has been discussed to death, but yes it's a terrible design decision.

Other than that I've not really experienced any of the issues you have, and after almost seven months absolutely love my P45.
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Please let me know where this SYSTEM issues are listed on the Manual, and please let me know if this manual states that high frequency noises will be heard from the speakers if the media is muted.
That are technical all day usage observations. I know the bose sound system is setted up like this for back seat confort, but that doesnt mean i shouldnt think its total crap.
it is very simple, you take the manual sit in your car and customise it how you want it.
for example, If you want your bose system loud just configure the settings. If you want to change interior colour do so.
if your seatbelts rattle, read this forum and buy yourself silicon cover, velcro patch or put your seatbelts neatly.
if your windows are dirty, wipe them or use the rear camera button while you drive as explained in manual.
There are so many workarounds but hey you find them only if you read the bible.
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Since you focus on things in your field. Here is a good one for you.

They missed an important use case for updating the Navi and audio via USB. Once the update is done it throws up a prompt about the new features. If instead of taking the prompt, the user instead removes the USB drive the program is not finished, and somewhere after the prompt it either is still using the usb or has set a state that does not clear.

So I could see that the version info was updated but Pgm was in error mode, "I don't have my files, and/or they are corrupt. Go back and fix the USB files etc.." Navi could not be switched but I noticed that you could go to the EV screen where you see the map trying to launch but it is just displaying a loading graphic forever If the USB was not inserted. But if you stopped and started the car with the USB in, that map would finish loading on the EV screen. So once it loaded there with the USB in, I then shut down the car and removed the USB drive, and restarted the car.

Car is now happy to launch Navi with this but I have no idea if everything is properly updated. There is no way to reach tech support. You just get the BlueLink support that works with conjecture only.
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