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Thanks JeanDealer didn't give me a date, waiting for the software update. Didn't want to promise anything. I think before half March. A good date for me would be March 3!
So do we only have 2 people (Jean and EP) with known customer cars at dealerships?Dealer didn't give me a date, waiting for the software update. Didn't want to promise anything. I think before half March. A good date for me would be March 3!
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congratulations on being one of the first.Got a call this morning from my "Hedin" dealer in Belgium, that his cars and customer cars arrived yesterday (Friday 17/02), including mine. So I went this afternoon after "my job / paid hobby" to have a look. I didn't make many pictures, but I can go back if somebody has specific questions (and if I have time). What did I see, learn, ask, etc. ... all comment on "first sight":
OK, two pictures now:
- I ordered a petrol trialmaster sela green with some accessories
- the car is very well finished
- the doors seem to close smoothly (was not the case in a prototype I saw).
- no mistakes, everything I ordered was delivered: privacy glasses, safari windows, integrated winch, spare wheel storage box, including the 4 included L-track fittings)
- accessories were not delivered yet (roof bars, off road recovery kit), but should be delivered "soon" (well, how soon is a mystery, same as the software update)
- the official documents of the car were not yet delivered to my dealer, will come through Hedin Switzerland
- the car was still in transport mode (software setting that makes it impossible to drive the car at normal speeds)
- the ignition slot for the key is indeed (Left Hand Steering) at the right side of the steering wheel
- the key is quite OK, and is indeed flipping in and out, so I will not damage my trialmaster jacket
- Ineos will contact me directly for the jacket, Hedin isn't involved in it. I don't know how
- the sound of the motor is relatively quite, but of course I didn't drive the car
- I could connect my phone (android) to the car, but we didn't find how to get Waze on the screen, even connecting the phone with a USB cable
- I started the motor, and the only fault code was tire pressure (pressure too high, transport and storage mode), I was sitting in the driver position and airbag was "on"
- I asked what the software issue was, and they didn't know, but could tell me that Hedin Switzerland had installed a new software version, but that it wasn't OK yet
- they still could not load the INEOS software on their computers (software needed to remove transport mode from the cars, and of other tweaks) but they guess the problem is on their side.
- I tried to remove and put back the safari windows (I had seen the INEOS video on this forum), but they had to explain me how to do it, but quite straightforward once you know it. (some sliding part in the opening mechanism).
- The tires have the "white lettering" on the outside
- I now see the @Stu_Barnes comment on the dipstick, I forgot to look, but this is a petrol engine
- I was the first customer in Belgium to see his (my) car (@Stu_Barnes: do I get a badge
- one (and only one) of the delivered cars was for a woman!
- the two guys at Hedin (very friendly by the way) were discovering details together with me, including some functions.
- they could not give me an answer about user manuals (paper or online), there was no paper manual in the car. No papers at all
- Well, only one paper on the inside of the window with my order number and a VIN (Vehicle Identification Number, some here know my love for abbreviations
): F0013xy ...well, only the last part of the VIN number (I replaced the last two numbers by xy). I didn't look at the first part.
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I didn't! But I put it on my "to do list" if I visit my dealer again, because I would suppose some of the vehicles at Hedin Belgium have it.
True.
There’s also Deepblue in Switzerland who’s posted photos of his car at the dealer, the first I think.
I thought, and I could be wrong, that in UK and EU regulations the emergency call button ( and hence tracking location for emergency response) should be such that it cannot be disabled by the driverWhat???
Yes they won't disable it I have asked looks like the wire snippers are coming out.What???
Porsche will remove the function so will BMW if you ask
At least at Becker Tiemann in (Einbeck), Krüll (Hamburg), Lueg (Essen) are customers vehicles as well.
Is it killing you to be so close to the finish line? I’m a terrible “waiter” - I’d be going mad, and would be at the dealer daily.Got a call this morning from my "Hedin" dealer in Belgium, that his cars and customer cars arrived yesterday (Friday 17/02), including mine. So I went this afternoon after "my job / paid hobby" to have a look. I didn't make many pictures, but I can go back if somebody has specific questions (and if I have time). What did I see, learn, ask, etc. ... all comment on "first sight":
OK, two pictures now:
- I ordered a petrol trialmaster sela green with some accessories
- the car is very well finished
- the doors seem to close smoothly (was not the case in a prototype I saw).
- no mistakes, everything I ordered was delivered: privacy glasses, safari windows, integrated winch, spare wheel storage box, including the 4 included L-track fittings)
- accessories were not delivered yet (roof bars, off road recovery kit), but should be delivered "soon" (well, how soon is a mystery, same as the software update)
- the official documents of the car were not yet delivered to my dealer, will come through Hedin Switzerland
- the car was still in transport mode (software setting that makes it impossible to drive the car at normal speeds)
- the ignition slot for the key is indeed (Left Hand Steering) at the right side of the steering wheel
- the key is quite OK, and is indeed flipping in and out, so I will not damage my trialmaster jacket
- Ineos will contact me directly for the jacket, Hedin isn't involved in it. I don't know how
- the sound of the motor is relatively quite, but of course I didn't drive the car
- I could connect my phone (android) to the car, but we didn't find how to get Waze on the screen, even connecting the phone with a USB cable
- I started the motor, and the only fault code was tire pressure (pressure too high, transport and storage mode), I was sitting in the driver position and airbag was "on"
- I asked what the software issue was, and they didn't know, but could tell me that Hedin Switzerland had installed a new software version, but that it wasn't OK yet
- they still could not load the INEOS software on their computers (software needed to remove transport mode from the cars, and of other tweaks) but they guess the problem is on their side.
- I tried to remove and put back the safari windows (I had seen the INEOS video on this forum), but they had to explain me how to do it, but quite straightforward once you know it. (some sliding part in the opening mechanism).
- The tires have the "white lettering" on the outside
- I now see the @Stu_Barnes comment on the dipstick, I forgot to look, but this is a petrol engine
- I was the first customer in Belgium to see his (my) car (@Stu_Barnes: do I get a badge
- one (and only one) of the delivered cars was for a woman!
- the two guys at Hedin (very friendly by the way) were discovering details together with me, including some functions.
- they could not give me an answer about user manuals (paper or online), there was no paper manual in the car. No papers at all
- Well, only one paper on the inside of the window with my order number and a VIN (Vehicle Identification Number, some here know my love for abbreviations
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do you have French ancestry?
