...well, the deed is done, and I am now the proud owner of a metallic beige pebble grey, near-top-of-the-range, XC40.
It's an odd time to be buying (or even selling) cars, and the experience has followed that line. It was ordered back at the beginning of June, and we and the dealer have exchanged but a few emails and three 'phone calls since, and in the whole process they've had my signature once at the start, and once at the end (no endless sheaves of paper for GAP, body protection, tyre insurance, etc. etc. etc. (though I think they've now realised that they missed me!))
The salesman must have spent at least 30 seconds looking at my p/ex back in June, and other than looking across the forecourt today to check I'd dropped it off, that was it. In the meantime, the WBAC price has gone up by getting on £2,000! I factored a bit of that into the deal, got them to underwrite a value whatever the delay, and they didn't stick me with any of the two price rises on the Volvo that have taken place since (in very short order). In addition, I'm told the supply of similar cars has now just about dried up (the one I've got being in a scheduled dealer build-slot when I ordered it).
I was quite amused (not) when they tried to charge me £500 extra on the balance because they couldn't trace my deposit. (They then asked me to check it had actually gone through the bank - which it had - and ultimately trusted me to pay up if it hadn't). It has no doubt been booked against another vehicle.
In addition, since my bank has no means of pre-authorising, I fully expected the balance to bounce, and was ready with the direct line to the fraud department. Every other large payment thus made has dutifully been rejected - this time it sailed immediately through. I nearly fell off the chair!
So, other than missing the pre-loaded data sim to work all the in-car online stuff, everything appears to be as expected, with no missing functionality due to absent chips. (I'd just bought a large capacity data sim for other reasons, so all the online function is tested and working OK, and I've been promised a replacement in the post).
The tyre pressures were a bit high as well (baseline recommended at 33 all round, but with an "Eco" setting of 38, they were all at 39.5. I reduced them to 35.5 (and then had to re-train the TPMS) and subjectively they seem a bit better.
I wonder what else they've missed on the PDI?
I have a longish journey planned for the middle of next week, so the verdict is going to be a bit more definitive by then, but, initial impressions are reasonable. It seems slightly less "planted" than the BMW, but with a better ride, and rather less road and wind noise (TBH, I also think the change in tyre pressures, and a dial-down of some of the electronics has reduced a bit of the handling gap with the BMW). I'm pretty sure I can take the compromise, anyway.
The seats are, at first impressions, rather better than the BMW's (where I had the better-rated sports-seats), and they certainly feel more like cow than the BMW (or MB, for that matter). Fiendishly clever these Chinese.
I'm expecting to take a hit on fuel-consumption, but frankly, with my mileage, it doesn't matter other than for man-maths.
The remaining concern was the electronics, and manipulation thereof. Frankly, I'm glad that the one "Driver Support" option I was considering became unavailable due to the chip issues. I don't think I could take much more "electro-nag" and have dialled down much of what I still have. Thankfully, first impressions from the test drive have proven reliable - much of the everyday interaction can be achieved by steering-wheel or other physical-button controls (with a fall-back to "voice"). There is an awful lot of other "stuff" you almost need a degree in astrophysics for, which is quite "incestuous" and largely accessed via touch-screen interfaces. I've just about got to grips with it, but remain rather unconvinced with swathes of capability that is made quite easy (and so far, attractive) to turn off.
...oh, and the audio seems rather better than the BMW as well.
So far, so good, but the proof of the pudding will be in the longer journey.
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