I got my T6.1 in November 2019 and it’s driving me mad!
1. The underside of the van (heat shield?) has been coming away since a couple of months after I bought it. Going over speed bumps I hear scraping, people are always telling me somethings hanging off the van etc.
2. The radio doesn’t f-ing work! DAB reception is awful and I’ll spend most of the time in silence with the odd couple of minutes of radio before is disappears again.
3. So the answer is to listen via my phone. But Android auto doesn’t work properly and any audio from the phone won’t play via the van’s speakers. So no Spotify, no Apple Music, no podcasts, no radio.
4. So, for the first time in about 10yrs, I bought an iPhone. That’s when I discovered that, when playing music or making a call, after a couple of minutes, it starts crackling. And after a minute more, the caller is so distorted, I just have to hang up.
5. The van keeps entering some sort of limited power mode. I’ll be driving down the motorway, cruise on and suddenly the cruise will cancel and the orange coil light will be flashing and, unless going downhill, the van will slowly lose speed as the power is limited. On a long journey at the weekend (about 300 miles) it did it four times. Pulling into services and turning the engine off resets it.
6. And then this morning I got in the van, turned the key and the display said something like “accident detection, making emergency call.” No cancel button, taking the key out did nothing and then, from the ether “999 emergency, which service do you require?”. I had to apologise and wait for her to end the call as I still couldn’t work out how to hang up.
This van cost a small fortune - it’s supposed to be a premium brand. The poor technology and various faults have made me lose all confidence in the van and I’m seriously considering selling it and going for some other brand.
1. The underside of the van (heat shield?) has been coming away since a couple of months after I bought it. Going over speed bumps I hear scraping, people are always telling me somethings hanging off the van etc.
2. The radio doesn’t f-ing work! DAB reception is awful and I’ll spend most of the time in silence with the odd couple of minutes of radio before is disappears again.
3. So the answer is to listen via my phone. But Android auto doesn’t work properly and any audio from the phone won’t play via the van’s speakers. So no Spotify, no Apple Music, no podcasts, no radio.
4. So, for the first time in about 10yrs, I bought an iPhone. That’s when I discovered that, when playing music or making a call, after a couple of minutes, it starts crackling. And after a minute more, the caller is so distorted, I just have to hang up.
5. The van keeps entering some sort of limited power mode. I’ll be driving down the motorway, cruise on and suddenly the cruise will cancel and the orange coil light will be flashing and, unless going downhill, the van will slowly lose speed as the power is limited. On a long journey at the weekend (about 300 miles) it did it four times. Pulling into services and turning the engine off resets it.
6. And then this morning I got in the van, turned the key and the display said something like “accident detection, making emergency call.” No cancel button, taking the key out did nothing and then, from the ether “999 emergency, which service do you require?”. I had to apologise and wait for her to end the call as I still couldn’t work out how to hang up.
This van cost a small fortune - it’s supposed to be a premium brand. The poor technology and various faults have made me lose all confidence in the van and I’m seriously considering selling it and going for some other brand.
