u/dessskris

EDIT: ffs misspelled Kia Niro in the title but can't edit it now

Hello, we are looking for our second EV. My partner uses the Hyundai Ioniq 5 to commute to work, I work from home so the second car would mostly be for shop runs but also 50-60 miles driving on the weekend (mostly motorway) and occasionally a farther out road trip on my own so I'd like to have 250+ miles WLTP range.

We were initially looking at Renault 4 (thought the Renault 5 felt too small) but popped in to the Kia dealership and just found out the Kia EV2 Air is cheaper with the electric car grant.

Could either go PCP over 3 years: £8k deposit and roughly £140 monthly and balloon payment of £13k. Or loan: £8k deposit and roughly £360 monthly to own outright. The APR from Kia is actually pretty good and would be cheaper than taking a loan from Tesco Bank, and if I've done the maths correctly, if we could sell it for £12k after 3 years it'd be a better deal over PCP?

But why would we sell it after 3 years? I'm not really the kind of person who would change cars every 3-4 years. Think we'd keep it until it's dead really.

Where I'm thrown off is we could buy another Hyundai Ioniq 5 for £13.5k (used, high mileage but it doesn't matter to us as we bought ours the same and the battery health was really good, and have had no issues). It wouldn't be my first choice because it's a big car hence a pain in multi-storey car parks (for me, YMMV).

But we could also get a Kia Niro 2022 or Hyundai Kona 2022 for £11-12k?? They've already gone through the new EV depreciation and would probably still last me 5+ years?

I never understood why anyone would buy or lease brand new but a lot of good EVs only came out this year. But would it make more sense to buy an older EV? How much difference is there in the tech and driving experience etc and is it worth the price?

What would you do if you were in this situation? TIA!

I have a bit of an unusual requirement and I'm open to digital planning instead of physical if this doesn't exist.

I am looking for a weekly planner but perhaps not in the way you normally would define one. I want to look ahead to the rest of the year and plan Week 36, Week 37, Week 38 and so on... Without specifically saying what exactly I have to do Mon-Sun of that week.

So it's more of a high level overview of what I need to accomplish that week in order to be on track with all my business stuff (monthly subscription, event prep, etc)

Does such planner exist? Or if anyone has done something similar, could you share what kind of layout works best for it?

I think I might end up setting something up in Notion but would also welcome inspo on layouts.

Thank you in advance!

Hi everyone, I'm after some advice please. What's the simplest way to make rainbow wax seals? I have been using a glue gun lately but don't think I'd be able to mix 7 colours in it... I do have a wax pourer but still unsure how I'd get 7 colours in one pour?

I need at least 70pcs (don't ask why... alright it's for my monthly sticker club!) so don't want to spend more than 4-5hrs on it tops 😭

An idea I had is maybe print & cut round stickers in rainbow gradient, then make clear seals over it? Do I just use a glue stick for that? So I'd squirt a little bit of clear glue on the sticker then stamp it. Then I'd stick the sticker on my mail. Has anyone done anything similar?

Appreciate any advice from you experts! Figured someone would have done a similar experiment... Thank you!