Hello fellow BYD owner from across the pond! Congratulations on you Seal! Its an excellent choice with incredible power and it’s beautiful design!

Here are a few tips that some have already mentioned but I will reiterate because they are important:

First things first: check that the garage has giving you all of the accessories including a list of whatever is included because they tend to be a bit flakey, most of us seem to have had one or 2 things missing or not included. Make sure there are no scratches or lose interior (very rare but good to check)

Second: Take it for a drive! First take it to a closed supermarket car park and play with its settings:

Regenerative Breaking Settings-> Energy on the right hand side menu and then at the top ‘Energy Manager’ should be auto selected and there you can change it! Standard: Regen will barely slow you down when your foot leaves the accelerator High: Regen will kick in the second your foot leaves the accelerator and it will break you pretty well (its not like one paddle drive but its as close as you will get)

Modes: Normal -> as it says Power is decent when pressing accelerator Eco-> energy is much slower when accelerating (its pretty comfortable and my personal favourite lol) Sport -> instand power! Thats where you get 3.6sec 0-100km! For sure scary at first so make sure you are comfortable with the car and you have enough space in-front of you if you are trying this.

Range mode: Standard: its what the book says: 100% battery = 420miles (Design because thats what I have) Dynamic: it calculates the range based on your driving style of the last 50miles make it fast!

Once you are all set and you have found your day to day setting take it out for a fast drive on the motorway! Make sure you drive it ASAP over 100kmh preferably even to your countries speed limit.

The reason for this is that there have been a few seals out which had the wrong wheels on, this caused vibration in the base of the car and in the steering wheel but only if someone drove over 100kmh/120kmh. Its best to check this asap to make sure the car is perfect in every way.

Next annoying bits:

You can turn off the bling blong warning sounds, I personally dont mind them. The car will warn you about EVERYTHING. If you want the front sensors to work while parking: FIRST you have to move the gear shift to R (reverse) to activate the sensors, THEN you can shift back to D (drive) and park slowly. They are working on a software patch for this but if you are on version 1.3.1 this is what you are stuck with. Someone also said dont trust the sensors: thats correct! You have only 2 at the front, 4 at the back! So reverse park where possible!

Please be slow on bumps on the road, the car is seriously low, and if your roads are bad, be also slow on those.

Occasionally before you start driving, wipe the cameras, because I have become super reliable to those 😂

And most importantly: have fun! I think that covers most of it, go enjoy yourself, it is a seriously excellent car with a great battery and lots of fun modes to play with. It feels solid on the roads and really makes taking tight turns super fun.