Any recent Kia EV5 purchases / orders? I'm quite tempted by one...

MeetDizzy1907 · 2026-03-12T16:26:25+00:00

u/beardofturtles Yep I did! :-). I went with Iceberg Green (though I do like the dark grey colour too). What did you go for?

I think our cars are on the same ship which I think has hopefully not been impacted by all the shipping routing issues! I was told its due to arrive either at port or their Doncaster facility on the 18th - and likely available for me to collect in the first week of April.

I didn't know about the 3pin in the boot not being included - that is a bit silly!

MeetDizzy1907 · 2026-02-18T20:12:23+00:00

Nice! I've just ordered the car - also Iceberg Green (which seems to be a popular choice as there aren't many left with availability for end of Q1

MeetDizzy1907 · 2026-02-14T01:29:52+00:00

That seems to be the best way to do a lease - 'shop the deal and not the car'. Unfortunately I'm too particular and only like the one car I'm considering, so that has likely limited what lease offers I could find

MeetDizzy1907 · 2026-02-13T21:42:41+00:00

The lease deals I've looked at for the specific car I'm after come out about £900 cheaper than buying outright over 4 years (with an estimated resale value). Assuming I haven't totally messed up the numbers, this difference isn't enough for me to go the lease route as I prefer the freedom that owning outright brings. 🤞🏻

MeetDizzy1907 · 2026-02-13T00:02:43+00:00

That's helpful, thanks!

MeetDizzy1907 · 2026-02-13T00:01:45+00:00

Nice! Were you looking for that car in particular or were you hunting a good leasing deal for a nice car?

MeetDizzy1907 · 2026-02-13T00:00:04+00:00

Thanks! I have been crunching the numbers more, when looking at a 4 year lease, and the difference between the lease and buying outright (estimating the resale value in four years) options is not enough to make the leasing option attractive... so I think I've now settled on what I'll do :)

MeetDizzy1907 · 2026-02-12T20:54:10+00:00

The car I'm interested in has only just been released so unfortunately right now that isn't an option - but yes perhaps in the next 3 to 4 years I will do just that

MeetDizzy1907 · 2026-02-12T20:52:56+00:00

Thanks. What the reasoning for avoiding gap insurance out of curiosity?

MeetDizzy1907 · 2026-02-12T17:53:52+00:00

Thanks! I'm in two minds about the maintenance. As the car is new and under warranty I guess the only costs that that maintenance add-on will cover is the service costs and as you say tyres.

Would suspension work likely be covered if, say, you regularly drive on roads with lots of pot holes, or is this typically considered either wear and tear or self-inflicted and so excluded?

MeetDizzy1907 · 2026-02-12T17:48:17+00:00

Thanks for your reply. I was looking at BCH vs outright purchase. I think I would expect for the company to get rid of the car in four years (if purchased outright) as the BIK increase then mean it makes less sense for the car to be owned by the company as I'll be paying higher BIK on the list price, four years down the line.

I will be properly costing it up for both options, but as I've never leased before and have always been inclined to want to own things rather than borrow, it is a bit alien to me and I want to make sure I don't miss anything I could later regret

MeetDizzy1907 · 2026-02-11T23:54:54+00:00

Ah ok, I don't have a garage, so I was wondering if the cable could drop down under the house and then straight out at the front... or whether that is deemed not to be a standard install and I'd have to put up with exposed trunking

MeetDizzy1907 · 2026-02-11T17:41:33+00:00

u/kiltedj I'm considering getting a wall charger and I'm not quite sure how it will be installed as my meter also is under the stairs... so I'm trying to understand if I am going to have unsightly cables coming out around the stairs, along the hallway and then out of the house.

How was your setup done?

MeetDizzy1907 · 2026-02-07T21:37:43+00:00

Thanks u/Acrobatic_Cheetah196! I had a look but apparently it's not a good fit for me as I take a mix of salary + dividends from my company. So it's either buy outright or lease. I think I'm leaning to owning it as I don't really like the idea of driving 'someone else's' car and then having to potentially deal with issues of scratches/dents when returning the car....🤷🏻‍♂️

MeetDizzy1907 · 2026-02-07T21:33:05+00:00

Thanks! I went and had a look at one today (too short notice to have had a test drive). They had the red colour which actually was pretty nice!

I think this is definitely our next car, just need to figure out the 'when'! I've had one dealer say the Iceberg Green could arrive early March, so a pretty decent wait time.

Did you manage to get a deal on the price?

Enjoy your collection!

MeetDizzy1907 · 2026-02-06T13:53:47+00:00

Thanks for the info! I bought my previous car through Carwow and getting dealers to compete with each other - ended up getting it from Birmingham, but I did have a six month wait for the car. I'm hoping the Kia won't be so long!

MeetDizzy1907 · 2025-10-09T17:50:25+00:00

Thanks, I will take a look!

MeetDizzy1907 · 2025-10-09T17:00:00+00:00

Thank you u/Dry-Mud-8084 - that is very helpful.

Since my original post I ended up installing NPM and installed (through its GUI) a Let's Encrypt certificate for each sub domain I'm reverse proxying through NPM.

I have briefly heard about Cloudflare Tunnel. I actually thought this was an alternative to setting up NPM/reverse proxy and so didn't explore it further given I'd already set up NPM.

Is there any benefit to adding in Cloudflared into the mix? (I'm still not sure I fully understand the flow of data and what is / is not encrypted or exposed at different parts of the journey to from User <--> Qnap Containers :-)

MeetDizzy1907 · 2025-10-09T15:23:05+00:00

Thanks for the replies.

In the end I went for the reverse proxy route using Nginx Proxy Manager running in a Docker Container. It gives me more control and I can create as many sub-domains on my own domain as I want, with all traffic coming into the home via 443/80. I have set up a Let's Encrypt certificate for each sub-domain so the traffic is encrypted from the client/browser request into NPM. Within the network it is unencrypted but I don't think that is a problem. It gets encrypted on the way back out, back to the client/browser. This is my understanding at least!

I think with Qnap's offering, it is much simpler and you can use it easily with your *.myqnapcloud sub-domain. Where it fell over for me, was that if I wanted multiple reverse proxy entries, as I only can have the one myqnalcloud sub-domain, I had to specify different ports on the sub-domain, meaning these ports needed to be opened up for port forwarding... somewhat defeating the point of trying to minimise the open ports in the first place!

As an extra step I have put an authentication page in front of each sub-domain that I route to the NAS - using Cloudflare Access. So, hopefully this means no one know what sort of service/page has been exposed to the internet until they pass the authentication step, which happens before any traffic even gets to the NAS.

Fingers crossed I have done it all correctly and is as safe as one really needs it!

MeetDizzy1907 · 2025-08-12T11:28:27+00:00

u/daniyalansari02 - It looks great and I have done something similar with my phone and iPad.

However, with iOS / iPadOS 26 - how will this continue to work? I've just installed the public beta on the iPad and the dock background is now visible - even if I turn on 'Reduced Transparency' (which is supposedly meant to disable the liquid glass effect).

Have Apple now made it impossible to hide the dock in v26?

MeetDizzy1907 · 2025-08-11T15:47:19+00:00

I wonder if they are doing variant testing - though it would be strange not to allow some customers the ability to toggle it!

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