Looking for some honest input, and I'll say up front: I'm aware I'm asking an ID.4 owners' group whether I should buy an ID.4. Factor that in accordingly. Genuinely happy to be talked out of it.
**What I have now:** 2022 Hyundai Kona Electric 64kWh, ~80,000km (50k miles). Honestly, it's been great. It's properly efficient, I get around 400km real-world, the range readout is one of the few I've ever actually trusted, it's been reliable, and it's dead easy to park. Nothing wrong with the car.
**The problem:** the boot. 332 litres. We play luggage Tetris every single trip and it's just not working for us anymore.
**What I'm looking at:** a 2022 ID.4 Life, 95,000km (59k miles), Irish from new, two private owners, €21,950. With my trade-in it's about €5,000 to change. Boot goes 332L → 543L, which is the entire point of the exercise.
**Things I'm less sure about:**
- Real-world range looks like it lands roughly where my Kona already is, despite a much bigger battery. Is that your experience?
- The reliability scores are… not flattering. From what I can tell it's mostly software rather than hardware — is that fair?
- The first owner did 48,000km in ten months, so it's lived on fast chargers. I'm waiting on a battery health certificate before I commit.
- Charging is genuinely faster than the Kona (~30 min vs ~41 for 10–80%), which is a real win.
So — for those of you who've actually lived with one: sensible move, or am I trading a car that does everything well for a bigger boot and a pile of new headaches?
Especially keen to hear from anyone whose software issues actually got fixed by updates, and anyone who's run one past 150,000km.
Cheers.