Philip's bZ4X

Don't let Charlie find out, but I've had it treated with a 5 year Ceramic coat! 😉 Whether it last 5 years is another question but it should make the beast easier to clean for a few months ...

Which, inconveniently, brings me to the first part of the review - Dealer Satisfaction:

We really don't get much choice in the matter - particularly out here in the countryside. My nearest dealer is 20 miles away and the next 40 miles away but merely a different branch of the same franchise so it's them or not  a Toyota. And to be fair they haven't screwed up anything too badly and generally get 7 out of 10 for standard of service. They managed to live down to expectation:

• The test drive experience was good - they simply gave me the car for a test drive, twice and let me decide that I wanted to buy one.
• I then could have any colour that I wanted just so long as it was grey! The deal at the time was another Toyota attempt to shift UK stock - there's no problem with that. Now that I have the car and Certificate of Conformity I can see that it was manufactured on 13/10/2023 so has been sat at Burnaston for the best part of a year and is, in effect, last year's spec rather than the current one - this probably has more benefits than downsides but more later once I've lived with it a little longer.
• There's a patch on the paintwork that is either a well dried sticky residue of surface damage from bird lime. Either way, it should have been sorted before I ever spotted it at handover - and preferably before they carefully preserved the damage beneath a ceramic coat. It'll have to go back for them to sort that.
• I order the Protection+ Pack (rubber mats and flaps) which appears on the invoice but not on the car. It'll have to go back for them to sort that too.
• It's got plastic trim around the wheel arches which extends across the doors - the trim on the offside rear passenger door doesn't quite sit flush (while the others do) so they'll have to sort that too.