[Willooow]

Does it bother anyone that there is an image of the Niro on the Infotainment battery screen instead of the EV6...
I didn't notice it until my son pointed it out to me and now its bugging me...

 

[Sam_K]

Do you mean like in this video? I put the link to this video at the point where it shows the Niro on the infotainment screen.

I noticed it immediately when I was watching this video and it would annoy me if I had an EV6.

 

[Willooow]

Maybe they will eventually update it? Or am I asking too much from Kia?

 

[Sam_K]

Maybe they will eventually update it? Or am I asking too much from Kia?

Possibly. People are also asking for them to make the color of the car in the surround view monitor match the color of your car because apparently now it doesn't.

 

[Willooow]

Possibly. People are also asking for them to make the color of the car in the surround view monitor match the color of your car because apparently now it doesn't.

I'm guessing this would be more difficult since you'd have to tweak the software for the different colors of the car. I've had other Kias and it's never matched. Best solution is to buy a white car

 

[MarkAusTX]

I'm guessing this would be more difficult since you'd have to tweak the software for the different colors of the car. I've had other Kias and it's never matched. Best solution is to buy a white car

Yeah i had the 2020 Sonata in white and it matched. However one day after the mobile app update on my phone the car shown went from white to black.

 

[tonester]

Maybe they will eventually update it? Or am I asking too much from Kia?

You're asking too much from Kia--LOL j/k! I say that slightly tongue-in-cheek because the SVM in my 2018 Kia Optima doesn't know that the color of my car is black...

I'm guessing this would be more difficult since you'd have to tweak the software for the different colors of the car. I've had other Kias and it's never matched. Best solution is to buy a white car

Wonder if it's possible to decode the paint color from a VIN; not quite the same scenario, but my 2004 GMC Yukon uses CDROM-based nav software; when the disc is loaded into the headunit of my GMC, the nav bootup screen shows the GMC logo; the same exact disc when inserted into a Cadillac (Escalade) that uses the same nav headunit will display the Cadillac logo upon bootup, and when the nav headunit gets reset for whatever reason (e.g., dead battery) it'll initially boot up with the Delphi logo before the headunit realizes that it's in a GMC and then subsequently displays the GMC logo after every bootup.

 

[Sam_K]

Wonder if it's possible to decode the paint color from a VIN;

I thought of this too when I responded earlier but after checking the 2022 EV6 VIN decoder that Kia submitted to the NHTSA, there appears to be no digit for color. Go to page 2 of the PDF file in that link for the VIN decoding details.

 

[Willooow]

I can accept the color being different. It is what it is...but why an image of a Niro....why...

 

[Ken7]

Possibly. People are also asking for them to make the color of the car in the surround view monitor match the color of your car because apparently now it doesn't.

They’re asking the same thing for the $169,000 Lucid Dream, so don’t feel too badly. 😆

 

[ppheijnen]

Do you mean like in this video? I put the link to this video at the point where it shows the Niro on the infotainment screen.

I noticed it immediately when I was watching this video and it would annoy me if I had an EV6.

Aai now I will be annoyed as well. Hope they allow to choose a ev6 body

 

[Willooow]

My heart sinks every time I drive by a real Kia Niro...

 

[robby-d]

My heart sinks every time I drive by a real Kia Niro...

At least it's not a Soul

 

[Sam_K]

At least it's not a Soul

Or a Soul with human sized hamsters in it.

 

[378SCDC]

Vehicle color matching is not a complex problem - Tesla has had color matching for years. It's a service center programmable value, much like the wheel option, FSD, etc. Just lazy programming/design on Kia (and pretty much every other manufacturer).

 

[Cnsheets]

My 360 camera view matches my vehicle color. 😜