11 hours ago, Pib said:

Curiosity questions: when ITAC turns itself off/driver did not turn it off (like with the A/C preconditioning/seat ventilation talked above) does it eventually turn itself back on when needed? Or, once turned off (either automatically or manually) it stays off until "manually" turned back on again?

I've never seen it turn on by itself. But I've seen it turn off.

This cars needs an update to fix this, iTAC should always stay on unless we manually switch it off.

I did a lot of fast charging in my Seal because Rever gave me 30,000 THB charging credit and I used 2/3rds of it.

I came to the conclusion that I could turn on the air con remotely fairly reliably, but turning on the seat ventilation made the car do weird things, IIRC it turned on the car ready to drive, unfolded the mirrors I think too. Ultimately, I worked out that the badly worded message that came up when turning on the air con was actually a warning that it wasn't cooling the battery as effectively as before and after that preferred not to sit in the car watching Netflix whilst fast charging.

2 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

I did a lot of fast charging in my Seal because Rever gave me 30,000 THB charging credit and I used 2/3rds of it.

I came to the conclusion that I could turn on the air con remotely fairly reliably, but turning on the seat ventilation made the car do weird things, IIRC it turned on the car ready to drive, unfolded the mirrors I think too. Ultimately, I worked out that the badly worded message that came up when turning on the air con was actually a warning that it wasn't cooling the battery as effectively as before and after that preferred not to sit in the car watching Netflix whilst fast charging.

I do remote start the air conditioning on my Seal quite often and about a year ago, after a car or app update it would only start the air and not the car itself.

I took this to be some sort of safety measure, albeit without any info on reason, or just a glitch, wasn’t sure.

Later on I learned that by starting air remotely then opening the seat ventilation via the app also the car would also start ( lights flash and wing mirrors pop out as had done originally ).

I figured it was unnecessary to start the car but recently have learned ( haven’t actually checked it ) that if you start the car as well as air conditioning via app then the front vents will open to improve air flow and accelerate the air conditioning/circulation.

I have recently started enabling the seat ventilation after remotely starting air con via the app but if it does actually improve air con performance i couldn’t say.

All in all it is a strange situation and the app needs some reconfiguration to make people aware of this action or add a tip message.

Just opening the front vents upon starting the air conditioning remotely would make life simpler and in theory improve air conditioning performance without having the motor running/lights flashing/wing mirrors popping out unnecessarily.

On 3/7/2026 at 10:42 AM, Andrew Dwyer said:

without having the motor running

You still live in the ICE age - literally and figuratively speaking........ the motors in an electric car could only run if you were on jacks

45 minutes ago, mistral53 said:

You still live in the ICE age - literally and figuratively speaking........ the motors in an electric car could only run if you were on jacks

Pretty sure you understood what i meant.

On 2/20/2026 at 9:10 AM, Andrew Dwyer said:

I guess that is the big question

The Seal’s sales took a nosedive in mid 2025 and dealers started offering the Activity cars ( Test drive and publicity cars, usually 2023 models ) at a healthy discount.

Reported lack of stock all pointed to a clear out to either make way for the rapidly rising Sealion 7 or an updated Seal, a MY 2025 version started to appear in some countries ( Malaysia and Aus ? ) with new wheels and an electric sunshade amongst other small upgrades.

Then towards the end of 2025 Thailand Seal sales started to increase again but probably received stock from countries getting the MY 2025 updated models.

Currently I think stock of Seals in Thailand is almost diminished with only a few of the cheaper model Dynamic remaining in dealers showrooms and being pushed on FB pages.

The Seal in its current Thailand variant is unlikely to reappear and i also think any upgraded model, as being offered to the U.K., is also unlikely to head this way, Thailand has cut its ties with the Seal and if a minor update had been on the cards it would have been filtered in gradually.

BYD is focusing on the future and the Seal, as exciting as it was ( and still is) when first released hesitated at the fence and lost momentum here.

Lovers of a BYD sporty saloon might be surprised with a Sealion 9 or 10 who knows ? there is always IM 5 or 7X GT to tempt.

The EV world is moving at such a fast rate now that it makes you cautious to sign up when something faster, cheaper, rangier (?) and more exciting might be just round the corner.

Never been a “ speed freak “ and at touching 65 am looking more towards comfort than blistering acceleration but the Seal showed me what is available for my budget and i LIKED it !

The Seal is dead …… Long live the Seal 🦭

The Electric Viking is saying the Seal is being replaced by the just released Seal 07 (not Sealion 7, but Seal 07). He says it will be sold in China and "export/international" markets."

1 hour ago, Pib said:

The Electric Viking is saying the Seal is being replaced by the just released Seal 07 (not Sealion 7, but Seal 07). He says it will be sold in China and "export/international" markets."

Yeah I saw this before, would have preferred to see more range by keeping the 82.5 kw battery but in blade 2 form.

Using a higher density ( blade 2 ) but then reducing the size ( 82.5 to 69 kw ) and ending up with around the same range doesn’t make sense to me.

The higher charging rate is welcome but only if we see new high speed chargers appearing, currently I can get 150 kWh from a Spark 180 kw charger, albeit for a short time.

With all these stories of the minor updated Seal, Seal 07 and Seal 08 will have to wait to see what actually, if an, becomes available here.