OXVA XLIM Pro 2 DNA Pod Kit

The Xlim Pro 2 DNA uses OXVA's XLIM pods, and it takes the whole family: the Stainless Steel pods, the V3 pods and the EZ pods all drop straight in, so you are never short of options. Each pod is 2ml and refillable with a built-in coil and a top-fill silicone port: lift the stopper, drip your juice in and close it, with no need to prise the pod out or rebuild anything. The kit comes with a 0.6ohm pod for a warmer, slightly looser draw and a 0.8ohm pod for a tighter mouth-to-lung style.

Because the pods carry a built-in coil, you simply swap the whole pod when the flavour tires rather than changing a coil. They are cheap, sold everywhere and snap in with a magnet, so restocking is quick and clean. Fill it with any nic salt for a satisfying MTL vape, or a higher-VG juice on the lower-resistance pod for a vapier, restricted lung draw. The pods are the same ones used across the Xlim range, so they carry over if you own another.

A side airflow slider fine-tunes the draw without changing the pod. Close it down for a tight, cigarette-like mouth-to-lung pull, or open it up for a looser, airier restricted direct-lung draw, so one device covers both styles. It has a side fire button to prime the coil before you pull, plus and minus buttons to set the wattage up to 30W, and the usual five-click lock to stop it firing in a pocket. Beginners can leave it on a sensible setting and ignore the numbers.

The 1300mAh battery is solid for a pod this slim and sees most people through a day. It charges over USB-C at 5V/2A and tops up quickly, with the exact level on the HD screen so you are never caught out. Because it recharges and refills, the only things you ever replace are the pod and the juice, never a battery or a whole device, which is what makes a refillable so much cheaper to live with than a disposable.

There is very little to it. Fill the pod, let it soak, set the wattage and vape, then press Replay once you find a puff you love. The one habit worth keeping is giving a fresh pod a couple of minutes before the first hard pull so the coil wicks and you avoid a burnt taste, though the anti-dry-hit AI helps here too.

The kit is £27.99, and after that you only buy pods and juice. XLIM pods are cheap and sold everywhere, and one pod lasts a good while before the coil tires, so the ongoing cost is low. Fill it from a 10ml nic salt for a couple of pounds and a pod-full costs pennies, far below prefilled pods or disposables. Over a month of daily use the saving against a bar-a-day habit runs into tens of pounds, which clears the slightly higher up-front price of the DNA chip easily.

Against a disposable it is no contest: you buy the device once and then only pay for pods and juice, where a bar gets binned every couple of days. You bin far less too, just a small pod now and then. It is the same money-saving logic as any refillable pod kit, only here you also get an Evolv DNA chip and Flavour Replay that you simply do not get on a cheaper pod.

The Xlim Pro 2 DNA is reliable, and the anti-dry-hit AI prevents many of the usual pod complaints. The few snags that remain trace to a pod that has not soaked, the airflow or wattage, or the lock.