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by sausageroll
Fri Dec 31, 2021 8:29 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Anyone use Iron X or similar?
Replies: 11
Views: 2456

Re: Anyone use Iron X or similar?

Better off with the usual snow foam, rinse, clay glove (or bar, if worse), wash, seal with wax etc

I wouldn't want to use Iron X near the bodywork, personally. They say it's safe on bodywork, but I doubt they'd accept any liability if it did any harm, either
by sausageroll
Thu Dec 30, 2021 11:27 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Dwindling battery!
Replies: 39
Views: 7696

Re: Dwindling battery!

Thank u very much for explaining that it is normal for my car’s battery to go less far in the winter. I didn’t know that! Fossil-fuel cars are the same in winter, too - people just have never really given it the same attention, really. While I am here please advise re not charging to 100%. Do u all...
by sausageroll
Thu Dec 30, 2021 10:15 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Volkswagen sent unfinished electric car on the street and saved billions in climate fines from the EU
Replies: 6
Views: 2171

Re: Volkswagen sent unfinished electric car on the street and saved billions in climate fines from the EU

I could name hundreds of models from various makes that had fixes, recalls, or component redesigns after their first year of production due to being, basically, useless or severely impaired. And here's one from today for models which are over a year old: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-598188...
by sausageroll
Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:33 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Volkswagen sent unfinished electric car on the street and saved billions in climate fines from the EU
Replies: 6
Views: 2171

Re: Volkswagen sent unfinished electric car on the street and saved billions in climate fines from the EU

"Unfinished" is hyperbolic at best, and clickbait at worst. It's hardly like there were doors missing or components unfitted. The 'unfinished' phrase should be interpreted as 'unrefined', but that's been the case for basically every car ever built. The first ones are never truly refined be...
by sausageroll
Tue Dec 28, 2021 11:54 am
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Delivery time
Replies: 7812
Views: 1597587

Re: Delivery time

Update on my Family PP... Build week originally 40 after an placed end of July. Received little to no info even when I requested it from the dealer but was told last week it's now at port. Anyone know if there is a way of tracking the freight shipping? Have a feeling dealer won't let me know where ...
by sausageroll
Mon Dec 27, 2021 12:07 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Idiot questions
Replies: 20
Views: 5171

Re: Idiot questions

Interesting read. Not got my id.3 but I'm reading here that if you put it in Park and get out then it switches itself off. I blow my tyres up with a pump that plugs into the cigarette lighter (or whatever it is called these days). Is there still a such a place to plug in such a tyre pump and if so ...
by sausageroll
Mon Dec 27, 2021 11:22 am
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Idiot questions
Replies: 20
Views: 5171

Re: Idiot questions

Sherlock wrote: Mon Dec 27, 2021 10:38 am The manual I see when I use the link is shown as 'Edition 11.2020'.

I bought my ID.3 in December 2020 so this makes some sense for me, but is this really what people who have bought more recently get?
June 2021 for my November build
by sausageroll
Fri Dec 24, 2021 10:26 am
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Delivery time
Replies: 7812
Views: 1597587

Re: Delivery time

Smitten wrote: Thu Dec 23, 2021 8:46 pm Congratulations to Newfie and Sausageroll!!

Thanks!

Pleasantly surprised with the quality of the free key tag and USB lead

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Somewhat fortunate, based on reports, that it also came with Contis

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by sausageroll
Thu Dec 23, 2021 6:22 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Delivery time
Replies: 7812
Views: 1597587

Re: Delivery time

Picked mine up this afternoon, so it's now officially 'delivered'
by sausageroll
Sun Dec 19, 2021 11:15 am
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Delivery time
Replies: 7812
Views: 1597587

Re: Delivery time

All the dealers are as good or bad as each other in my opinion, when I ordered in September one dealer told me that they have been told to say June 22 for deliveries but I rung around and got a jan one but might at this rate end up been June, also at the time I was told BMW’s in America are been so...
by sausageroll
Sat Dec 18, 2021 10:04 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Delivery time
Replies: 7812
Views: 1597587

Re: Delivery time

Power train and body assembly are different but they come together at some point and the body must have the VIN stamped on it. Once that is going down the line it’s a continuous production line. I really don’t think it’s possible to skip things like screens. The dash is one piece. There are videos ...
by sausageroll
Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:20 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Delivery time
Replies: 7812
Views: 1597587

Re: Delivery time

If anyone fancies a Tour Pro there might be one available sooner rather than later as we've just cancelled our order after reaching the end of our tether with VW and in particular the dealers in Basingstoke. Here's the last email from them when I asked them to confirm where the car is in the build ...
by sausageroll
Sat Dec 18, 2021 8:24 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Delivery time
Replies: 7812
Views: 1597587

Re: Delivery time

I just can't believe the utter lack of any form of communication from VW or its dealership network, considering that they anticipate the shortages lasting well into 2022 and possibly 2023. You'd have thought by now they would have figured out a way to actually talk to their customers, instead they ...
by sausageroll
Sat Dec 18, 2021 3:10 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Delivery time
Replies: 7812
Views: 1597587

Re: Delivery time

I think mine's been in the UK a week now but I've yet to be notified it's at the dealers or anything. Assume it's likely to be after Christmas but before 31st
by sausageroll
Sat Dec 18, 2021 2:29 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Front fog lights
Replies: 12
Views: 4307

Re: Front fog lights

Scratch wrote: Sat Dec 18, 2021 10:53 am
smuj wrote: Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:52 am Like others have posted not something I use. However, not sure whether the following could be classed as fog lights. Not bothered trying them out though.
Does that apply to all models?
Poor weather lights are only on the Matrix setup
by sausageroll
Fri Dec 17, 2021 10:59 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: King Red - Bi Colour Wheel Trim
Replies: 29
Views: 8047

Re: King Red - Bi Colour Wheel Trim

Still amazes me the VW sell a car with plastic wheel trims. Kind of amazes me how bothered people are by it, to be honest. Lots of advantages for steelies with wheel trims, whilst the only benefit of alloys is the aesthetic. Suppose they maybe make sense on the base version…. on a £39500 car, I don...
by sausageroll
Fri Dec 17, 2021 8:20 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: King Red - Bi Colour Wheel Trim
Replies: 29
Views: 8047

Re: King Red - Bi Colour Wheel Trim

andrewparker wrote: Sun Dec 12, 2021 10:22 am Still amazes me the VW sell a car with plastic wheel trims.
Kind of amazes me how bothered people are by it, to be honest.

Lots of advantages for steelies with wheel trims, whilst the only benefit of alloys is the aesthetic.
by sausageroll
Thu Dec 16, 2021 10:15 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Delivery time
Replies: 7812
Views: 1597587

Re: Delivery time

Newfie wrote: Thu Dec 16, 2021 5:18 pm Popped in to the dealers this afternoon to find my car had just come off the transporter.

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Just the angle of your photo, but I had a panic for you then - it looked like you'd taken a photo saying it had accidentally fallen off the transporter at first!
by sausageroll
Thu Dec 16, 2021 10:10 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: ID.3 U.K. Delivery Times
Replies: 156
Views: 54170

Re: ID.3 U.K. Delivery Times

This doesn't sound like great news for cars arriving via Sheerness: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/amp/dock-strike-threatens-imports-of-audi-vw-and-skoda-cars-259223/ Might explain a previous post saying that ID.3’s are all going through Grimsby, though? And remarkable that Unite is ta...
by sausageroll
Wed Dec 15, 2021 9:14 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Delivery time
Replies: 7812
Views: 1597587

Re: Delivery time

Also, this was a poor job on hiding the number plate, just FYI... :lol: I'd also have thought it'd gone through PDI if it has plates, as the dealer puts them on (and the last thing they'd do is get a salesman to make/fit them!*) *or, in reality, the last thing a salesman would offer to do! I spotte...