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by duckworthsj
Fri Dec 22, 2023 3:38 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: ID.3 58 KW range
Replies: 13
Views: 14022

Re: ID.3 58 KW range

From our experience, as someone else has said, the biggest impacts are: outside temperature; wind direction; and your speed. Now with average daytime the temperature around 3-6C the consumption is high. Also in summer at more 35C we get a similar impact! (ignoring air con). Just as with ICE, the ran...
by duckworthsj
Fri Dec 22, 2023 3:21 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: ID3 service
Replies: 6
Views: 4156

Re: ID3 service

For the ID3 'Service' also means software updates. So sounds a bit risky to me.
by duckworthsj
Tue May 16, 2023 4:22 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Infotainment: Navigation app vs. We Charge app. Conflicting info on chargers?
Replies: 5
Views: 984

Re: Infotainment: Navigation app vs. We Charge app. Conflicting info on chargers?

Based on my unfortunately very bitter experience, I would basically forget both apps and use an Independent one.. Chargemap, Zap-Map.

Anything to do with VW and software is a pile of something you accidentally step in on the street.
by duckworthsj
Wed Mar 29, 2023 7:30 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: What is "VE: special goodwill 2023 I"??
Replies: 17
Views: 4672

Re: What is "VE: special goodwill 2023 I"??

Had the car nearly a week now. Very positive so far except for "Lane assist". Dorset country roads mean it feels like you are hitting a patch of ice every so often as the steering wheel twitches!!! Anyway it was not quite clear to me what features my Family Pro Performance has and doesn't...
by duckworthsj
Wed Mar 29, 2023 7:26 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Time to update software as part of recall
Replies: 6
Views: 3483

Re: Time to update software as part of recall

My car has been 'recalled' to get a new 12V battery and update the software. * the soonest appointment i was offered was 3 months away. * car has been in for four days.. they are still working on it and can't tell me when it will be ready. * no-one can tell me what additional benefits I will get fo...
by duckworthsj
Wed Mar 29, 2023 7:19 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: WeConnect ID app for route planning?
Replies: 12
Views: 2328

Re: WeConnect ID app for route planning?

Thanks for those suggestions, they mirror our own thoughts! We do plan to avoid motorways as much as possible but are wary of charger availability elsewhere. We may schlep through most of France (which we already know better) on the autoroutes and come off them nearer the south, but with the caveat...
by duckworthsj
Tue Mar 21, 2023 1:55 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: ID3 Software Update V3
Replies: 28
Views: 10231

Re: ID3 Software Update V3

VW have posted an update on the ID Driver's Club Facebook group. It's not very positive... "Dear all, We have been quiet regarding OTA for the past few weeks. That is something many of you have noticed and rightly criticized. While we may not have been very active here, a lot has been happenin...
by duckworthsj
Tue Jan 17, 2023 12:29 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Good car, crap infrastructure.
Replies: 12
Views: 1402

Re: Good car, crap infrastructure.

Totally agree. Despite other points view, you cannot trust the WeCharge app. The connection to the Navigation 'to send a journey' is hardly ever working. Too many times the app has directed me to chargers that are not in service (broken of not open). You need to have a back-up app to check availabil...
by duckworthsj
Thu Jan 05, 2023 4:55 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Experiences on road trip from France to the North West UK and back again.
Replies: 2
Views: 709

Experiences on road trip from France to the North West UK and back again.

The following gives our experiences and perhaps some tips who plan to travel UK-France / vice verse. Our journey took us from our home in the Alsace to Calais, then to Folkestone via Eurotunnel; overnight in Folkestone; Folkestone to Blackburn (with a short visit to my daughter in North London); 3 n...
by duckworthsj
Thu Dec 29, 2022 6:50 am
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Charging at 3.5kW instead of 7kW
Replies: 16
Views: 9254

Re: Charging at 3.5kW instead of 7kW

This is a problem (again) with the VW infotainment software. Our charger in France started to do the same around May this year, when there was an over the air up date. The proof is our other non VW EV still works fine and I can set cheap rate charging times with 100% reliability and 6KW -6.5 KW char...
by duckworthsj
Wed Dec 28, 2022 3:46 pm
Forum: Faults & Technical
Topic: WeConnect App stop working … again? Anyone else got the same problem?
Replies: 2
Views: 1745

WeConnect App stop working … again? Anyone else got the same problem?

Travelling from France to UK on Boxing Day. WeConnect App was working the next day in the morning but stopped working at around mid-day. I can no longer see the charge status or start a charge via the app nor start the heating remotely. This is the answer I got from VW Sorry that you are currently u...
by duckworthsj
Sat Dec 24, 2022 2:55 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: "You need to log in again" notification spam
Replies: 13
Views: 13667

Re: "You need to log in again" notification spam

spookycookie wrote: Sat Dec 24, 2022 1:27 am G

ALso I notice that preheating the car has started heating the passanger chair instead of driver!
That's because you drive on the wrong side of the road ya
The driver seat is on the the left.
Dis ist ein Deutsche auto! :lol:

Happy Christmas and I hope your 'Brexited car' gets fixed. :D
by duckworthsj
Mon Dec 19, 2022 3:35 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Stored location disappeared
Replies: 19
Views: 5172

Re: Stored location disappeared

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It is fixed in 3.0.
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Good news..Thanks. I hope everyone who has 3.0 can now enjoy the car. I just have to persuade the garage to install 3.0.
by duckworthsj
Mon Dec 19, 2022 3:15 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: NOTES ON DRIVING AN ID3 ACROSS EUROPE
Replies: 7
Views: 2199

Re: NOTES ON DRIVING AN ID3 ACROSS EUROPE

Thanks for the story Fergus. Interesting. We will do a trip from the Alsace to the North West UK in a few weeks, so I will compare. I agree that the Chargemap app is very valuable for planning journeys. It is much more reliable than the WeCharge/ Connect app that has let me down on several occasions...
by duckworthsj
Mon Dec 19, 2022 3:00 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Stored location disappeared
Replies: 19
Views: 5172

Re: Stored location disappeared

My car has a stored location, my home, which I thought would be the right thing to do. However, if I plug in to this stored location, it completely ignores the instruction to charge to just 80%. I've looked at the online Manual (very slow) and can find no reason for this - On the car though I seem ...
by duckworthsj
Thu Dec 01, 2022 7:15 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Advise for charging when arriving in Folkestone area via Eurotunnel / Le Shuttle
Replies: 9
Views: 1800

Re: Advise for charging when arriving in Folkestone area via Eurotunnel / Le Shuttle

Thank you all for the tips.
I will try to write my experiences on this mega electric road trip.
by duckworthsj
Tue Nov 29, 2022 12:19 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: Advise for charging when arriving in Folkestone area via Eurotunnel / Le Shuttle
Replies: 9
Views: 1800

Advise for charging when arriving in Folkestone area via Eurotunnel / Le Shuttle

After Christmas we are travelling to the UK from France using Le shuttle and arriving late evening. Please does anyone got any advice for hotels in the Folkestone area or along the south coast which have charging facilities? Also any advice for charging at or around the Eurotunnel terminal in Calais...
by duckworthsj
Mon Nov 28, 2022 12:19 pm
Forum: Faults & Technical
Topic: Charging schedule being ignored
Replies: 21
Views: 12370

Re: Charging schedule being ignored

You just need to select which of the options you want to charge with when you stop the car: charge immediately, charge at preferred times, or charge for departure time. IME it simply defaults to charge immediately and prompts you to choose every time you turn the car off. It's not a fault. It's wor...
by duckworthsj
Tue Nov 15, 2022 8:49 am
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: 3.0 Software Update
Replies: 203
Views: 55179

Re: 3.0 Software Update

This is the problem. There was a general communication from VW France that 'there would be an update' - I think back in March. However it was probably arriving in my wife's email account.... with the 100s of special offers for clothes, shoes etc etc ;) .... so I guess she is not paying much attentio...
by duckworthsj
Mon Nov 14, 2022 6:21 pm
Forum: Main Volkswagen ID.3 chat
Topic: 3.0 Software Update
Replies: 203
Views: 55179

Re: 3.0 Software Update

[/quote] No concrete knowledge but there I think were suggestions a while back that the whole point of the 2.4 battery change was actually because VW were concerned that the original 12V batteries wouldn't manage the 3.0 OTA update - which if true would support that possibility. VW haven't commented...