Costco only offers the Turanza, which I currently have on.

Thanks for the Black Circles tip - they offer Vredestein Wintrac at a reasonable price. Anyone got views on those?

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Andreas

New better version comes out.. happens it's life and technology. When to buy? Early adopters often get a poor deal, My concern now though is the commitment to the parts of the older cars that can be updated, yes I'm moaning about the lack of any OTA update still. The responses I am getting from ema...

Bringing this back, I am in awe at the meltdowns over on Facepalm with people complaining that (checks notes) new MYs that are sold at (checks notes again) higher prices get additional spec items, and that there are some who are feeling betrayed.

It's a funny old world.

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Andreas

Hackney, and it gets proper cold here as its further east!

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Andreas

So local Islington lot doesn't have any winter tyres for the ID.3. KwikFit only offers the CrossClimate2, which is not a winter tyre. Marshall's isn't calling back. The Michelin website tells me I can get the Alpin 6 at ATS Euromaster, but they only offer Goodyear(!). Or KwikFit, but they offer no w...

BeesKnees wrote: ↑Mon Nov 22, 2021 3:31 pm Fair enough,
Knew it was outside normal realms of probability.

Hope she won.

They did, had a good weekend with her team.

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Andreas

I'm not sure on this but unless you add ambient into the mix it's not a true comparison. I think if it's cold some energy is used to condition the batteries for charging. Car was preheated before I drove it over and not parked in a very cold location (underground car park with higher ambient temper...

I doubt that, unless your daughter was also having a mud-fest at Old Elizabethans cricket ground.

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Andreas

Minor update on this. Are all UK VW dealers awful? Is that in their job description?

My chosen service provider not calling back, the place where we bought the car just being quite standoffish.

I can see why Tesla didn't bother with dealers.

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Andreas

I haven't looked at this. Your calculation does imply zero degradation but is the calculation really as simple as that? I don't want to look for bones in bannans but feel there is something missing. I cant fault the logic though. I will do the same on my next charge. Dave I agree it feels like I'm ...

Li-Ion batteries degrade over time, more so if you treat them harshly (full discharge/100% recharge cycles, constant DC charging). I paid some attention yesterday, as I put the car on the Source London charger at 20%. Given that it was free after four hours (overnight cut-off), I charged to 90% as I...

Thanks! It depends on the region, in some regions snow chains are mandatory regardless of your tire I think?

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Andreas

Well if you read the Facepalm posts on all the ills of the ID.3 it is curious anyway. This weekend saw very heavy use of the car, including a roundtrip on Friday to the West Country (290 miles) and two football games in the frozen North (Barnet and Hendon) on Saturday and Sunday, seeing 70 and 50 mi...

The app let's you see the initial state of charge (SoC) and the one at end. Take note of it and then: "End SoC - Starting SoC * battery size / 100 = kWh delivered", e.g. (100%-21%)*77kWh/100%=60.83kWh

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Andreas

Screen Shot 2021-11-21 at 1.19.36 PM.jpg Here's an Ionity charging curve from the summer that covers similar SoC ranges. It just isn't that stable. I could post others, but they never are. I'm just wondering if there is some control software difference in the charging unit, or what? All the best An...

As noted in the post, the order of charge was always Gridserve followed by Ionity. Chippenham the only one where I went for Ionity straight away as they were free when I got there. From memory, even at lower SoC the Ionity curves always looked like this, and never as straight as the Gridserve ones. ...

scott28tt wrote: ↑Sat Nov 20, 2021 5:24 pm Gridserve was at a lower starting SoC, go back and reverse the order in which you do them for a better comparison

All fixed and added the other three curves for good measure.

Thoughts, observations?

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Andreas

No sorry, just the way the pictures uploaded. Gridserve was first, and this was after driving ca. 60 miles at 70mph and with a preheated car (programmed departure but not on charger).

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Andreas

I did back to back charging on Gridserve and Ionity twice yesterday, as an experiment, and because I was hoping Ionity would charge faster (it's also a bit cheaper for me). Today I checked the charge curves, and in both cases (only one set posted here), it appears to me that grid serve has a much mo...

I understand that vehicles built from 1 Dec will have 3.0 installed as standard and that it will come as an OTA in the near future. Given the 'fun' we all had with 2.3, what are the bets that they will apply lessons learnt and make the update more straightforward this time (presuming they can)? Is t...