Speed and heating are range killers on motorway, if you can bear it turn off heating and drop behind lorry at 60mph or just under and you can hit summer range even on cold days. Just wrap up warm. I'd politely disagree wrt heating. In my 2.5 years of ID3-ing I've come to the conclusion that on Moto...

Near summer range with the high temps this weekend!

Video here from Tesla Bjorn where they open up the ‘sealed’ rear drum brakes on a 48k km id3. All looks in great condition - no issues/faults.

I find the guide on the EV database pretty spot on. https://ev-database.org/uk/car/1202/Volkswagen-ID3-Pro Real Range between 155 - 320 mi City - Cold Weather 210 mi Highway - Cold Weather 155 mi Combined - Cold Weather 180 mi City - Mild Weather 320 mi Highway - Mild Weather 200 mi Combined - Mild ...

Worth remembering that the ACC response is also governed by the car mode... in ECO mode its far more relaxed (brakes more gently, accelerates more gently) than standard mode (or whatever its called).

Holy smokes!

Excellent! Good to hear a good news from VW warranty repairs!

Ebay. I bet you'll find one in the right colour too...

And the theft of the modules. That would be hard. You have to disconnect and lower the battery pack itself (200kg?) then undo c.50 bolts around the top edge of the pack to open it - then remove the main fuse/control boxes and then you can start to disconnect individual modules. Not something that c...

Yeah its happened to me a couple of times. Always seems to be when I NEED to have 90 or 100% rather than when its a routine top up!

TBH I don't quite trust it for 'essential' charges and revert to a timed charge within the IO hours....

It has been reliable for the last 6-8 weeks though....

I’ve had no issues in 30 months or so of ownership. As Sidehaas says - switch off the auto adjust speed and it may alert you to a new or false speed limit but won’t stop you! BTW - the hardware and software isn’t just for the ID family - it’s been in ICE VW’s for years. Lots of miles of experience a...

Yup. Mood music has not been positive for 4.0 for the rest of us… you never know though.

There was an OBD coding hack for it I tried an age ago that sort of worked but I never tried it in anger! Let alone code it up whilst doing 70 on the way to a rapid

I do wish VW would "trust" us with a battery preheat option we could push ten min before fast charging... They could easily make it idiot proof (only works within a certain temp range etc..) and could quite realistically halve the time spent charging..

Thats good - to get an appointment so fast. FYI - if its a bad fault - then calling VW assist and getting your car towed to garage means they are supposed to look at it within 48 hours (not until they want to).. Also a hire car is then arranged directly via VW assist rather than the garage (which ca...

Book it into your nearest Vw dealer. Likely you’ll have to wait a few weeks/months for an appointment. Then hopefully they fix it. You’ll need to ask about a courtesy car etc..

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230 miles today all in sub/around zero and heavy snow… lots of motorway and 4-5 25 min trips with 30-60 min in between. 2.9m/kw. of note after 1 hour of 70mph on the motorway battery temp only 6 degrees… Stopped for a quick charge at 19% 50kw… :( but as the battery warmed this went up to 70kw when I...

There were some on the ID Facebook page last winter. Fabric - with magnetic seal to car.

I’d argue that all the deg we’ve seen on id3’s so far is age related not to do with charging practices. I’ve not seen an example - even with high miles and loads of DC charging where it’s lost more than 10%. Bear in mind the id3 is three years old now - and if there were a problem with degradation i...

Yes if you can charge at home for cheap rates its much less of an issue.